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I extract metadata from the GDB_UserMetadata SDE table. Now I want to transform that xml to html so that I can view it from my browser. To do that I use the ISO.xsl stylesheet found in C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Metadata\Stylesheets. I add to the beginning of the file:

<?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='ISO.xsl'?>

It works fine in IE9 but Firefox says:

Error loading stylesheet: Parsing an XSLT stylesheet failed.

Does anyone know WHY?

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  • Use <xsl:stylesheet ...> instead of <xsl-stylesheet....> – Mapperz♦ Mar 30 '11 at 14:27
  • haven't had this problem. But my first steps would be to clear data in Firefox and specify an absolute path for the stylesheet. What version of firefox are you using? – badkins Mar 30 '11 at 14:29
  • Thanks for your answers, if I use "xsl:stylesheet" Firefox complains about a not well-formed issue. If I write the absolute path for the .xsl I get a plain text file. IE9 seems to work with anything though. I am using the FF4 but it I had the same problem with the previous version. – Manolo Frias Mar 31 '11 at 12:16
  • Are both your XML and XSLT valid? Try running through w3.org/2005/08/online_xslt – Sean Mar 31 '11 at 13:13
  • That validator didn't work for my files but it doesn't seem to work with small xml/xsl files I know are valid. I assumed that ISO.xsl is valid since I took it from the ArcGIS folder in drive C:. If ArcCatalog can transform a xml file I supposed I could do the same from a browser. – Manolo Frias Apr 1 '11 at 6:56
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I believe the tool you want is the XSLTransform_conversion tool. This tool is found in ArcToolbox's Coversion tools. Look in Conversion Tools, then open the Metadata toolset. It's called XSLT Transformation. If you execute it in python, it's the arcpy.XSLTransform_conversion() method. You can look it up in ArcGIS Desktop help for a full description. Here's the link to the online help:

http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001200000017000000

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