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xsl:copy-of excluding parent

What code could I use in replace of <xsl:copy-of select="tag"/>, that when applied to the following xml.. <tag> content <a> b </a> </tag> ..would give the following result: ? content <a> b </a> I wish to echo out all the content therein, but excluding the parent tag Basically I have several sections of content in my ...

How to reverse date format in XSLT ?

I’m working on a site In that site some pages gets data from XML through XSLT. But the date is displayed as YYYY-MM-DD which ideally is taken from the XML which was in this format. I would like to convert this format to DD-MM-YYYY through XSLT or some other possible way. Please suggest me an idea to go ahead or provide me the code to a...

Reference XSL on a network

Hello, I'm embedding an HTML control in our CRM system, and using it to display a bit of XML. I want to format this using an XSL document. Everything works fine when I test it locally with a test.xml and a test.xsl, but of course when I change the XSL link to \servername\share\test.xsl then it doesn't work, I imagine because the locat...

Pass XML fragments as stylesheet paramters with lxml?

I'm starting to use lxml in Python for processing XML/XSL documents, and in general it seems very straight forward. However, I'm not able to find a way to pass an XML fragment as a stylesheet parameter when doing a translation. For example, in PHP it is possible to pass DOMDocument XML fragments as stylesheet parameters, so that one can...

How to display XSD validated XML using XSLT

I've been fighting with this for some time now, and haven't been able to find a clear answer to this yet. As I understand correctly I can store data in an XML file, validate it using an XSD and then display the data neatly using an XSLT. However I've been having issues trying to perform XPath queries to select the data I wish to displa...

Can java transform and validate the input at the same time?

I know how to call a java Transform and have it validate the output against a schema. What I want to do is: Validate the input and Transform it via xsl. I could: Create a Validator Validate and have it output a DOMResponse Pass the DOM to a Transformer. What I really want to do is have this done in one step and not have to create ...

XMLSpy 2009 Pro Debugger Won't Start

I'm using XMLSpy 2009 to write XSLT 1.0 documents. When I go to XSL -> Start Debugger, it opens the debugging view; however, when I click the Go (green arrow) button a message appears in the bottom of the screen that says "XSLT 1.0 Debugging Error: An error occurred while trying to start the debugger!" Any idea how to get around this? ...

Selecting Comments by their inner xml in xpath/xsl

Hi, Given the following xml document <root> <childnode0/> <childnode2/> <!--Comment1--> <childnode3/> <childnode4/> <!--Comment2--> </root> I know the xpath to select all the comments at a particular level in xsl string xPath = "/root/comment()"; However i'd like to select a comment where the inner xml is "Commen...

Force xslt document() to load an external document over HTTP rather than directly from the file system.

Within my ASP.NET application, I'm loading an XML file into an XSLT with the document() method, as follows: <xsl:variable name="more-xml" select="document('generateXml.ashx')" /> This works fine when I run it locally, but fails when I deploy it to the server because the server finds generateXml.ashx through the file system, so it isn'...

Template Recursion error

Hi! I am in the process of refreshing my XST knowledge, and have decided to have a go at making an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet that convert the XMLHelp files from the C# compiler into a better formatted form. There are a number of issues to get around, but currently I am simply trying to parse those annoying member name attributes, and creat...

Why does this XSLT code add a new line?

in IE (maybe FF too, but not sure) the following snippet from my XSL stylesheet... <td> <xsl:element name="img"> <xsl:attribute name="src"> <xsl:value-of select="image" /> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:element> </td> generates the following XHTML code... <td><img src=" someimage.jpg"></td> this new line that it inser...

Parsing XML within SAP ABAP

My company is working on a project that needs to read XML files within SAP ABAP. When the XML file has no data for a particular tag it omits that data. Some tags are self closing. e.g. <tag /> The SAP developer says that to read the XML document he first parses the document into an ABAP XML structure. This process fails on point 2. H...

XSLT -> XHTML: Inline PHP?

Hello all, I'm trying to use XSLT to generate some XHMTL with inline PHP. I've run across a problem with generating inline PHP in attributes. <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" doctype-system="...

Pulling content from one node only

I am trying to pull a specific node from my xml document, but continue to get content from all nodes. I am testing for a specific jNumber by passing the number to the xslt in a variable set with the fragment call ($jNumber). <xsl:if test="products/product/jNumber[. = $jNumber]"> <div class="floatLeft padTop10 margLeft10" style="width:...

XSLT: deep child copy

My need: I want to deep copy all the childs of a single selected node without actually copying it. Example: from <father><son i="1" /><son i="2" /><son i="0"><lastNode /></son></father> i wish to extract <son i="1" /><son i="2" /><son i="0"><lastNode /></son> I know that i can do this with a cycle for-each and then a xsl:copy-of....

XSLT: How to change the parent tag name and Delete an attribute from XML file?

I have an XML file from which I need to delete an attribute with name "Id" (It must be deleted wherever it appears) and also I need to rename the parent tag, while keeping its attributes and child elements unaltered .. Can you please help me modifying the code. At a time, am able to achieve only one of the two requirements .. I mean I ca...

Using special characters in XSL

I am trying to include special characters such as £, #, " in an XSL document, but have been unable to find a good way to do this. If anybody can suggest a way to achieve this, I'd be very grateful. Example below. Nick <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <HTML> <HEA...

XSLT, sort and group by year-date

Hello Regarding Umbraco XSLT version 1. I have aprox. 150 news items in XML. Lets say like this (all is pseudocode until I get more familiar with this xml/xslt): <news> <data alias=date>2008-10-20</data> </news> <news> <data alias=date>2009-11-25</data> </news><news> <data alias=date>2009-11-20</data> </news> etc. etc.... I wo...

XML Diff: How to generate XML diff using XSLT?

I would like to compute the diff between two XML files or nodes using XSL/XSLT. Is there any stylesheet readily available or any simple way of doing it? ...

return html from a web service in asp.net

Is there anyway to return HTML from a web service in C#? If I have my XSLT transform output tag as XML then I'm geting the XML tag <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> at the top of the returned page. Under that is my HTML and that's fine but what I'd really like to do is change my XSLT transform output tag to HTML and have the we...