On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:26:10PM +0530, Rahul wrote: > Daniel, > Following is the output from xsltproc. Somehow I feel is that root-cause > of the problem could be in xpath.c in libxml, where whitespaces are > stripped from xpath.
I don't think so, the problem is that you just didn't even tried to debug your code, blindingly assuming it was right and that hence my code was wrong even if I repeatedly asked you to check your code first. > >>My Input XML is: > >><?xml version="1.0"?> > >><precli> > >> <param> > >> <param-parent>rahul anil pandey tiwari sharma > >> babu</param-parent> > >> </param> > >></precli> > >> > >>My XSLT File is: > >> > >><?xml version="1.0"?> > >><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > >>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; > >>xmlns:str="http://exslt.org/strings"; exclude-result-prefixes="str"> > >> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/> > >> <xsl:template match="/"> > >> <crypto> > >> <ike> > >> <key> > >> <xsl:for-each > >> select="/precli/param/param-parent"> > >><xsl:element > >>name="{normalize-space(substring-before(substring-after(.,'pandey'),' '))}"/> > >><!-- <xsl:element > >>name="{normalize-space(substring-before(.,' '))}"/> --> > >> </xsl:for-each> > >> </key> > >> </ike> > >> </crypto> > >> </xsl:template> > >></xsl:stylesheet> substring-after(.,'pandey') returns the string " tiwari sharma babu" which you would have found if you had instrumented the code as I asked for in my previous mail. The string starts with ' ' so running substring-before(substring-after(.,'pandey'), ' ') returns an empty string, which is perfectly normal according to the definition of those operations: you ask for everything before the first space, the string starts with a space, so you get an empty string: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#function-substring-before trivially searching for 'pandey ' first eliminates the leading space and avoid an empty string. In the future please debug your code before assuming my code is broken, and follow the instructions that I give instead of just pushing the problem at me, being forced to point you publicly to your mistakes is not something I enjoy, I would rather spend my time on something else. Thank you in advance, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
