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Sammy
Sammy

Reputation: 121

Next element name

I am trying to get the name of the next element name using a common Xpath and a generic XSL. But unable to get the name of the element.

Input 1:

<test>
 <userId>we</userId>
 <userId1>
 <testy:tool/>
 </userId1>
</test>

Input 2:

<test>
 <userId>we</userId>
 <userId1>
 <testy:hammer/>
 </userId1>
</test>

Xsl I am using:

<xsl:stylesheet
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    version="2.0"
    >
    <xsl:template match="operationName">

        <xsl:value-of select="local-name(/test/userId1)"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="local-name(/test/userId1)" mode="next"/>

    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="testy" mode="next">
        <xsl:value-of select="(following::testy | descendant::testy)[1]"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

But this always displays the value of UserID. Can anyone point what am I doing wrong here?

Cheers!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (1)

LarsH
LarsH

Reputation: 27996

Your XSLT, as presented, has no templates that match any of the input XML elements. So it ends up using the default template. In effect, this outputs the concatenation of all text values in the document, i.e. we.

I'm guessing that you want to output the name of the next (descendant, sibling or other) element, relative to the userId1 element. Some XSLT that is closer to what you appear to want is:

<xsl:stylesheet
    xmlns:testy="http://example.testy.com"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    version="2.0">

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="/test/userId1" mode="next"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="userId1" mode="next">
        <xsl:value-of select="name((following::testy:* | descendant::testy:*)[1])"/>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

To make it work, you'll need to fix your input to be well-formed in regard to namespaces:

<test xmlns:testy="http://example.testy.com">
  <userId>we</userId>
  <userId1>
    <testy:tool/>
  </userId1>
</test>

Upvotes: 2

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