The Cube element is in namespace
"http://www.ecb.int/vocabulary/2002-08-01/eurofxref", so you need to
access it using a namespace prefix that is bound to that namespace.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> David Silcott
> Sent: 30 November 2002 05:45
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> Subject:  parsing ECB xml file
> 
> 
> 
> hello i am fairly new to xml and i am trying to
> implement a currency converter using rates which are
> updated regularly. I've found an xml document produced
> by the ECB, http://www.ecb.int/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-daily.xml
> , but i am having problems extracting values of the
> attributes of the 'Cube' elements from the file.. what
> am i doing wrong?
> The following is a simple xsl script which i tried. 
> ================= <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>                
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                
> xmlns:gesmes="http://www.gesmes.org/xml/2002-08-01"
>                
> xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict"> 
> 
> 	<xsl:output method="html" />
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<xsl:for-each select="gesmes:Envelope/Cube/Cube">
> 			<xsl:value-of select="Cube/@currency"/>
> 		</xsl:for-each>
> 
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ================
> 
> i can successfully exctract the contents of the 
> 'gesmes:subject' and 'gesmes:name' elements however.
> 
> Any answers?		
> 
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