I think that the problem isn't with your XSLT code, but with the way in
which you are running it.

But I don't know anything about Sharepoint (MOSS) etc.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Penny [mailto:d_penny@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 02 February 2009 20:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Identity transform of SP WP not working
>
> As a newbie at XSLT and not a guru of anything I cannot get
> the identity transforms below to do anything. My environment
> is IE6.0, SharePoint (MOSS), SharePointDesigner, no Visual-anything.
>
> Goal: I have a 3rd party WP that works fine. I replaced ALL
> of its XSLT with that from MS FAB40 template which does horiz
> bar graphs. It worked fine which gave me the confidence to go
> ahead and mess with the XSLT to produce other displays. As a
> first step I thought I should look at the raw stuff being
> generated by the WP so that I could write intelligent XSLT.
>
> I have browsed this forum, Mangamo's "Cookbook", Jen
> Tennison's book and tried
> 6-7 variations on the identity transforms below. All I get is
> a blank, white page. I also paste snippet below the first
> 20-30 lines from the XSLT that successfully display data.
>
> I have mixed the "match line" and the "apply-template" lines,
> and tried "copy-of", etc. etc. etc. What am I doing wrong -
> this has got to be simple.
>
> Again my goal is to see the raw data from the WP so I can
> write my own XSLT.
>
> ===============identity #1 from this forum (namespace no
> good) <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
> <xsl:template match="*|comment()|pi(*)">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:process-children/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> =====================end #1
>
> ====================identity #2, wwbota xslt transforms lib
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>  <xsl:template match="@*|*|processing-instruction()|comment()">
>  <xsl:copy>
>   <xsl:apply-templates
> select="*|@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()" />
>   </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
>   </xsl:stylesheet>
> =====================end #2
>
> =========================identity #3 (full namespaces from
> display that
> works)
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl
> msxsl ddwrt"
> xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView
> /runtime"
> xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20"
> xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/Dat
> aView/designer"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
> xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
> xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal">
> <xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates
> select="*|@*|text()|processing-instruction()|comment()" />
>     </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ======================end #3
>
> =======================snippet WP that works <xsl:stylesheet
> version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="xsl msxsl ddwrt"
> xmlns:ddwrt="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/DataView
> /runtime"
> xmlns:asp="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ASPNET/20"
> xmlns:__designer="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WebParts/v2/Dat
> aView/designer"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
> xmlns:SharePoint="Microsoft.SharePoint.WebControls"
> xmlns:ddwrt2="urn:frontpage:internal">
> 	<xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
> 	<xsl:decimal-format NaN=""/>
> 	<xsl:param name="dvt_apos">'</xsl:param>
> 	<xsl:variable name="dvt_1_automode">0</xsl:variable>
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<xsl:call-template name="dvt_1"/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	  <xsl:template name="dvt_1">
>     <xsl:param name="ParentPath"/>
>     <xsl:variable name="dvt_StyleName">Table</xsl:variable>
>     <xsl:variable name="Rows" select="/dsQueryResponse/Rows/Row"/>
>     <xsl:variable name="dvt_RowCount" select="count($Rows)" />
>     <xsl:variable name="IsEmpty" select="$dvt_RowCount = 0" />
>     <xsl:call-template name="dvt_1.footer">
>       <xsl:with-param name="Rows" select="$Rows" />
>     </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:template>
> ==========================snippet end
>
> Dick Penny