XSLT on XML with namespaces not working
Question
I have XML that gets sent off to a third-party vendor as part of a mature feed. The XML is a bit suspect with its usage of namespaces, but I most likely cannot change it at this point since the feed is mature and not to be tinkered with.
I am trying to set up a XSLT template to display the contents of each XML feed as an HTML table. And running into problems.
Below is a simplified version of what I'm trying, selecting just one element. If I can get past whatever I'm missing, I can probably figure out the rest myself.
Partial XML snippet:
<nis:Jobs xmlns:nis="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS" xmlns="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster http://schemas.monster.com/Current/XSD/Job.xsd http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS http://schemas.monster.com/Current/Extensions/NIS/XSD/NISJob.xsd">
<nis:NISJob>
<Job jobRefCode="13425840" jobAction="addOrUpdate" jobComplete="true">
<RecruiterReference>
<UserName>hj45_32179</UserName>
</RecruiterReference>
<CompanyReference>
<CompanyXCode>xhj45_36079x</CompanyXCode>
<CompanyName>
<![CDATA[Clarion Hotel]]>
</CompanyName>
</CompanyReference>
<Channel monsterId="1180"/>
<JobInformation>
<JobTitle>
<![CDATA[Front Desk Agent, Bartender, Houseperson]]>
</JobTitle>
<JobType monsterId="1"/>
<JobStatus monsterId="4"/>
<DisableApplyOnline>true</DisableApplyOnline>
<HideCompanyInfo>true</HideCompanyInfo>
</JobInformation>
</Job>
<nis:AdditionalProducts/>
</nis:NISJob>
</nis:Jobs>
XLT attempt:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:nis="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS" xmlns="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster http://schemas.monster.com/Current/XSD/Job.xsd http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS http://schemas.monster.com/Current/Extensions/NIS/XSD/NISJob.xsd"
>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ads in Feed</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>CompanyXCode</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="nis:Jobs/nis:NISJob">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Job/CompanyReference/CompanyXCode"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I have tried this in PHP using the XSLTProcessor, and I've also tried it in W3Schools' Tryit Editor ( http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/tryxslt.asp?xmlfile=cdcatalog&xsltfile=cdcatalog_ex2 ) with no luck.
I'm guessing that there's a problem with the uneven namespace usage in the XML. Any hopes of working around that that anyone knows of?
Thanks in advance!
2 answers
solution1
1 ACCPTED 2014-02-19 16:39:15
Your code works fine for me (Saxon 6.5.5). However, an html element does not need a namespace and not all values are retrieved from the file. So, you need to rethink your usage of namespaces.
EDIT : A second attempt at writing your stylesheet is below. I have used just two namespaces, all elements in your input XML are either in the http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS or http://schemas.monster.com/Monster namespace.
The very first line of your input XML declares a default namespace , which is
xmlns="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster"
Any elements that are not prefixed explicitly, implicitly belong to this namespace. That is why you have to refer to the Job element as mon:Job , for instance.
Finally, use exclude-result-prefixes to prevent XSLT from outputting unwanted namespaces.
Stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:nis="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS"
xmlns:mon="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster"
exclude-result-prefixes="nis mon">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ads in Feed</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>CompanyXCode</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="nis:Jobs/nis:NISJob">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="mon:Job/mon:CompanyReference/mon:CompanyXCode"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ads in Feed</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>CompanyXCode</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>xhj45_36079x</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
solution2
0 2014-02-19 16:45:52
The namespace definition and usage in your XSLT is wrong.
Them XML file uses two namespaces:
- http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS - all elements with prefix
nis - http://schemas.monster.com/Monster - all elements without a prefix
For Xpath you need to define you own prefixes. That can be the same prefix like in the XML document, or a different one.
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:nis="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster/NIS"
xmlns:monster="http://schemas.monster.com/Monster"
>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>Ads in Feed</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>CompanyXCode</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="nis:Jobs/nis:NISJob">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="monster:Job/monster:CompanyReference/monster:CompanyXCode"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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