How to grab attributes of XML Data

[General_HQ]

I have what I am sure is a simple, stupid question, but I have spent longer than I should have trying to find the answer, so I thought I'd come here.I have XML data that looks like this:<img id="L001.002.001.P005-001" src="./images/p005-001.gif" alt="Black and white photo of a man during the Depression" /> I have to write some XSL that will recognize that line, ignore the id and src values, and simply grab the alt text, if any. What I tried was:<xsl:template match="//img"><xsl:if test= "@alt != ''">\par <xsl:value-of select="@alt"/> \par </xsl:if></xsl:template>Hoping to produce output that read:\par Black and white photo of a man during the Depression \parbut nothing seems to be coming out. Any ideas what I could be doing wrong?

[boen_robot]

Strange. I tryed that and it worked. Something other odd happened though. I added this line to your old XML with the table I still keep on my XSLT bag'o'tricks. Then after applying a stylesheet to it that contained ONLY the template here, I saw the desired output + your table linearized .[edit] Fixed it, by using "for-each" instead of a template match. Like this:

<xsl:template match="/"><xsl:for-each select="//img"><xsl:if test= "@alt != ''">\par <xsl:value-of select="@alt"/> \par </xsl:if></xsl:for-each></xsl:template>

Or if you really need it as a template:

<xsl:template match="/"><xsl:apply-templates select="//img"/></xsl:template><xsl:template match="//img"><xsl:if test= "@alt != ''">\par <xsl:value-of select="@alt"/> \par </xsl:if></xsl:template>

Note: tested in FF.[/edit]

Edited June 1, 2006 by boen_robot

[General_HQ]

Never mind. I knew it was something stupid, and sure enough it was.The code was right - the testcase was wrong.I had bad code - fixed it to the above - and thought I was testing my fixed version but was really still using the old bad code.sigh. Sorry to bother you.