XSLT Transformation of XML File

Question

I've written a simple XML Document that I am trying to transform with an XSLT file, but I get no results when I run the code. Here is my XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Employee xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
      xmlns="XSLT_MVC.Controllers">
  <ID>42</ID>
  <Name>Russ</Name>
</Employee>

And here is the XSLT file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
   <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
   xmlns:ex="XSLT_MVC.Controllers" >
   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

   <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:value-of select="ex:Employee/Name"/>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the code (from a C# console app) I am trying to run to perform the transform:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
using System.Xml.XPath;

namespace XSLT
{
class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        Transform();
    }

    public static void Transform()
    {
        XPathDocument myXPathDoc = new XPathDocument(@"docs\sampledoc.xml");
        XslTransform myXslTrans = new XslTransform();
        myXslTrans.Load(@"docs\new.xslt");

        XmlTextWriter myWriter = new XmlTextWriter(
            "results.html", null);

        myXslTrans.Transform(myXPathDoc, null, myWriter);

        myWriter.Close();
    }
}
}

When I run the code I get a blank html file. I think I may have problems with the namespaces, but am not sure. Can anyone help with this?

Answer 1

Would you just want to match on Employee? And then select name from that? Also, I've noticed your XSLT specifies an output of XML rather than HTML.

Answer 2

The solution to this problem turned out to be adding namespace to both elems: select="ex:Employee/ex:Name", as Steven Majewski suggested in his comment above. He hasn't posted this as an answer, so I am posting it.