Is there an [XSLT][1] equivalent for JSON? Something to allow me to do transformations on JSON like XSLT does to XML.


  [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt

XSLT equivalent for JSON

How can I check if a value is null or empty with [XSL][1]?

For example, if `categoryName` is empty? I&#39;m using a *when choosing* construct.

For example:

    &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
        &lt;xsl:when test=&quot;categoryName !=null&quot;&gt;
            &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;categoryName &quot; /&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:when&gt;
        &lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
            &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;other&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;

  [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL


Check if a string is null or empty in XSLT

This error,

&gt; The processing instruction target matching &quot;[xX][mM][lL]&quot; is not allowed

occurs whenever I run an XSLT page that begins as follows:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;windows-1256&quot;?&gt; 
    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;&gt;
      &lt;xsl:include href=&quot;../header.xsl&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&gt;
        &lt;xsl:call-template name=&quot;pstyle&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;xsl:call-template name=&quot;Validation&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;strLang&quot;&gt;
          &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;//lang&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
        &lt;!-- ////////////// Page Title ///////////// --&gt;
        &lt;title&gt;
    	    &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;//ListStudentFinishedExam.Title&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/title&gt;

**Note**: I removed any leading spaces before the first line, but the error still occurs!


Error: The processing instruction target matching &quot;[xX][mM][lL]&quot; is not allowed

How can I insert

&gt;  `&amp;nbsp;`

Into an XSLT stylesheet, I keep getting this error:

&gt; XML Parsing Error: undefined entity

Essentially I want a non breaking space character in the XSLT Template.

 

How to insert &amp;nbsp; in XSLT

I want to produce a newline for text output in XSLT. Any ideas?

Producing a new line in XSLT

I&#39;m trying to create a website that can be downloaded and run locally by launching its index file.

All the files are local, no resources are used online.

When I try to use the AJAXSLT plugin for jQuery to process an XML file with an XSL template (in sub directories), I receive the following errors:

`XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///C:/path/to/XSL%20Website/data/home.xml. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.`

`XMLHttpRequest cannot load file:///C:/path/to/XSL%20Website/assets/xsl/main.xsl. Origin null is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin.`

The index file making the request is `file:///C:/path/to/XSL%20Website/index.html` while the JavaScript files used are stored in `file:///C:/path/to/XSL%20Website/assets/js/`.

How can I do to fix this issue?

XMLHttpRequest Origin null is not allowed Access-Control-Allow-Origin for file:/// to file:/// (Serverless)

Using a XPath query how do you find if a node (tag) exists at all?

For example if I needed to make sure a website page has the correct basic structure like `/html/body` and `/html/head/title`.

XPath find if node exists

What XPath can I use to select any category with a name attribute specified and any child node author with the value specified.

I&#39;ve tried different variations of the path below with no success:

    //quotes/category[@name=&#39;Sport&#39; and author=&quot;James Small&quot;]

The XML:


    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;quotes&gt;
      &lt;category name=&quot;Sport&quot;&gt;
       &lt;author&gt;James Small&lt;quote date=&quot;09/02/1985&quot;&gt;Quote One&lt;/quote&gt;&lt;quote             date=&quot;11/02/1925&quot;&gt;Quote nine&lt;/quote&gt;&lt;/author&gt;
      &lt;/category&gt;
       &lt;category name=&quot;Music&quot;&gt;
       &lt;author&gt;Stephen Swann
     &lt;quote date=&quot;04/08/1972&quot;&gt;Quote eleven&lt;/quote&gt;&lt;/author&gt;
      &lt;/category&gt;
      &lt;/quotes&gt;



XPath with multiple conditions

I want to apply an XSLT Stylesheet to an XML Document using C# and write the output to a File.


How to apply an XSLT Stylesheet in C#

I&#39;m using web.config transformation as described in the below post in order to generate configs for different environments.

http://vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/2009/03/web-deployment-webconfig-transformation_23.html

I can do a &quot;Replace&quot; transformation by matching on the key, e.g.

    &lt;add key=&quot;Environment&quot; value=&quot;Live&quot; xdt:Transform=&quot;Replace&quot; xdt:Locator=&quot;Match(key)&quot; /&gt;

And I can do &quot;Inserts&quot; e.g.

    &lt;add key=&quot;UseLivePaymentService&quot; value=&quot;true&quot; xdt:Transform=&quot;Insert&quot; /&gt;

But what I would *really* find useful is a ReplaceOrInsert transformation, as I can&#39;t always rely on the original config file having/not having a certain key.

Is there any way to do this?


Is there any way to do a &quot;Replace Or Insert&quot; using web.config transformation?

I am trying to implement an if -else statement in XSLT but my code just doesn&#39;t parse.  Does anyone have any ideas?


      &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;CreatedDate&quot; select=&quot;@createDate&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;IDAppendedDate&quot; select=&quot;2012-01-01&quot; /&gt;
      &lt;b&gt;date: &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;$CreatedDate&quot;/&gt;&lt;/b&gt; 
    
      &lt;xsl:if test=&quot;$CreatedDate &gt; $IDAppendedDate&quot;&gt;
        &lt;h2&gt; mooooooooooooo &lt;/h2&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:if&gt;
      &lt;xsl:else&gt;
        &lt;h2&gt; dooooooooooooo &lt;/h2&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:else&gt;



How to implement if-else statement in XSLT?

I am trying to find the last element in my xml, which looks like:

        &lt;list&gt;
            &lt;element name=&quot;A&quot; /&gt;
            &lt;element name=&quot;B&quot; &gt;
                &lt;element name=&quot;C&quot; /&gt;
                &lt;element name=&quot;D&quot; &gt;
                    &lt;element name=&quot;D&quot; /&gt;
                    &lt;element name=&quot;E&quot; /&gt;
                    &lt;element name=&quot;F&quot; /&gt;
                    &lt;element name=&quot;G&quot; /&gt;
                &lt;/element&gt;
            &lt;element name=&quot;H&quot; /&gt;
            &lt;element name=&quot;I&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;/list&gt;

I need to get some kind of reverse menu, where current element and parents are highlighted as &quot;active&quot; and sibling as &quot;inactive&quot;. Instead in result I have a messy tree only when  I suppose &quot;D&quot; element clicked.

