XSLT Transformation failed

[Anil Prasad]

Hi Team,

I have one xslt and this is validated and well form and not any issue in oxygen editor or saxon parser for transformation or any kind of operation but i have use this xslt in through lxml and try to transform our file through xslt function i have get e below error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Anil\PTest\TEST\test.py", line 5, in <module>
    transform = ET.XSLT(xslt)
  File "src\lxml\xslt.pxi", line 410, in lxml.etree.XSLT.__init__
lxml.etree.XSLTParseError: XSLT-variable: Failed to compile the XPath expression ''January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December''.

Kindly check and suggest how to resolve this issue.

Below is version report:
Python : sys.version_info(major=3, minor=6, micro=5, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
lxml.etree : (4, 2, 5, 0)
libxml used : (2, 9, 5)
libxml compiled : (2, 9, 5)
libxslt used : (1, 1, 30)
libxslt compiled : (1, 1, 30)

Thanks & Regards,
Anil Prasad

[scoder (scoder)]

Well, that doesn't look like an XPath expression to me. Could you copy&paste the relevant part of your XSLT sxript? You are using XSLT 1.0, right?

[Anil Prasad (anilkumarg4)]

No i am using xslt 2.0 and below is my code of that part:

<xsl:template match="date">
      <xsl:choose>
         <xsl:when test="parent::leg:assentdate|parent::leg:enactdate and contains(.,'; ')">
            <xsl:variable name="month"
                          select="'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'"/>
            <xsl:variable name="DATE" select="tokenize(.,' ')"/>
            <xsl:choose>
               <xsl:when test="not(@*)">
                  <xsl:analyze-string select="."
                                      regex="([0-9]+)\s+([a-zA-Z]+)\s+([0-9]+);\s+([0-9]+)\s+([a-zA-Z]+)\s+([0-9]+)">
                     <xsl:matching-substring>
                        <xsl:element name="date">
                           <xsl:variable name="DAY" select="number($DATE[1])"/>
                           <xsl:attribute name="day" select="format-number($DAY, '00')"/>
                           <xsl:attribute name="month" select="format-number(index-of($month,$DATE[2]),'00')"/>
                           <xsl:attribute name="year" select="replace($DATE[3],';','')"/>
                           <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(.,'; ')"/>
                        </xsl:element>
                        <xsl:element name="date">
                           <xsl:variable name="DAY" select="number($DATE[4])"/>
                           <xsl:attribute name="day" select="format-number($DAY, '00')"/>
                           <xsl:attribute name="month" select="format-number(index-of($month,$DATE[5]),'00')"/>
                           <xsl:attribute name="year" select="$DATE[6]"/>
                           <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(.,'; ')"/>
                        </xsl:element>
                     </xsl:matching-substring>
                     <xsl:non-matching-substring/>
                  </xsl:analyze-string>
               </xsl:when>
               <xsl:otherwise>
                  <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
               </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
         </xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:element name="{name()}"><!--Old code: <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>-->
               <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test="parent::pubdate">
                     <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
                  </xsl:when>
                  <xsl:when test="parent::leg:assentdate|parent::leg:enactdate">
                     <xsl:variable name="month"
                                   select="'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'"/>
                     <xsl:variable name="DATE" select="tokenize(normalize-space(.),' ')"/>
                     <xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="not(@*)">
                           <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="([0-9]+)\s+([a-zA-Z]+)\s+([0-9]+)">
                              <xsl:matching-substring>
                                 <xsl:variable name="DAY" select="number($DATE[1])"/>
                                 <xsl:attribute n...

[scoder (scoder)]

libxslt does not implement XSLT 2.0.