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xsl:template match for xml with prefixes

Answer 1

+2 A:

You seem to be missing a namespace declaration for your bo prefix. This namespace will probably have to appear in your solution unless you use local-name()

edit (after namespace appeared!

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  xmlns:bo="http://somelongpathHere/process/bo"&gt;
    <xsl:output method="xml" version="2.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
....
<div>
  <xsl:value-of select="bo:C837ClaimParent/enterpriseClaim/patientAccountNumber" /></div>

Are you sure that enterpriseClaim is in a different namespace from C837ClaimParent?

peter.murray.rust 2009-10-26 22:39:47

you're right, I just added it

BlackTigerX 2009-10-26 22:41:10

sorry, I fixed the formatting problems, had many problems getting it right on the editor

BlackTigerX 2009-10-26 22:46:48

that did it, adding the namespace, now how do I avoid having to specify that prefix on every single select, is that efficient?

BlackTigerX 2009-10-26 23:00:50

You cannot avoid the prefix. In XML, it's possible to have a default namespace (with no prefix), but in XPath, no prefix always means empty namespace (i.e. with no URI). This does not affect efficiency in any way.

Pavel Minaev 2009-10-26 23:03:22

Answer 2

+1 A:

<xsl:stylesheet ... xmlns:bo="http://www.bo.org"&gt;
   ...
   <xsl:value-of select="/bo:C837ClaimParent/enterpriseClaim/patientAccountNumber" />
   ...
</xsl:stylesheet>

In general, my advice would be to read up on namespaces in XML and XPath.

Pavel Minaev 2009-10-26 22:43:52

I have tried that already, I get this error: "Reference to undeclared namespace prefix: 'bo'"

BlackTigerX 2009-10-26 22:45:57

Please note the `xmlns:bo` declaration on `<xsl:stylesheet>`!

Pavel Minaev 2009-10-26 22:54:40

@Pavel note he has added a different namespace for bo from yours

peter.murray.rust 2009-10-26 22:58:47

thanks Pavel, that was part of the issue

BlackTigerX 2009-10-26 23:07:41

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