Importing xml with xslt in InDesign CS4

Question

Hello All,
i need someone's help who's an expert at xml and xslt features of InDesign CS4.
i work in publication, besides our magazines we produce yearbooks with lots of repetative information fields in them. we get the data in xml fromat which we flow in to InDesign. the xml files are very simple, here's an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<Root>
<Story>
      <Country> Afganistan </Country>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Kam Air </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code> 1 </Company_Code>
   <Address_text> 1205 Qalla Fatuha </Address_text>
   <Address_text> P.O.Box 456 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Kabul </Address_text>
   <Address_text> 22004 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Afganistan </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: [phone] </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: [phone] </Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.flykamair.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text> Abdul Raquib, chief Executive <Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text> ([email protected]) </Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A1 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
     <Country> Albania </Country>
etc.
</Story>
</Root>
the problem is we don't want <Company_Code> and <Job_code> elements displayed in the InDesign file.
so we created an xslt file that shoud get rid of these two unwanted elements (obviously the xml file above was pointed to this xslt file)
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<Root>
<Story>
  <Country>
<xsl:for-each select="Company_ID">
   <Company_ID>
      <xsl:value-of select="Company_Name"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="Address"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="Telephone_text"/>
      <xsl:values-of select="Fax_tex"/>
      <xsl:value-of select=Email_text"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="Website_text"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="Personel_text"/>
      <xsl:value-of select="Pesronelmail_text"/>
   </Company_ID>
  </xsl:for-each>
</Story>
</Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
but it doesn't work. could someone tell me what's wrong with the xslt file? or what would the correct xslt file look like?
Thanks everyone!

Answer 1

Here's the sort of thing I mean in more detail.
First, the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="transform2.xsl"?>
<Root>
<Country>
<Country_name>Afganistan</Country_name>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Kam Air </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code> 1 </Company_Code>
   <Address_text> 1205 Qalla Fatuha </Address_text>
   <Address_text> P.O.Box 456 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Kabul </Address_text>
   <Address_text> 22004 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Afganistan </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: [phone] </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: [phone] </Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.flykamair.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text> Abdul Raquib, chief Executive </Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text> ([email protected]) </Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A1 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Another Company </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code> 2 </Company_Code>
   <Address_text> Elswhere</Address_text>
   <Address_text> P.O.Box 123</Address_text>
   <Address_text>Another City</Address_text>
   <Address_text> 22005 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Afganistan </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: [phone] </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: [phone] </Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.dfhdfh.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text> dfhdfhdfhdfhdfh</Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text>dfhdfhdfhdfh</Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A2 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
</Country>
     <Country>
<Country_name>Albania</Country_name>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Number 3 </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code>3</Company_Code>
   <Address_text>Somewhere in Albania</Address_text>
   <Address_text>Freedonia Avenue</Address_text>
   <Address_text>Whatever the captial of Albania is called</Address_text>
   <Address_text> 88888</Address_text>
   <Address_text> Albania </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: + 666 666 666 666 </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: + 777 777 777 777</Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.albaniar.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text>Ludwig Wittgenstein, chief Executive </Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text> ([email protected]) </Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A1 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
</Country>
</Root>
Note that I have renamed the XSL file "transform2.xsl". I have got rid of the "Story" tag, and I have nested the tags more appropriately, with a new tag "Country_name". Here's the XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<Root>
<xsl:for-each select="/Root/Country">
<Country>
<Country_name><xsl:value-of select="Country_name"/></Country_name>
<xsl:for-each select="Company_ID">
<Company_Name><xsl:value-of select="Company_Name"/></Company_Name>
<Address_text><xsl:value-of select="Address_text"/></Address_text>
<Telephone_text><xsl:value-of select="Telephone_text"/></Telephone_text>
<Fax_text><xsl:value-of select="Fax_text"/></Fax_text>
<Email_text><xsl:value-of select="Email_text"/></Email_text>
<Website_text><xsl:value-of select="Website_text"/></Website_text>
<Personel_text><xsl:value-of select="Personel_text"/></Personel_text>
<Personelmail_text><xsl:value-of select="Personelmail_text"/></Personelmail_text>
</xsl:for-each>
</Country>
</xsl:for-each>
</Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
(That file should be saved as "transform2.xsl" to match the link on line 2 of the XML.)
Hope that works -- Jeremy