Gary, Oops,in section 2., earlier, I meant: <xsl:value-of select="$myRTF/DOCUMENT/ELEM1/ELEM1A"/> not <xsl:value-of select="$myRTF/MYDOCUMENT/ELEM1/ELEM1A"/> thanks Bart Jenkins, CTO Globeflow SA Cardenal Marcelo Spinola 2, D1, Planta 6 28016 Madrid, Spain telephone: +34 667 65 10 75 -----Original Message----- From: Bart W.Jenkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:47 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: UPDATE: How to correctly process, via Xpath, result-tree-frag ments returned by JAVA extensions? More questions... Gary, Ok. I got your sample to work also and now I know why... There are 2 things different with your sample... 1. You use the xsl:variable option in which you place the select as the attribute in the xsl:variable element name instead of in the element body. That is, you used: <xsl:variable name="myRTF" select='Ext:getMyXMLStr()'/> and this works, however... <xsl:variable name="myRTF"> <xsl:value-of select='Ext:getMyXMLStr()'/> </xsl:variable> does NOT, and I thought the two forms of declaration were equivalent. 2. Also, you don't use the top level element name in the XPATH call, that is, you used... <xsl:value-of select="$myRTF/ELEM1/ELEM1A"/> instead of... <xsl:value-of select="$myRTF/MYDOCUMENT/ELEM1/ELEM1A"/> which surprised me! The second form is the correct one if you use the document() function to pull in an XML file from a URI, that is, if my declaration for getting the xml file had been... <xsl:variable name="client" select="document('simple2.xml')"/> and this contained the same data as before, you would need to use $myRTF/MYDOCUMENT/... Is this difference from the document() function an implementation interpretation issue, a peculiarity of the spec, or a mistake? Thanks for your help...I'm 'unblocked' now... Bart Jenkins, CTO Globeflow SA Cardenal Marcelo Spinola 2, D1, Planta 6 28016 Madrid, Spain telephone: +34 667 65 10 75 -----Original Message----- From: Gary L Peskin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: UPDATE: How to correctly process, via Xpath, result-tree-fragments returned by JAVA extensions? More questions... Bart -- I just copied the extension function verbatim from your email and it works fine. I'm using the following stylesheet: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:Ext="node1" xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan"; exclude-result-prefixes="Ext xalan"> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:variable name="myRTF" select='Ext:getMyXMLStr()'/> <xsl:value-of select="$myRTF/ELEM1/ELEM1A"/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> If you can't figure out the problem, please send along your exact stylesheet, input document, and stack trace of the exception that you're receiving. Thanks, Gary "Bart W.Jenkins" wrote: > > Gary, > I put your sample code in, verbatim, with the fix and now I get a "null" > TransformerException. > Also, do I need to use NodeList or NodeSet? > > Any ideas? > > Bart Jenkins, CTO > Globeflow SA > Cardenal Marcelo Spinola 2, D1, Planta 6 > 28016 Madrid, Spain > telephone: +34 667 65 10 75