Double D elements are my problem. When I use 
`select=&quot;//element[@name=&#39;D&#39;][last()]&quot;` or `select=&quot;//element[@name=&#39;D&#39; and last()]&quot;` (btw which one is correct?) first time _first occurrence of_ D element is selected (debugger shows that). Here is xsl

    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;list&quot;&gt;
        &lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;//navelement[@name = &#39;D&#39;][last()]&quot; mode=&quot;active&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    
    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;element&quot;&gt;
        &lt;ul class=&quot;menu&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;preceding-sibling::node()&quot; mode=&quot;inactive&quot;/&gt;
    	    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a&gt;....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;following-sibling::node()&quot; mode=&quot;inactive&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;	
        &lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;parent::element&quot; mode=&quot;active&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    
    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;element&quot; mode=&quot;inactive&quot;&gt;
    	    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a&gt;....&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

XSLT getting last element

How would one get the value of attribute1 (blah) in the following xml using xslt:

    &lt;name attribute1=&quot;blah&quot; attribute2=&quot;blahblah&quot;&gt;
    &lt;/name&gt;

Getting the value of an attribute in XML

I have a string that represents a non indented XML that I would like to pretty-print. For example:

    &lt;root&gt;&lt;node/&gt;&lt;/root&gt;

should become:

    &lt;root&gt;
      &lt;node/&gt;
    &lt;/root&gt;

Syntax highlighting is not a requirement. To tackle the problem I first transform the XML to add carriage returns and white spaces and then use a [*pre*][1] tag to output the XML. To add new lines and white spaces I wrote the following function: 


    function formatXml(xml) {
        var formatted = &#39;&#39;;
        var reg = /(&gt;)(&lt;)(\/*)/g;
        xml = xml.replace(reg, &#39;$1\r\n$2$3&#39;);
        var pad = 0;
        jQuery.each(xml.split(&#39;\r\n&#39;), function(index, node) {
            var indent = 0;
            if (node.match( /.+&lt;\/\w[^&gt;]*&gt;$/ )) {
                indent = 0;
            } else if (node.match( /^&lt;\/\w/ )) {
                if (pad != 0) {
                    pad -= 1;
                }
            } else if (node.match( /^&lt;\w[^&gt;]*[^\/]&gt;.*$/ )) {
                indent = 1;
            } else {
                indent = 0;
            }
    			
            var padding = &#39;&#39;;
            for (var i = 0; i &lt; pad; i++) {
                padding += &#39;  &#39;;
            }

            formatted += padding + node + &#39;\r\n&#39;;
            pad += indent;
        });
        
        return formatted;
    }



I then call the function like this:

    jQuery(&#39;pre.formatted-xml&#39;).text(formatXml(&#39;&lt;root&gt;&lt;node1/&gt;&lt;/root&gt;&#39;));


This works perfectly fine for me but while I was writing the previous function I thought that there must be a better way. So my question is do you know of any better way given an XML string to pretty-print it in an html page? Any javascript frameworks and/or plugins that could do the job are welcome. My only requirement is this to be done on the client side.


  [1]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4

Pretty printing XML with javascript

How would I *cleanly* set the doctype of a file to HTML5 `&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;` via XSLT (in this case with [collective.xdv][1])

The following, which is the best my Google foo has been able to find:

	&lt;xsl:output
	    method=&quot;html&quot;
	    doctype-public=&quot;XSLT-compat&quot;
	    omit-xml-declaration=&quot;yes&quot;
	    encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;
	    indent=&quot;yes&quot; /&gt;

produces:


    &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC &quot;XSLT-compat&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd&quot;&gt;


  [1]: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xdv#inline-xsl-directives

Set HTML5 doctype with XSLT

Is this right for When 4 &lt; 5 and 1 &lt; 2 ?

    &lt;xsl:when test=&quot;4 &amp;lt; 5 AND 1 &amp;lt; 2&quot; &gt;
    &lt;!-- do something --&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:when&gt;

Can you put two conditions in an xslt test attribute?

Some colleagues and I were comparing past languages we had programmed in and were talking about our experience with **VBScript** with its **odd** features such as **1-based index** instead of 0-based indexes like almost every other language has, the reasoning being that it was a **language for users** (e.g. Excel VBA) instead of a language for developers.

Then someone said, &quot;**XPath also has 1-based indexes**&quot; which I couldn&#39;t believe until I found **[this article][1]** in which many reasons are given **in favor of the 0-based approach** including some from Michael Kay himself:

- *&quot;...zero-based indexing tends to make the index formulae simpler when accessing a multi-dimensional array with a one-dimensional array access expression&quot;* 
- *&quot;when handling tables, or subscripting into strings, zero-based addressing would often be much more convenient&quot;* 
- *&quot;...hardware addressing is not the only benefit of 0-based addressing ... it also makes computations easier...&quot;*

but then Michael Kay is quoted as concluding:

&gt; ...1-based logic was the right choice for XPath and XSLT...because the language was designed
&gt; for users, not for programmers, and
&gt; users still have this old-fashioned
&gt; habit of referring to the first
&gt; chapter in a book as Chapter One...

Can someone explain that to me?  **(1) How is XPath designed for users?** I can&#39;t imagine anyone who is not a developer wrangling with the syntactical rigidity of XPath or the declarative/functional-programming-aspects of XSLT. and **(2) Why really did the creators of XPath go against the norm of modern programming languages by choosing a 1-based index?**




  [1]: http://mukulgandhi.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html

Why do indexes in XPath start with 1 and not 0?

I am new in XSLT so I&#39;m little bit confused about the two tags, 

    &lt;xsl:apply-templates name=&quot;nodes&quot;&gt;

and

    &lt;xsl:call-template select=&quot;nodes&quot;&gt; 

So can you list out the difference between them?

What are the differences between &#39;call-template&#39; and &#39;apply-templates&#39; in XSL?

How do you do case conversion in XSL?

    &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;upper&quot;&gt;UPPER CASE&lt;/xsl:variable&gt;
    &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;lower&quot; select=&quot;???&quot;/&gt;

How can I convert a string to upper- or lower-case with XSLT?

