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XSL issues with XML elements having a COLON

I'm running an XSLT against a 3rd party XML file that has element names that contain colons.

<xccdf:TestResult xmlns:xccdf="http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/1.2"
  <xccdf:benchmark href="ine" id="abs"/><xccdf:title xml:lang="en-US">TestConten</xccdf:title>
....
....

Now in my XSL file, when i try to extract the value of an atribute or the data under an element

<xsl:value-of select="xccdf:TestResult/xccdf:benchmark/@id"/>
<xsl:value-of select="xccdf:TestResult/xccdf:title"/>

I get no value. I get empty data.

In the XSLT, i declared the namespace too.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xccdf="http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/1.2">

Am not sure how to extract the value of the element or attribute!! Any pointers would be appreciated.

Solution

  • In your linked stylesheet, you declare the namespace as xmlns:xccdfSchema="http://checklists.nist.gov/xccdf/1.1", so your XPath expressions in the stylesheet should actually be prefixed by xccdfSchema and not xccdf. – helderdarocha May 30 at 13:22

    The suggestion made by @helderdarocha worked.

    All i needed to do was the set the namespace and use xccdfSchema:ElementName in the XPath expressions