Lacy wrote:
> I'm using XSL to scrape and display data from a google spreadsheet.
> 
> Working great except for one thing - it displays the channel info even
> though I'm not calling that info anywhere?   (It displays:  atom:id,
> lastBuildDate, category domain, title, link, managing Editor, and the
> openSearch variables.  Basically - everything within the main channel
> that has a value. )
> 
> It displays it unformatted - just a straight block of text with no
> spaces.
> 
> Using this to process:
> [code]
>     // Load the XML source
>     $xml = new DOMDocument;
>     $xml->load('http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/
> tqBgup5Bmbdgh-rgyxqh2Pw/od6/public/basic?alt=rss');
>     $xsl = new DOMDocument;
>     $xsl->load('calendarparse.xsl');
>     // Configure the transformer
>     $proc = new XSLTProcessor;
>     $proc->importStyleSheet($xsl); // attach the xsl rules
>     echo $proc->transformToXML($xml);
> [/code]
> 
> Result File - http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/vsg/atvandy/
> Source XML - http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/tqBgup5Bmbdgh-rgyxqh2Pw/od6/public/basic?alt=rss
> XSL - http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/vsg/atvandy/calendarparse.xsl
> 
> Thoughts?  What am I missing?  I can't figure out why it's displaying
> information I'm not calling.

Well you have nothing but two templates, one with match="/", one with 
match="item". How do expect the processing ends up with your 
match="item" template? That is because of built-in templates that does
   <xsl:apply-templates/>
So that way your match="item" template is applied but that way also 
other nodes are processed and the built-in templates for text nodes does 
<xsl:value-of select="."/> so that is why you see all those text values 
in your output.
As you don't want that you will either need to ensure that you process 
only 'item' elements by doing
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="rss/channel/item"/>
  <xsl:template>
or you will need to override the built-in template for text nodes by doing
   <xsl:template match="text()"/>


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