[SlugBug] more xslt questions. ignore if offended!

[Chris J]

[[ much snippage ]]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Mike Dewar uttered these words of wisdom:
> 
> For some reason, though, when I run the xslt the only page that is 
> displayed is the other page, the "World Domination Map" page. I've 
> tried not putting the attribute in the template match, like this:
> 

What are you using as the XSL engine? Perl? PHP? Something custom using a 
library? Something else? :-)

One problem I've had with both MSXML's engine and older versions of Sablotron
is the lack of a template to handle the root element. So I'd advise to 
start with having a simple:

	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:apply-tempates select="site" />
	</xsl:template>

And treat that essentially as the entry point.

You may even be able to do:

	<xsl:template match="/site">
		.
		.
	[your existing template that's just matching on site]
		.
		.
	</xsl:template>

i.e., the addition of the '/' before site.

You may also need to modify the top of your XSLT thusly:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

Without the namespace declaration, Sablotron didn't want to know (complained
that 'xsl' was not a declared prefix - which is fair enough; any XML parser 
worth its salt will fall over at syntax issues like undeclared namespaces).

Tweak them to start with, let me know what happens :-)

Other things you could do is change the output format to xml from html - 
this will ensure you spit out XHTML (I notice you've mentioned XHTML in the 
comments of site.xml :-) ). 

You'll also need to tweak your site.xml graphics elements. Sablotron is 
spitting out this:

<img src="%0a%09%09%09globe_section.png%0a%09%09%09">  (HTML out)
or
<img src="&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;globe_section.png&#10;&#9;&#9;&#9;"/> (XML out)

So put your pic spec on one line:
	<graphic>globe_section.png</graphic>

That's all I can see for now :-)

Chris...

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