A while ago, I started on a project where I designed a html-esque XML schema so that authors could write their content (educational course material) in a simplified format which would then be transformed into HTML via XSLT. I played around (struggled) with it for a while and got it to a very basic level but then was too annoyed by the limitations I was encountering (which may well have been limitations of my knowledge) and when I read a blog suggesting to ditch XSLT and just write your own XML-to-whatever parser in your language of choice, I eagerly jumped onto that and it&#39;s worked out brilliantly.

I&#39;m still working on it to this day (_I&#39;m actually supposed to be working on it right now, instead of playing on SO_), and I am seeing more and more things which make me think that the decision to ditch XSLT was a good one.

I know that XSLT has its place, in that it is an accepted standard, and that if everyone is writing their own interpreters, 90% of them will end up on [TheDailyWTF](http://thedailywtf.com). But given that it is a [functional style language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming) instead of the procedural style which most programmers are familiar with, for someone embarking on a project such as my own, **would you recommend they go down the path that I did, or stick it out with XSLT**?

Is XSLT worth it?

I&#39;m running over all textnodes of my DOM and check if the nodeValue contains a certain string.

    /html/body//text()[contains(.,&#39;test&#39;)]
This is case sensitive. However, I also want to catch `Test`, `TEST` or `TesT`. Is that possible with XPath (in JavaScript)?

Case insensitive XPath contains() possible?

Pandas read_xml() method test strategies

In XSLT there is the

    &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;expression&quot;/&gt;

to get the value of an element, but is there something to select the tag-name of the element?

In a situation like this:

    &lt;person&gt;
      &lt;!-- required stuff --&gt;
      &lt;name&gt;Robert&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;!-- optional stuff, free form for future extension. 
           Using XMLSchema&#39;s xsd:any --&gt;
      &lt;profession&gt;programmer&lt;/profession&gt;
      &lt;hobby&gt;photography&lt;/hobby&gt;
    &lt;/person&gt;

    &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;person&quot;&gt;
       &lt;xsl:tag-of select=&quot;.&quot;/&gt; : &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;

To get output like this:

&gt;     name : Robert
&gt;     profession : programmer
&gt;     hobby : photography

Of course the above XSLT won&#39;t compile because

     &lt;xsl:tag-of select=&quot;expression&quot;/&gt;
doesn&#39;t exist. But how could this be done?

Is there an XSLT name-of element?

    &lt;a&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:attribute name=&quot;href&quot;&gt; 
    	 &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;/*/properties/property[@name=&#39;report&#39;]/@value&quot; /&gt;
    	&lt;/xsl:attribute&gt;
    &lt;/a&gt;	

Is there any way to concat another string to

    &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;/*/properties/property[@name=&#39;report&#39;]/@value&quot;  /&gt;

I need to pass some text to href attribute in addition to the report property value


How to concat a string to xsl:value-of select=&quot;...?

A program we use in my office exports reports by translating a XML file it exports with an XSLT file into XHTML. I&#39;m rewriting the XSLT to change the formatting and to add more information from the source XML File.

I&#39;d like to include the date the file was created in the final report. But the current date/time is not included in the original XML file, nor do I have any control on how the XML file is created. There doesn&#39;t seem to be any date functions building into XSLT that will return the current date. 

Does anyone have any idea how I might be able to include the current date during my XSLT transformation?

Can an XSLT insert the current date?

I have an XML document [here](http://technobotts.info/documentation/DataProcessing.xml) that is served with a corresponding [XSL file](http://technobotts.info/documentation/documentation.xsl). The transformation is left to be executed client-side, without JavaScript.

This works fine in IE (shock horror), but in Google Chrome, just displays the document&#39;s text nodes.

I know that it is possible to do client-side XSL in Chrome, as I have seen examples of it, but I am yet to be able to replicate this success myself

What am I doing wrong?

How can I make XSLT work in chrome?

I was looking into xslt and started testing with the examples on w3schools.

However, when I save the xml and xsl in files and try opening them locally, chrome won&#39;t perform the xsl transform. It just shows a blank page.

I have added the`&lt;?xml-stylesheet type=&quot;text/xsl&quot; href=&quot;style.xsl&quot;&gt;` tag to the xml document, and firefox renders it as it is supposed to look. Also, if I look at the files through a web server, chrome displays the file as it is supposed to look.

Is it that chrome has a problem finding the stylesheet information when the link is local? Changing the href to `file:///C:/xsl/style.xsl` didn&#39;t make any difference.

_Update:_ This seems to be a side effect of a security-policy [to not treat file:///* as same origin.](http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47416) This makes the following error appear in the console:
&gt;Unsafe attempt to load URL file:///C:/xsl-rpg/style.xsl from frame with URL file:///C:/xsl-rpg/data.xml. Domains, protocols and ports must match. 


Can Chrome be made to perform an XSL transform on a local file?

How to get a counter inside xsl:for-each loop that would reflect the number of current element processed.  
For example my source XML is

    &lt;books&gt;
    	&lt;book&gt;
    		&lt;title&gt;The Unbearable Lightness of Being &lt;/title&gt;
    	&lt;/book&gt;
    	&lt;book&gt;
    		&lt;title&gt;Narcissus and Goldmund&lt;/title&gt;
    	&lt;/book&gt;
    	&lt;book&gt;
    		&lt;title&gt;Choke&lt;/title&gt;
    	&lt;/book&gt;
    &lt;/books&gt;

What I want to get is:

    &lt;newBooks&gt;
    	&lt;newBook&gt;
    		&lt;countNo&gt;1&lt;/countNo&gt;
    		&lt;title&gt;The Unbearable Lightness of Being &lt;/title&gt;
    	&lt;/newBook&gt;
    	&lt;newBook&gt;
    		&lt;countNo&gt;2&lt;/countNo&gt;
    		&lt;title&gt;Narcissus and Goldmund&lt;/title&gt;
    	&lt;/newBook&gt;
    	&lt;newBook&gt;
    		&lt;countNo&gt;3&lt;/countNo&gt;
    		&lt;title&gt;Choke&lt;/title&gt;
    	&lt;/newBook&gt;
    &lt;/newBooks&gt;

The XSLT to modify:

    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:output method=&quot;xml&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; indent=&quot;yes&quot;/&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&gt;
    		&lt;newBooks&gt;
    			&lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;books/book&quot;&gt;
    				&lt;newBook&gt;
    					&lt;countNo&gt;???&lt;/countNo&gt;
    					&lt;title&gt;
    						&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;title&quot;/&gt;
    					&lt;/title&gt;
    				&lt;/newBook&gt;
    			&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
    		&lt;/newBooks&gt;
    	&lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;

So the question is what to put in place of ???. Is there any standard keyword or do I simply must declare a variable and increment it inside the loop?

