[SlugBug] more xslt questions. ignore if offended!

[Mike Dewar]

Brilliant, thanks alot for that. Just tried using Firefox to do the 
conversion and it did fine, confirming what you said. It's weird: I 
never even thought that the problem would be in the software I was using...

Cheers,

Mike Dewar

Chris J wrote:

>>OK. Have edited the xsl as you suggested. Thanks for the help.
>>
>>I'm using Perl and the XML::XSLT library to do the transformation.
>>
>>It's still spitting out the contents of the last <page>  element rather 
>>than the page element with the attribute title="home". Am I selecting 
>>it correctly with the lines:
>>
>><xsl:apply-templates select="page[@title='Home']"/>
>>
>>    
>>
>
>...Yes that's all okay. I think the problem lies with XML::XSLT. I've just 
>installed it here and seeing the results you describe; taking a peek at 
>their man page[1] shows that is doesn't fully support XPath:
>
>	xsl:apply-templates limited
>		Attribute 'select' is supported to the same
>		extent as xsl:value-of supports path selections.
>
>		Not supported yet: - attribute 'mode' - xsl:sort
>		and xsl:with-param in content
>
>		.
>		.
>		.
>
>	xsl:value-of limited
>		Inserts attribute or element values. Limited support:
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``.''/>
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``/root-elem''/>
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``elem''/>
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``//elem''/>
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``elem[n]''/>
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``//elem[n]''/>
>		   <xsl:value-of select=``@attr''/>
>	 	   <xsl:value-of select=``text()''/>
>	 	   <xsl:value-of select=``processing-instruction()''/>
>	 	   <xsl:value-of select=``comment()''/>
>
>	    and combinations of these.
>
>Essentially, it doesn't support elem[test expression]. The elem[n] listed 
>above is to match a partiular element by index (e.g., //elem[1] will match 
>the first 'elem' element it comes across). It seems there's a lot of stuff 
>listed that isn't fully supported...
>
>Your best bet is to install a Perl hook into a full XSLT parser. There's a 
>XML::Sablotron that I can see (I've not used it yet); Sablotron itself is 
>straightforward to install (requires expat).
>
>There's also a perl wrapper for the Apache project's Xalan processor (I've 
>not used Xalan, so can't comment on speed/size/complexity to install etc).
>
>Chris...
>[1] http://xmlxslt.sourceforge.net/manpage-XML-XSLT.html
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