FM Returning null from Node

[animation_master]

I have an XSL document that transforms my XML document just fine -- except in FileMaker 8. The whole process works fine in TestXSLT, but...

FM accepts both documents, offers to map the Results to the proper Field that exists in the database, returns no errors, reports that it has added one Record, etc. But after all is said and done, the new Record has no data in the Field.

There is a whole lot of nesting in the XML, so I declare exactly the element I need by using the //ElementName XPath function.

Here is a snippet.

	

		



	

		0

		0

			

				

				

				

			

	



	

The field DataSource should contain the attribute of the node DataSource, but it contains nothing. Any ideas?

[Martin Brändle]

the //DataSource XPath selects all DataSource elements and their descendants, but not their attribute values.

E.g. if you have something like this:

then must return an empty string.

I assume, however, that your data structure is rather like this:

Then the following XPath should work to extract the attribute values:

Hence, it seems, that FM8 did interpret the XSLT correctly, but TestXSLT not.

[animation_master]

That works, but it returns every value at that level. I want all levels. I have an XML file of the form:

    

          0001

          

               0121

          

          

               0152

               0032

          

          0444

     

The output I want is

0001

0121

0152

0032

0444

I can't find a way to do that without specifying one node at a time.

[Martin Brändle]

Now, what do you really want? The attribute values or the element values (check your first post, there you said attribute in the last sentence)?

I think we have to solve that problem with an xsl:for-each :

This should add a linefeed after each value.