I have an XSL file that keeps coming up with the above error. Here is my code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="faculty">
<xsl:element name='{fname}'>
<xsl:for-each select="students/name">
<name>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</name>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
And here is part of my source XML file:
<faculties xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation='257lab2a.xsd'>
<faculty>
<fname>literal arts</fname>
<students>
<name>ron dell</name>
<mark>52</mark>
<phone number='349-095-9867'></phone>
<courseCategory category='full time'></courseCategory>
<courseNo courseNumber='LART433'></courseNo>
</students>
</faculty>
</faculties>
It appears to be because fname contains text which is not a valid element name (can't contain a space). Try the following, but keep in mind there could other cases you need to address, depending on your data.
<xsl:template match="faculty">
<xsl:element name="{translate(fname, ' ', '_')}">
<xsl:for-each select="students/name">
<name>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</name>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>