XSL matches in RSA/eclipse, not with Xalan 2.5.1

[pgreaves]

hi there

i have developed a style sheet that works fine in the XML perspective
of Rational Software architect, but when i add it to my application, it
appears to match no nodes.

my XSL that matches nodes looks like this:

<xsl:styleshe et
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0" xmlns:xalan="ht tp://xml.apache.org/xslt"
xmlns:crm="http ://w3.ibm.com/xmlns/ibmww/crm"
xmlns:ci="http://w3.ibm.com/xmlns/ibmww/ci"
xmlns:foo="http ://w3.ibm.com/xmlns/ibmww/com"
exclude-result-prefixes="foo ci crm xalan">

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<locations>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//foo:Geography" />
</locations>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foo:Geog raphy">
<xsl:for-each select="descend ant:: //blah blah

and we're fine from there : i get a lot of <location> child elements of
my parent <locations> element, so the select="//foo:Geography" and the
match are working ok. but then i run it inside my java app which has
specific libs from xalan/xerces ( the DOM is the input XML instance and
that is fine, and the stylesheet is correctly located):

private String getLocations(Do cument source) throws Exception{

Writer writer = new StringWriter();
InputStream styleSheet =
this.getClass() .getResourceAsS tream("/locations.xsl") ;

TransformerFact ory transFactory = TransformerFact ory.newInstance ();
Templates template =
transFactory.ne wTemplates(new StreamSource(st yleSheet));

Transformer transformer = template.newTra nsformer();

DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(sourc e);

transformer.tra nsform(
domSource,
new javax.xml.trans form.stream.Str eamResult(write r));
String result = writer.toString ();
return result;
}

i get an empty instance : basically like this:

<locations />

i am wondering if its a namespaces issue? it seems to me that
<xsl:apply-templates select="//foo:Geography" />

is matching no nodes in the application, but plenty in the IDE. can
anyone help here? do i need to inform the API classes more
specifically about the namespace?

regs and tia,

peter

[pgreaves]

i got around it with this post:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...0084b2ebca84ef

pg******@uk.ibm .com wrote:

hi there

i have developed a style sheet that works fine in the XML perspective
of Rational Software architect, but when i add it to my application, it
appears to match no nodes.
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