XML conversion with XSLT

Question

I have an XML document and XSLT style sheet to change up how it displays. Right now I just want the XSLT document to make "Hello World!" show up when the XML document is run, but I am just getting a display of the XML document on the web page.

Here is the XML document (trial Doc.xml):

<?xml-styelsheet type="text/xsl" href="trialDoc.xsl"?> <people> <person gender="M"> <firstName>Sam</firstName> <lastName>McAllister</lastName> <age>25</age> </person> <person gender="F"> <firstName>Kris</firstName> <lastName>Paolini</lastName> <age>24</age> </person> <person gender="M"> <firstName>Bob</firstName> <lastName>Turring</lastName> <age>19</age> </person> </people>

And here is my XSL Document (trialDoc.xsl):

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> Hello World! </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

What am I doing wrong?

Petr Kozelka · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-29 23:51:26Z

First, your XML has a typo; you probably wanted

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="trialDoc.xsl"?>

Then, your XSL should produce XML tree - enclose your output with some XML structure with single node at the top:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <h1>Hello World!</h1> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

Alternatively, instruct the XSL processor to generate text output:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> Hello World! </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

I was about to say, I found that misspelling and it worked the way I wanted it too. I was having it generate text output. Thanks for the sharp eye.

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