XML help needed

Silver Owl · 10-11-2011, 06:37 PM

I've been playing around with the yahoo fantasy sports API but can't get past this problem. I am just trying to pull data from an XML file but can't pull anything from this line

the XML code is :
>?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?<
>query xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng"
yahoo:count="1" yahoo:created="2011-10-11T22:16:44Z" yahoo:lang="en-US"<
>results<
>league xmlns="http://fantasysports.yahooapis.com/fantasy/v2/base.rng"<
>league_key<242.l.9137>/league_key<
>league_id<9137>/league_id<
>/league<
>/results<
>/query<

and the XSLT code is :

>?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?<
>!-- Edited by XMLSpy® --<
>xsl:stylesheet version="1.0
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"<
>xsl:template match="/"<
>html<
>body<
>h2/h2<
>table border="1"<
>tr bgcolor="#9acd32"<
>th/th<
>th/th<
>/tr<
>tr<
>td<>xsl:value-of select="query/results/league/league_key"/<>/td<
>td<>xsl:value-of select="query/results/league/league_id"/<>/td<
>/tr<
>/table<
>/body<
>/html<
>/xsl:template<
>/xsl:stylesheet<

I can't pull anything past the bolded line.
I am very inexperienced with this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

edit - I reversed all of the > < to get the code to show up.

gstelmack · 10-11-2011, 06:40 PM

You need to code-bracket that or something, the XML is not coming through.

Silver Owl · 10-12-2011, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gstelmack

You need to code-bracket that or something, the XML is not coming through.

Thanks, I think its showing up now.

Silver Owl · 10-14-2011, 03:39 PM

anyone?

Matthean · 10-14-2011, 04:25 PM

I don't know enough to answer your question, but I was looking around on Yahoo's site and the "xmlns='http://fantasysports.yahooapis.com/fantasy/v2/base.rng'" part was in the same tag as xmlns:yahoo. If Yahoo's site has a forum for this kind of stuff, I would look there. webdeveloper and sitepoint fourms would be a couple web dev. forums worth looking at for places to get feedback as well.

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 10-14-2011, 04:41 PM

Not experienced with XSLT.

Is it a permissions thing? Opening http://fantasysports.yahooapis.com/fantasy/v2/base.rng yields an OAuth credentialing problem.

Radii · 10-14-2011, 05:13 PM

yeah i've never done enough with xslt to get any sort of nuances with it, but I know the namespace elements (xmlns) add a level of complication to it and that is likely what's screwing you up, I just don't know how to deal with it.

Silver Owl · 10-15-2011, 08:02 AM

Thanks guys, Radii is correct that the namespace element is the problem. I just can't figure out how to get around it. It doesn't help that I also don't know what I am doing.

Ronnie Dobbs2
You are right about the permissions. Yahoo has a console where you can get XML data without the permissions. In order to use the data on a website you have to go through the OAuth process.

Matthean
I will search some webdeveloper and sitepoint fourms.

thanks guys

Ronnie Dobbs2 · 10-15-2011, 11:18 AM

One thing you might want to try is avoiding the XML altogether and using the Yahoo! Query Language. Works seemlessly with AJAX calls and can return JSON which is a breeze to work with. I believe support for Yahoo! Fantasy is provided.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

Silver Owl · 10-15-2011, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronnie Dobbs2

One thing you might want to try is avoiding the XML altogether and using the Yahoo! Query Language. Works seemlessly with AJAX calls and can return JSON which is a breeze to work with. I believe support for Yahoo! Fantasy is provided.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

I will look into that. Thanks

10-11-2011, 06:40 PM	#2
gstelmack Pro Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Cary, NC	You need to code-bracket that or something, the XML is not coming through. __________________ -- Greg -- Author of various FOF utilities

10-14-2011, 04:25 PM	#5
Matthean Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Aug 2008	I don't know enough to answer your question, but I was looking around on Yahoo's site and the "xmlns='http://fantasysports.yahooapis.com/fantasy/v2/base.rng'" part was in the same tag as xmlns:yahoo. If Yahoo's site has a forum for this kind of stuff, I would look there. webdeveloper and sitepoint fourms would be a couple web dev. forums worth looking at for places to get feedback as well. __________________ Board games: Bringing people back to the original social network, the table.

10-14-2011, 04:41 PM	#6
Ronnie Dobbs2 Pro Rookie Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Bahston Mass	Not experienced with XSLT. Is it a permissions thing? Opening http://fantasysports.yahooapis.com/fantasy/v2/base.rng yields an OAuth credentialing problem. __________________ There's no I in Teamocil, at least not where you'd think

10-14-2011, 03:39 PM	#4
Silver Owl High School JV Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Akron, OH	anyone?

10-14-2011, 05:13 PM	#7
Radii Head Coach Join Date: Jul 2001	yeah i've never done enough with xslt to get any sort of nuances with it, but I know the namespace elements (xmlns) add a level of complication to it and that is likely what's screwing you up, I just don't know how to deal with it.

10-15-2011, 08:02 AM	#8
Silver Owl High School JV Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Akron, OH	Thanks guys, Radii is correct that the namespace element is the problem. I just can't figure out how to get around it. It doesn't help that I also don't know what I am doing. Ronnie Dobbs2 You are right about the permissions. Yahoo has a console where you can get XML data without the permissions. In order to use the data on a website you have to go through the OAuth process. Matthean I will search some webdeveloper and sitepoint fourms. thanks guys

10-15-2011, 11:18 AM	#9
Ronnie Dobbs2 Pro Rookie Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Bahston Mass	One thing you might want to try is avoiding the XML altogether and using the Yahoo! Query Language. Works seemlessly with AJAX calls and can return JSON which is a breeze to work with. I believe support for Yahoo! Fantasy is provided. http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/ __________________ There's no I in Teamocil, at least not where you'd think

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