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xsl unwanted next element - read attributes from tag and sub tag

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THe XSLT processor you are using may have a bug, or you haven't provided the real xslt code and xml document.

The provided XSLT code fragment when included in a complete stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
     <xsl:for-each select="data/pics/pic">
            <div>
                <a>
                    <xsl:attribute name="href">
                        <xsl:value-of select="@href" />
                    </xsl:attribute>
                    <img>
                        <xsl:attribute name="src">
                           <xsl:value-of select="@src" />
                        </xsl:attribute>
                    </img>
                </a>
            </div>
        </xsl:for-each>
  </html>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

and applied on the provided XML document:

<data>
    <pics>
        <pic href="pics\pic05.jpg" src="pics\pic05.jpg"></pic>
        <pic href="pics\pic04.jpg" src="pics\pic04.jpg"></pic>
        <pic href="pics\pic03.jpg" src="pics\pic03.jpg"></pic>
        <pic href="pics\pic02.jpg" src="pics\pic02.jpg"></pic>
        <pic href="pics\pic01.jpg" src="pics\pic01.jpg"></pic>
    </pics>
</data>

produces the wanted, correct result:

<html>
    <div>
        <a href="pics\pic05.jpg">
            <img src="pics\pic05.jpg"/>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <a href="pics\pic04.jpg">
            <img src="pics\pic04.jpg"/>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <a href="pics\pic03.jpg">
            <img src="pics\pic03.jpg"/>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <a href="pics\pic02.jpg">
            <img src="pics\pic02.jpg"/>
        </a>
    </div>
    <div>
        <a href="pics\pic01.jpg">
            <img src="pics\pic01.jpg"/>
        </a>
    </div>
</html>

This transformation produced the same result when performed with several different XSLT processors, such as MSXML3,4,6, Saxon6.5 and AltovaXML (XML-SPY).

Do note, that the transformation can be refactored into a much shorter and readable one:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"&gt;
 <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
 <xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
     <xsl:for-each select="data/pics/pic">
            <div>
                <a href="{@href}">
                    <img src="{@src}"/>
                </a>
            </div>
        </xsl:for-each>
  </html>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Dimitre Novatchev 2010-09-21 16:37:03

+1 it was probably a cache problem, yet I liked your code

Asaf 2010-09-21 17:35:10

@Dimitre: +1 for Attribute Value Template recommendation.

Alejandro 2010-09-21 17:45:09

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