As the question is pretty long I should probably expect one line or one word answer :)

Counter inside xsl:for-each loop

.NET 3.5 doesn&#39;t completely support XPATH 2.0 or XSLT 2.0, which is just too bad. Does anyone know if these two will be included and **fully supported** in any future .NET versions?

XPath and XSLT 2.0 for .NET?

I don&#39;t really know XSL but I need to fix this code, I have reduced it to make it simpler.&lt;br&gt;
I am getting this error 

&gt; Invalid XSLT/XPath function

on this line

    &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;text&quot; select=&quot;replace($text,&#39;a&#39;,&#39;b&#39;)&quot;/&gt;


This is the XSL

    &lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;
        xmlns:inm=&quot;http://www.inmagic.com/webpublisher/query&quot; version=&quot;1.0&quot;&gt;
        &lt;xsl:output method=&quot;text&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot; /&gt;
    
        &lt;xsl:preserve-space elements=&quot;*&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;text()&quot; /&gt;
    
        &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;mos&quot;&gt;
            &lt;xsl:apply-templates /&gt;
    
            &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;mosObj&quot;&gt;
              &#39;Notes or subject&#39; 
               &lt;xsl:call-template
                    name=&quot;rem-html&quot;&gt;
                    &lt;xsl:with-param name=&quot;text&quot; select=&quot;SBS_ABSTRACT&quot; /&gt;
                &lt;/xsl:call-template&gt;
            &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    
        &lt;xsl:template name=&quot;rem-html&quot;&gt;
            &lt;xsl:param name=&quot;text&quot; /&gt;
            &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;text&quot; select=&quot;replace($text, &#39;a&#39;, &#39;b&#39;)&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;

Can anyone tell me what&#39;s wrong with it?


XSLT string replace

I am totally new to XSLT and can&#39;t work out where I am going wrong with the following code.

    &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;var&quot; select=&quot;boolean(&#39;false&#39;)&quot;/&gt;
    
    &lt;xsl:if test=&quot;$var&#39;&quot;&gt;variable is true&lt;/xsl:if&gt;

It is always returning true when it is meant to be false. Why?

How to create a boolean value?

How to transform XML with XSLT processor in Java using the JDK?

XSLT processing with Java?

I know there are some online regex evaluators.. very useful, matching in real time. They are like web applications of RegexBuddy.

I was wondering if there is a similar thing for xPath selectors? I am just learning them and it would be valuable to me.

Is there an online tester that allows you to input XML and then an xPath selector and match (live would be better, but I doubt someone has written a JavaScript interpreter?) them?

Thanks

Is there an online tester for xPath selectors?

Here is something that has always mystified me about XSLT:

1. In what order do the templates execute, and
2. When they execute, do they match on (a) the original source XML, or (b) the current output of the XSLT to that point?

Example:

    &lt;person&gt;
      &lt;firstName&gt;Deane&lt;/firstName&gt;
      &lt;lastName&gt;Barker&lt;/lastName&gt;
    &lt;/person&gt;

Here is a fragment of XSLT:

    &lt;!-- Template #1 --&gt;
    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&gt;
      &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;firstName&quot;/&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;lastName&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

    &lt;!-- Template #2 --&gt;
    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/person/firstName&quot;&gt;
      First Name: &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;firstName&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

Two questions about this:

1. I am assuming that Template #1 will execute first.  I don&#39;t know why I assume this -- is it just because it appears first in the document?
2. Will Template #2 execute?  It matches a node in the source XML, but by the time the we get to this template (assuming it runs second), the &quot;firstName&quot; node will not be in the output tree.

So, are &quot;later&quot; templates beholden to what has occurred in &quot;earlier&quot; templates, or do they operate on the source document, oblivious to what has been transformed &quot;prior&quot; to them?  (All those words are in quotes, because I find it hard to discuss time-based issues when I really have little idea how template order is determined in the first place...)

In the above example, we have a template that matches on the root node (&quot;/&quot;) that -- when it is done executing -- has essentially removed all nodes from the output.  This being the case, would this pre-empt all other templates from executing since there is nothing to match on after that first template is complete?

To this point, I&#39;ve been concerned with later templates not executing because the nodes they have operated on do not appear in the output, but what about the inverse?  Can an &quot;earlier&quot; template create a node that a &quot;later&quot; template can do something with?

On the same XML as above, consider this XSL:

    &lt;!-- Template #1 --&gt;
    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&gt;
      &lt;fullName&gt;
        &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;firstName&quot;/&gt; &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;lastName&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;/fullName&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

    &lt;!-- Template #2 --&gt;
    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;//fullName&quot;&gt;
      Full Name: &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

Template #1 creates a new node called &quot;fullName&quot;.  Template #2 matches on that same node.  Will Template #2 execute because the &quot;fullName&quot; node exists in the output by the time we get around to Template #2?

I realize that I&#39;m deeply ignorant about the &quot;zen&quot; of XSLT.  To date, my stylesheets have consisted of a template matching the root node, then are completely procedural from there.  I&#39;m tired of doing this.  I would rather actually understand XSLT correctly, hence my question.

In what order do templates in an XSLT document execute, and do they match on the source XML or the buffered output?

Hi I had performed a transformation which drops a tag if it is null.

I wanted to check whether my transformation is working fine, so instead of checking it manually, I wrote one more XSLT code which just checks the presence of that particular tag in the OUTPUT XML, if it is null, then the second XSLT should output a text &quot;FOUND&quot;. (I don&#39;t actually need some XML kind of output but I am just using XSLT for searching.)

