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XSLT Stylesheet test for special character

Hi All,

 

I need some assistance to compare a string value of an node before deciding on what child element/attribute to extract from. Here are the detail as follows:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

<!DOCTYPE html (View Source for full doctype...)>

- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:html="http://www.w3..org/1999/xhtml">

- <head>

- <body

........

- <div id="container">

+ <div id="header">

<div id="postmark" />

- <div id="content">

+ <div id="as1">

.......

<h1>Employee Detail</h1>

- <p>

<strong>Firstname:</strong>

<a shape="rect" title="Firstname of employee">John</a>

</p>

- <p>

<strong>Surname:</strong>

<a shape="rect" title="Lastname of employee">Smith</a>

</p>

- <p>

<strong>Date of birth:</strong>

12/01/1932

</p>

- <p>

<strong>Sex:</strong>

M

</p>

- <p>

<strong>Interest:</strong>

<br clear="none" />

Tennis

<br clear="none" />

Movie

<br clear="none" />

.....

 

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"

exclude-result-prefixes="ns">

( 1 ) <xsl:template match="/">

( 2 ) <employee>

( 3 ) <xsl:for-each select="/ns:html/ns:body/ns:div[@id='content']/ns:p">

( 4 ) <xsl:value-of select="ns:strong"/>

( 5 ) <xsl:choose>

( 6 ) <xsl:when test="Firstname:">

( 7 ) <firstname><xsl:value-of select="."/></firstname>

( 8 ) </xsl:when>

( 9 ) <xsl:otherwise>

( 10 ) <firstname>Unknown</firstname>

( 11 ) </xsl:otherwise>

( 12 ) </xsl:choose>

( 13 ) </xsl:for-each>

( 14 ) </employee>

( 15 ) </xsl:template>

( 17 )

( 18 ) </xsl:stylesheet>

 

I have no problem with test="Firstname" (line 6) but the ":" appears to be a special character that needs additional syntax (possible escape character) to pick up "Firstname:" together.

 

The error message has something like: Invalid QName on line 6 of stylesheet....

Your assistance would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jack



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