Dot '.' in XML-Tags / Transforming w. XSLT

Question

Hi,

I've got an xml which shoule be transformed using XSLT but there are "." in the Tag and in cause of that it doesn't work. But the . is allowed in XML-Tags. Can anybody give me a hint on transforming such a file: XML:

<root.element>
   <test.element>Hello World</test.element>
</root.element>

XSLT:

<xsl:template match="/">
   <test><xsl:value-of select="root.element/test.element"/></test>
</xsl:template>

Thanks for your help.

marc

Answer 1

xsltproc (libxslt) transforms it properly. But you may try to push it in predicate:

<xsl:value-of select="node()[name()='test.element']"/>

Answer 2

It should work. Tried it with the MS XSLT parser and it works okay.

I did wonder if the problem is in the XPath expression as the dot character has special meaning in XPath, but seems okay.

What is the exact error?