When I tried with this XSL code ::

    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;&gt;
      &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/SiebelMessage//SuppressCalendar[.!=&#39;&#39;]&quot;&gt;
          FOUND
      &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;

It outputs all the TEXT DATA that is present in the XML file,

to avoid that, I had to write this code::

    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;&gt;
      &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/SiebelMessage//SuppressCalendar[.!=&#39;&#39;]&quot;&gt;
          FOUND
      &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
      &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;text()&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;

why did the former code outputs TEXT, why should I insist XSL to ignore all other text? is that the behavior of all XML parsers or only of my own (I am using msxml parser).



Why does XSLT output all text by default?

I have the following XML document:

    &lt;projects&gt;
      &lt;project&gt;
       &lt;name&gt;Shockwave&lt;/name&gt; 
       &lt;language&gt;Ruby&lt;/language&gt; 
       &lt;owner&gt;Brian May&lt;/owner&gt; 
       &lt;state&gt;New&lt;/state&gt; 
       &lt;startDate&gt;31/10/2008 0:00:00&lt;/startDate&gt; 
      &lt;/project&gt;
      &lt;project&gt;
       &lt;name&gt;Other&lt;/name&gt; 
       &lt;language&gt;Erlang&lt;/language&gt; 
       &lt;owner&gt;Takashi Miike&lt;/owner&gt; 
       &lt;state&gt; Canceled &lt;/state&gt; 
       &lt;startDate&gt;07/11/2008 0:00:00&lt;/startDate&gt; 
      &lt;/project&gt;
    ...

And I&#39;d like to get this from the transformation (XSLT) result:

    Shockwave,Ruby,Brian May,New,31/10/2008 0:00:00
    Other,Erlang,Takashi Miike,Cancelled,07/11/2008 0:00:00

Does anyone know the XSLT to achieve this? I&#39;m using .net in case that matters.


XML to CSV Using XSLT

In 

    &lt;xsl:template name=&quot;temp_name&quot; mode=&quot;mode&quot;&gt;

What is the meaning of `mode`? I searched many many resource, but i couldn&#39;t find example for that. So can anybody explain with an example?


Can one give me the example for &quot;mode&quot; of template in xsl?

Good day! Need to convert xml using xslt in Python. I have a sample code in php. 

How to implement this in Python or where to find something similar? Thank you!

    $xmlFileName = dirname(__FILE__).&quot;example.fb2&quot;;
    $xml = new DOMDocument();
    $xml-&gt;load($xmlFileName);

    $xslFileName = dirname(__FILE__).&quot;example.xsl&quot;;
    $xsl = new DOMDocument;
    $xsl-&gt;load($xslFileName);

    // Configure the transformer
    $proc = new XSLTProcessor();
    $proc-&gt;importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
    echo $proc-&gt;transformToXML($xml);

How to transform an XML file using XSLT in Python?

I have a lot of XML files which have something of the form:

    &lt;Element fruit=&quot;apple&quot; animal=&quot;cat&quot; /&gt;

Which I want to be removed from the file.

Using an XSLT stylesheet and the Linux command-line utility xsltproc, how could I do this?

By this point in the script I already have the list of files containing the element I wish to remove, so the single file can be used as a parameter.

&lt;hr /&gt;

**EDIT:** the question was originally lacking in intention.

What I am trying to achieve is to remove the entire element &quot;Element&quot; where (fruit==&quot;apple&quot; &amp;&amp; animal==&quot;cat&quot;). In the same document there are many elements named &quot;Element&quot;, I wish for these to remain. So

    &lt;Element fruit=&quot;orange&quot; animal=&quot;dog&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;Element fruit=&quot;apple&quot;  animal=&quot;cat&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;Element fruit=&quot;pear&quot;   animal=&quot;wild three eyed mongoose of kentucky&quot; /&gt;

Would become:

    &lt;Element fruit=&quot;orange&quot; animal=&quot;dog&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;Element fruit=&quot;pear&quot;   animal=&quot;wild three eyed mongoose of kentucky&quot; /&gt;



How to remove elements from xml using xslt with stylesheet and xsltproc?

Currently i have a xsl with following code where I&#39;m trying print out &quot;count&quot; only if it is not equal to `N/A`. but seems like `&quot;!=&quot;` is not working. 

    &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;Directory/Match&quot;&gt;
        &lt;xsl:if test = &quot;Count != N/A&quot;&gt;
            &lt;tr&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;@bookName&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;@AuthorName&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
                &lt;td&gt;&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;Count&quot; /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
            &lt;/tr&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:if&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;

However, it works if I try to compare it with numeric value.

Example:

    &lt;xsl:if test = &quot;Occurrances != 0&quot;&gt;

Can someone please tell me: If I would like to compare strings what can I use?


How do I specify &quot;not equals to&quot; when comparing strings in an XSLT &lt;xsl:if&gt;?

I am using xsl to control the output of my xml file, but the BOM character is being added.

How do I remove the BOM character from my xml file

## General Problem ##

Though I may be diagnosing the root cause of an event, determining how many users it affected, or distilling timing logs in order to assess the performance and throughput impact of a recent code change, my tools stay the same: `grep`, `awk`, `sed`, `tr`, `uniq`, `sort`, `zcat`, `tail`, `head`, `join`, and `split`. To glue them all together, Unix gives us pipes, and for fancier filtering we have `xargs`. If these fail me, there&#39;s always `perl -e`.

These tools are perfect for processing CSV files, tab-delimited files, log files with a predictable line format, or files with comma-separated key-value pairs. In other words, files where each line has next to no context.

## XML Analogues ##

I recently needed to trawl through Gigabytes of XML to build a histogram of usage by user. This was easy enough with the tools I had, but for more complicated queries the normal approaches break down. Say I have files with items like this:

    &lt;foo user=&quot;me&quot;&gt;
        &lt;baz key=&quot;zoidberg&quot; value=&quot;squid&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;baz key=&quot;leela&quot;    value=&quot;cyclops&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;baz key=&quot;fry&quot;      value=&quot;rube&quot; /&gt;
    &lt;/foo&gt;

And let&#39;s say I want to produce a mapping from user to average number of `&lt;baz&gt;`s per `&lt;foo&gt;`. Processing line-by-line is no longer an option: I need to know which user&#39;s `&lt;foo&gt;` I&#39;m currently inspecting so I know whose average to update. Any sort of Unix one liner that accomplishes this task is likely to be inscrutable.

