XSL string replace function not working

[sridhar vedhanabatla]

Hi,


I am trying to use a simple xsl string replace function. I am trying to test my code by opening the xml in Mozilla/IE browser.

XML code:

<?xml version="2.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="replace.xsl"?>
<response>
<claim claimNumber="063544577" claimDescription="Costco Claims">
</claim>
</response>



XSL code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="response">
<xsl:apply-templates select="claim"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="claim">
<xsl:value-of select="replace(@claimDescription,"Costco","Walmart")"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>




Both browsers are showing same following error

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///C:/replace.xsl
Line Number 9, Column 51:


Let me know if there is anything that Im missing.


Thanks,

[Paul Clapham]

Well, there's a couple of problems there:

(1) There is no version 2.0 of XML, so declaring your XML as version="2.0" isn't going to do anything positive. Perhaps the browsers will ignore that error.

(2) There is a version 2.0 of XSLT, but the browsers don't support it. Perhaps they will ignore that and treat it as version 1.0, although technically they shouldn't.

But the main problem is exactly what the error message says it is. Here's line 9 of your XSLT document:

<xsl:value-of select="replace(@claimDescription,"Costco","Walmart")"/>

The problem is that after your select attribute, which looks like this:

select="replace(@claimDescription,"

there is a bunch more text which looks like this:

Costco","Walmart")

That text isn't in an attribute and you can't have loose text like that inside the start tag of an element. Of course that wasn't what you meant, was it? That could be avoided by better use of quoting.