Question

I am trying to do a match for two scenarios:

1. String contains character other than just a number
2. String has more than 8 characters.

So the XSLT is:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="record[translate(employeeNumber, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHILKLMNOIPQRSTUVWXYZ!£$%^', '')]"/>
    <xsl:template match="record[string-length(employeeNumber) &lt; 9]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Test Data is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
    <records>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>12345678</employeeNumber>
        </record>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>1234567A</employeeNumber>
        </record>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>12345678A</employeeNumber>
        </record>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>123456789</employeeNumber>
        </record>
    </records>
</request>

This is what should be returned:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<request>
    <records>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>1234567A</employeeNumber>
        </record>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>12345678A</employeeNumber>
        </record>
        <record>
            <employeeNumber>123456789</employeeNumber>
        </record>
    </records>
</request>

However as i said in Oxygen i am getting the error:

Severity: warning
Description: Ambiguous rule match for /request[1]/records[1]/record[1]
Matches both "record[string-length(employeeNumber) < 9]" on line 13 of file:/C:/Users/mdown/Desktop/Untitled21.xsl
and "record[translate(employeeNumber, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHILKLMNOIPQRSTUVWXYZ!£$%^', '')]" on line 12 of file:/C:/Users/mdown/Desktop/Untitled21.xsl

The reason for this is because it is matching both rules, however this should not be a problem. How would i alter the XSLT to support these options.

Answer 1

It looks to me as if you are getting a warning, not an error. If you want to avoid the warning then decide which template should have higher priority and set that e.g. <xsl:template match="foo" priority="5"/> as needed.