Fortunately in XML-land, we have wonderful technologies like XPath, XQuery, and XSLT to help us.

Previously, I had gotten accustomed to using the wonderful `XML::XPath` Perl module to accomplish queries like the one above, but after finding a [TextMate Plugin that could run an XPath expression against my current window][1], I stopped writing one-off Perl scripts to query XML. And I just found out about [XMLStarlet][2] which is installing as I type this and which I look forward to using in the future.

## JSON Solutions? ##

So this leads me to my question: are there any tools like this for JSON? It&#39;s only a matter of time before some investigation task requires me to do similar queries on JSON files, and without tools like XPath and XSLT, such a task will be a lot harder. If I had a bunch of JSON that looked like this:

    {
      &quot;firstName&quot;: &quot;Bender&quot;,
      &quot;lastName&quot;: &quot;Robot&quot;,
      &quot;age&quot;: 200,
      &quot;address&quot;: {
        &quot;streetAddress&quot;: &quot;123&quot;,
        &quot;city&quot;: &quot;New York&quot;,
        &quot;state&quot;: &quot;NY&quot;,
        &quot;postalCode&quot;: &quot;1729&quot;
      },
      &quot;phoneNumber&quot;: [
        { &quot;type&quot;: &quot;home&quot;, &quot;number&quot;: &quot;666 555-1234&quot; },
        { &quot;type&quot;: &quot;fax&quot;, &quot;number&quot;: &quot;666 555-4567&quot; }
      ]
    }

And wanted to find the average number of phone numbers each person had, I could do something like this with XPath:

    fn:avg(/fn:count(phoneNumber))

## Questions ##

 1. Are there any command-line tools
    that can &quot;query&quot; JSON files in this
    way?
 2. If you have to process a bunch of
    JSON files on a Unix command line,
    what tools do you use?
 3. Heck, is there even work being done
    to make a query language like this
    for JSON?
 4. If you do use tools like this in
    your day-to-day work, what do you
    like/dislike about them? Are there
    any gotchas?

I&#39;m noticing more and more data serialization is being done using JSON, so processing tools like this will be crucial when analyzing large data dumps in the future. Language libraries for JSON are very strong and it&#39;s easy enough to write scripts to do this sort of processing, but to really let people play around with the data shell tools are needed.

### Related Questions ###

 - [Grep and Sed Equivalent for XML Command Line Processing][3]
 - [Is there a query language for JSON?][4]
 - [JSONPath or other XPath like utility for JSON/Javascript; or Jquery JSON][5]

  [1]: http://ditchnet.org/xmlmate/
  [2]: http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
  [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/91791/grep-and-sed-equivalent-for-xml-command-line-processing
  [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/777455/is-there-a-query-language-for-json
  [5]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/859033/jsonpath-or-other-xpath-like-utility-for-json-javascript-or-jquery-json

What are good CLI tools for JSON?

In XSLT, what is the difference between the &quot;current node&quot; and the &quot;context node&quot;? You can find both terms used here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.

When would you use one or the other? How do you refer to each?

Current node vs. Context node in XSLT/XPath?

&lt;p&gt;Hello,&lt;/p&gt;
I&#39;m trying to generate XML from another XML using a XslTransform. I get both files (source XML and XSL transformation file) as string content, so I&#39;m trying to pass the XSL file to XslTransform.Load() method as XmlReader. Now the XmlReader has to be created form a source string containing XSL file, so i try doing it like this:

    MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
    byte[] data = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(transformation.XsltContent);
    memStream.Write(data, 0, data.Length);
    memStream.Position = 0;
    XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(memStream);

and also tried using a StringReader:

    XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(transformation.XsltContent));


Unfortunately, bot methods don&#39;t seems to work, the input seems to be ok, I even tried creating some basic one-element XML to pass, won&#39;t work either - reader contains {None}.
&lt;p&gt;Could someone point out what seems to be the problem here?&lt;/p&gt; 

XMLReader from a string content

What is the best way to include an html entity in XSLT?

    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/a/node&quot;&gt;
        &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;xsl:text&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

this one returns a **XsltParseError**

Using an HTML entity in XSLT (e.g. &amp;nbsp;)

I have the following snippet of XSL:

      &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;item&quot;&gt;
        &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;hhref&quot; select=&quot;link&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;xsl:variable name=&quot;pdate&quot; select=&quot;pubDate&quot; /&gt;
        &lt;xsl:if test=&quot;hhref not contains &#39;1234&#39;&quot;&gt;
          &lt;li&gt;
            &lt;a href=&quot;{$hhref}&quot; title=&quot;{$pdate}&quot;&gt;
              &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;title&quot;/&gt;
            &lt;/a&gt;
          &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/xsl:if&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;

The if statement does not work because I haven&#39;t been able to work out the syntax for contains. How would I correctly express that xsl:if?

Is there an XSL &quot;contains&quot; directive?

I have an XML document, and I want to change the values for one of the attributes.

First I copied everything from input to output using:

    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;@*|node()&quot;&gt;
      &lt;xsl:copy&gt;
        &lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;@*|node()&quot;/&gt;
      &lt;/xsl:copy&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

And now I want to change the value of the attribute `&quot;type&quot;` in any element named `&quot;property&quot;`.


XSLT: How to change an attribute value during &lt;xsl:copy&gt;?

I have an XML document with a default namespace indicated at the root.
Something like this:

    &lt;MyRoot xmlns=&quot;http://www.mysite.com&quot;&gt;
       &lt;MyChild1&gt;
           &lt;MyData&gt;1234&lt;/MyData&gt; 
       &lt;/MyChild1&gt; 
    &lt;/MyRoot&gt;

The XSLT to parse the XML does not work as expected because of the
default namespace, i.e. when I remove the namespace, everything works as
expected.

