Duplicate attribute problem

[FMAS]

As a newbie I am trying to transform an XLIFF file, but I get a
duplicate attribute error in the following code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xliff
xmlns:sdl="http://sdl.com/FileTypes/SdlXliff/1.0" version="1.2"
sdl:version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2">

I have tried without the sdl or xsl namespace, but then I get other
parsing errors.

What am I doing wrong here?

[Julian F. Reschke]

You have a duplicate attribute ("version").

I think this is a case where the error message really is helpful, isn't it?

[FMAS]

On 6 Dez., 23:27, "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.resc...@nospam-

greenbytes.de> wrote:
> FMAS wrote:
> > As a newbie I am trying to transform an XLIFF file, but I get a

> >duplicate attributeerror in the following code:

>
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> > <xliff
> > xmlns:sdl="http://sdl.com/FileTypes/SdlXliff/1.0" version="1.2"
> >sdl:version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"
> > xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2">
>

> > I have tried without thesdlorxslnamespace, but then I get other

> > parsing errors.
>
> > What am I doing wrong here?
>

> You have aduplicate attribute("version").

>
> I think this is a case where the error message really is helpful, isn't it?

I had thought indeed that the "version=1.0 may be the cause of my
problem because the line/column information pointed at it, but if I
delete the version attribute I get the error message:
"Required attribute '{http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform}version' is
missing."
If I just modify it I get a "duplicate attribute " error message.
I do not really understand what the problem is.

[Martin Honnen]

FMAS wrote:

> I had thought indeed that the "version=1.0 may be the cause of my
> problem because the line/column information pointed at it, but if I
> delete the version attribute I get the error message:
> "Required attribute '{http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform}version' is
> missing."
> If I just modify it I get a "duplicate attribute " error message.
> I do not really understand what the problem is.

If you want to write an XSLT stylesheet with a literal result element as
the root element then it has to have an xsl:version attribute in the
namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform e.g.

<xliff
xmlns:sdl="http://sdl.com/FileTypes/SdlXliff/1.0" version="1.2"
sdl:version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xsl:version="1.0"

xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:xliff:document:1.2">

Or you need to write a stylesheet where the root element is
xsl:stylesheet (or xsl:transform) and then has a 'version' attribute in
no namespace.

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

[Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]]

You have 2 version attributes in the default (xmlns) namespace, and
may only have one.

So first you had 2 identical attributes (dfisallowed in XML) which is
what the parser is complaining about. Then you specfied a value "1.2"
for the version attribute, which again isn't valid. Probably a
cut+paste error, but you need to check closely what you're pasting.

It looks to me like your intention is to process the items as XSL, so
there should be a single version attribute which would be either

version="1.0"
or
version="2.0"

Those are the only valid values I'm aware of for XSLT, so next remove
the spare version="1.2" attribute first, then see if the stylesheet
parses when it contains version="1.0" only. Change if to "2.0" if you
are using XSLT2 procesing features.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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