I have a XSLT 1.0 file to transform a XML file using XSLT 1.0. It works fine with IE 6.0, Firefox 3.0.11. However, PHP 5.2.6 XSL XSLTProcessor (providing XSLT 1.0) and Qt C++ QXmlQuery (providing only XSLT 2.0) give blank output.
I'm thinking of 2 ways:
Convert it to XSLT 2.0
Extract Firefox part to parse.
I prefer the 1st one. Please kindly advise how can I do it. The W3C specs seem to long for me to digest and the documents to transform are not that large. Thank you in advance!
If the whole spec is too long (???), start with the Changes section.
Also, XSLTProcessor is just a wrapper round libxslt, and unlikely to break on a valid XSLT 1.0 transform. I wonder if there is something funky about your transformation that you can fix without going to 2.0, or if there's something wrong with your XSLTProcessor deployment. Can you successfully apply other transformations?
XSLT should be pretty much backward compatibly, although obviously there are things you can use in XSLT 2.0 that make life much easier.
It sounds like you have something wrong in your XSLT, but as you don't provide anything for us to look at it is hard to say.
I would recommend getting hold of Kernow-for-Saxon - it is a great UI for testing XSLT (much better than trying to use Firefox or IE) and if you have errors in your XSLT then Saxon is one of the better XSLT processors for giving good errors to try to identify the cause.
http://kernowforsaxon.sourceforge.net/
I don't know anything about either the PHP or Qt processors, but it is possible there are errors in them that are not handling your XSLT correctly.
After much of hardwork and painful testing, I found the answer myself:
<html xslmn="..."> instead of just <html> (which IE & FF were able to transform successfully). For simplicity, I removed <!DOCTYPE and <attributes of the <html> tag.Thanks everyone for participating in the discussion.