Here is my XSLT:

    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;
				xmlns:xs=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&quot;&gt;
     &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot; &gt;
      &lt;soap:Envelope xsl:version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;  xmlns:xsd=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema&quot; xmlns:soap=&quot;http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/&quot;&gt;
       &lt;soap:Body&gt;
         &lt;NewRoot xmlns=&quot;http://wherever.com&quot;&gt;
           &lt;NewChild&gt;
             &lt;ChildID&gt;ABCD&lt;/ChildID&gt;
             &lt;ChildData&gt;
                &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;/MyRoot/MyChild1/MyData&quot;/&gt;
             &lt;/ChildData&gt;
           &lt;/NewChild&gt;
         &lt;/NewRoot&gt;
       &lt;/soap:Body&gt;
      &lt;/soap:Envelope&gt;
     &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;

What needs to be done with XSLT document so that translation works properly?  What exactly needs to be done in XSLT document?

XSLT with XML source that has a default namespace set to xmlns

I am writing an XSLT file to translate an XML document into an XHTML document. I&#39;ve used both Visual Studio and [XML Notepad 2007][1] to preview the results of my XSLT file, but now I want to actually write out a real XHTML file so I can see how it looks in other browsers. 

Neither Visual Studio or XML NotePad have an obvious way to save the preview. Am I missing something. Obviously the file is getting created because something is being previewed, but I need to know where that file is being created or better yet choose its location.

  [1]: http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?FamilyID=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&amp;displaylang=en

How do I run an XSLT file?

I am just learning XML and how to use XSL files.
In an XSL file I found the following term:

    xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;

What does this stand for?
And what could I use instead of the `/`?
Could I write `table` or any other HTML tag instead of `/`?

XSL xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;

What is involved in upgrading from XSLT 1.0 to 2.0?  
1 - What are the possible reasons for upgrading?  
2 - What are the possible reasons for NOT upgrading?  
3 - And finally, what are the steps to upgrading?

I&#39;m hoping for an executive summary--the short version :)

Upgrading XSLT 1.0 to XSLT 2.0

I need to save content that containing newlines in some XML attributes, not text.
The method should be picked so that I am able to decode it in XSLT 1.0/ESXLT/XSLT 2.0

What is the best encoding method? 

Please suggest/give some ideas.


How to save newlines in XML attribute?

Short question:
I would like to select all nodes that do not match an attribute (@type !=&#39;x&#39;) but also attribute doesn&#39;t exist (??).
Currently, I&#39;m getting nothing back, because the other nodes have no attribute at all.

Background:
I have some XML. Note that one has type=&quot;feature&quot; but all others have no &#39;type&#39; attr.

    &lt;image type=&quot;feature&quot;&gt;&lt;description&gt;X&lt;/description&gt;&lt;url&gt;media/designer_glass_tile_04.jpg&lt;/url&gt;&lt;height&gt;&lt;/height&gt;&lt;width/&gt;&lt;/image&gt;
    &lt;image&gt;&lt;description&gt;Designer Glass 05&lt;/description&gt;&lt;url&gt;media/designer_glass_tile_05.jpg&lt;/url&gt;&lt;height&gt;&lt;/height&gt;&lt;width/&gt;&lt;/image&gt;
    &lt;image&gt;&lt;description&gt;Designer Glass 06&lt;/description&gt;&lt;url&gt;media/designer_glass_tile_06.jpg&lt;/url&gt;&lt;height&gt;&lt;/height&gt;&lt;width/&gt;&lt;/image&gt;
    &lt;image&gt;&lt;description&gt;Designer Glass 07&lt;/description&gt;&lt;url&gt;media/designer_glass_tile_07.jpg&lt;/url&gt;&lt;height&gt;&lt;/height&gt;&lt;width/&gt;&lt;/image&gt;
    &lt;image&gt;&lt;description&gt;Designer Glass 08&lt;/description&gt;&lt;url&gt;media/designer_glass_tile_08.jpg&lt;/url&gt;&lt;height&gt;&lt;/height&gt;&lt;width/&gt;&lt;/image&gt;


And a XSL style:


            &lt;div id=&quot;gallery&quot;&gt;
            	&lt;div id=&quot;feature&quot; &gt;
            		&lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;image[@type=&#39;feature&#39;]&quot;/&gt;
                &lt;/div&gt;
                &lt;div id=&quot;thumbs&quot;&gt;
            		&lt;xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;image[@type!=&#39;feature&#39;]&quot;/&gt;
            	&lt;/div&gt;
            &lt;/div&gt;


xpath select by attribute when attribute not present

I want to change an XML file to a modified XML file via an XSLT file and XSLT processing tool.

For example: `xsltprocess.exe -src a.xml -dest b.xml -xslt c.xslt`

Can anyone assist me?

Are there any XSLT processing command line tools?

I have XML like this:

    &lt;items&gt;
      &lt;item&gt;
        &lt;products&gt;
          &lt;product&gt;laptop&lt;/product&gt;
          &lt;product&gt;charger&lt;/product&gt;
        &lt;/products&gt;
      &lt;/item&gt;
      &lt;item&gt;
        &lt;products&gt;
          &lt;product&gt;laptop&lt;/product&gt;
          &lt;product&gt;headphones&lt;/product&gt;  
        &lt;/products&gt;  
      &lt;/item&gt;
    &lt;/items&gt;

I want it to output like

&lt;pre&gt;
laptop
charger
headphones
&lt;/pre&gt;

I was trying to use `distinct-values()` but I guess i m doing something wrong. Can anyone tell me how to achieve this using `distinct-values()`? Thanks.

  

    &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&gt;			
      &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;//products/product/text()&quot;&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;
          &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;distinct-values(.)&quot;/&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;				
      &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:template&gt;

but its giving me output like this:

    &lt;li&gt;laptop&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;charger&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;laptop&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;headphones&lt;/li&gt;

How to use XSLT to create distinct values

I have this simple code:

    &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;GroupsServed&quot;&gt;
      &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;/&gt;,&lt;br/&gt;
    &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;&lt;/font&gt;

I&#39;m trying to add a comma for each item added. 

