rosemm wrote:

> i have a file which I get from a vendor. we are using a industry
> schema, hr-xml. however, I can't seem to get any XPath expresions to
> work when i receive the file. i think i have pinpointed the problem but
> now I need a solution.
> 
> I have the following template
> 
> <xsl:template match="//PersonName">
> 		<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(FamilyName)"/>
> 		<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(GivenName)"/>
> 		<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(MiddleName)"/>
> 		<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
> 		<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(Affix)"/>
> 		<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> The beginning of my xml file looks like this (this is where the problem
> is)
> 
> <Enrollment xmlns="http://ns.hr-xml.org/2004-08-02"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="http://ns.hr-xml.org/2004-08-02
> Enrollment.xsd" creationDate="2005-03-31T11:47:26-06:00">
> 
> With this I get no data out of my file.

The elements are probably in the default namespace so to select them 
with an XPath 1.0 expression you need to bind a prefix to that namespace 
in the stylesheet e.g.
   <xsl:stylesheet
     xmlns:hr="http://ns.hr-xml.org/2004-08-02"
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
then use that prefix in your XPath expression e.g.
   //hr:Person
or
   <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(hr:FamilyName)"/>

See also
   <http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/34022/fid/1753>

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