This has 2 flaws:

 1. Case of when there&#39;s only 1 item: the code would unconditionally add a comma.
 2. Case of when there&#39;s more than 1 item: the last item would have a comma to it.

What do you think is the most elegant solution to solve this?

I&#39;m using XSLT 2.0

XSL for-each: how to detect last node?

I want to output single quote around $ID variable in the below **xsl:value-of** xsl statment.

    &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;concat(&#39;process[@Ref=&#39;,$ID,&#39;]&#39;)&quot;&gt;&lt;/xsl:value-of&gt;

currently it prints 

    process@Ref=87799989

Please let me know how can i achieve this.


Thanks in advance,
Keshav

Escape single quote in xslt concat function

I am using XPath to pull data off of a web page.

I have a link that I want to get the href value of. I can reference it through its unique id: `id(&#39;unique-id&#39;)`, but that gives me the string between the `&lt;a&gt;` tags. 

How do I get the value of the `href` attribute?

XPath to get another attribute by id attribute

I am using XML to store a small contact list and trying to write a XSL template that will transform it into a CSV file. The problem I am having is with whitespace in the output.

The output:

    Friend, John, Smith, Home,
    		123 test,
    	   Sebastopol,
    	   California,
    	   12345,
    	 Home 1-800-123-4567, Personal john.smith@gmail.com


 I have indented/spaced both the source XML file and the associated XSL Template to make it easier to read and develop, but all that extra white space is getting itself into the output. The XML itself doesn&#39;t have extra whitespace inside the nodes, just outside of them for formatting, and the same goes for the XSLT.

In order for the CSV file to be valid, each entry needs to be on it&#39;s own line, not broken up. Besides stripping all extra white space from the XML and XSLT (making them just one long line of code), is there another way to get rid of the whitespace in the output?

Edit:
Here is a small XML sample:

    &lt;PHONEBOOK&gt;
    	&lt;LISTING&gt;
    		&lt;FIRST&gt;John&lt;/FIRST&gt;
    		&lt;LAST&gt;Smith&lt;/LAST&gt;
    		&lt;ADDRESS TYPE=&quot;Home&quot;&gt;
    			&lt;STREET&gt;123 test&lt;/STREET&gt;
    			&lt;CITY&gt;Sebastopol&lt;/CITY&gt;
    			&lt;STATE&gt;California&lt;/STATE&gt;
    			&lt;ZIP&gt;12345&lt;/ZIP&gt;
    		&lt;/ADDRESS&gt;
    		&lt;PHONE&gt;1-800-123-4567&lt;/PHONE&gt;
    		&lt;EMAIL&gt;john.smith@gmail.com&lt;/EMAIL&gt;
    		&lt;RELATION&gt;Friend&lt;/RELATION&gt;
    	&lt;/LISTING&gt;
    &lt;/PHONEBOOK&gt;

And here is the XSLT:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; ?&gt;
    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;&gt;
    &lt;xsl:output method=&quot;text&quot; /&gt;
    
     &lt;xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;&gt;
       &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;//LISTING&quot;&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;RELATION&quot; /&gt;&lt;xsl:text&gt;, &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;FIRST&quot; /&gt;&lt;xsl:text&gt;, &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;LAST&quot; /&gt;&lt;xsl:text&gt;, &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    
    	&lt;xsl:if test=&quot;ADDRESS&quot;&gt;
    	 &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;ADDRESS&quot;&gt;
    	   &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
    		&lt;xsl:when test=&quot;@TYPE&quot;&gt;
    		 &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;@TYPE&quot; /&gt;,
    		&lt;/xsl:when&gt;
    			&lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;
    			&lt;xsl:text&gt;Home &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    			&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
    	   &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
    	   &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;STREET&quot; /&gt;,
    	   &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;CITY&quot; /&gt;,
    	   &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;STATE&quot; /&gt;,
    	   &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;ZIP&quot; /&gt;,
    	 &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
    	&lt;/xsl:if&gt;
    
    	&lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;PHONE&quot;&gt;
    	  &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
    	   &lt;xsl:when test=&quot;@TYPE&quot;&gt;
    		&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;@TYPE&quot; /&gt;  
    	   &lt;/xsl:when&gt;
    	   &lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;&lt;xsl:text&gt;Home &lt;/xsl:text&gt;&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
    	  &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
    	 &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;  /&gt;&lt;xsl:text  &gt;, &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    	&lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
    
    	&lt;xsl:if test=&quot;EMAIL&quot;&gt;
    	 &lt;xsl:for-each select=&quot;EMAIL&quot;&gt;
    	  &lt;xsl:choose&gt;
    	   &lt;xsl:when test=&quot;@TYPE&quot;&gt;
    		&lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;@TYPE&quot; /&gt;&lt;xsl:text  &gt; &lt;/xsl:text&gt; 
    	   &lt;/xsl:when&gt;
    	   &lt;xsl:otherwise&gt;&lt;xsl:text  &gt;Personal &lt;/xsl:text&gt;&lt;/xsl:otherwise&gt;
    	  &lt;/xsl:choose&gt;
    	  &lt;xsl:value-of select=&quot;.&quot;  /&gt;&lt;xsl:text  &gt;, &lt;/xsl:text&gt;
    	 &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
    	&lt;/xsl:if&gt;
    	&lt;xsl:text&gt;&amp;#10;&amp;#13;&lt;/xsl:text&gt;
       &lt;/xsl:for-each&gt;
     &lt;/xsl:template&gt;
    
    &lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt;

XSLT - remove whitespace from template

I&#39;d like to take data from some XML files and transform them into a new XML document. However, I do not want the definition of a namespace in the XSLT to occur in the result document. 

In other words:

source:

    &lt;Namespace:Root xmlns:Namespace=&quot;http://www.something.com&quot;&gt;

stylesheet:

    &lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;?&gt;
    &lt;xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot;
    xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;
    xmlns:Namespace=&quot;http://www.something.com&quot;&gt;

result:

    &lt;resultRoot xmlns:Namespace=&quot;http://www.something.com&quot;&gt;
    &lt;!--I don&#39;t want the Namespace definition above--&gt;

I am using msxsl for the transformation.

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