XSLT help. This hurts.

**Kimanzi Mati** · Jul 20 '05, 06:15 AM

Re: XSLT help. This hurts.

RESULTSET/HIT/FIELD/[@NAME='urls'] will get you the FIELD element you are
looking for. To get the text contained in it you can use the text()
function.

"Brett conklin" <bconklin@senti us.com> wrote in message
news:e1f2f028.0 310011620.42ca9 7f5@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I have an xml document that I am trying to transform into HTML. This
> sounds straigt forward but the xml uses an format that I don't know
> how to xslt. Here is the format.
>
> <RESULTSET>
> <HIT>
> <FIELD NAME="contentty pe">text/html</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="language" >en</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="charset"> iso-8859-1</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="urls">/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml</FIELD>
> </HIT>
> <HIT>
> </HIT>
> </RESULTSET>
>
> I think this is poorly written XML but I have no choice. I need to
> get the data from the entity <FIELD> but I only need specific ones.
> For example I need to grab the data from <FIELD NAME="urls"> but I
> don't know how to address it specifically. Now you ask why did this
> application decide that using the same xml entity over and over again,
> I could not tell you. A <URL> entity would have worked just fine.
> Thanks ahead of time for your help.
>
> So how do I grab "/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml" from <FIELD
> NAME="urls"> I have already tried <xsl:value-of select="@headin gs"/>.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brett[/color]

**Dimitre Novatchev** · Jul 20 '05, 06:15 AM

Re: XSLT help. This hurts.

> So how do I grab "/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml" from <FIELD[color=blue]
> NAME="urls">[/color]

string(/*/*/FIELD[@NAME='urls'])

=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

"Brett conklin" <bconklin@senti us.com> wrote in message
news:e1f2f028.0 310011620.42ca9 7f5@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I have an xml document that I am trying to transform into HTML. This
> sounds straigt forward but the xml uses an format that I don't know
> how to xslt. Here is the format.
>
> <RESULTSET>
> <HIT>
> <FIELD NAME="contentty pe">text/html</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="language" >en</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="charset"> iso-8859-1</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="urls">/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml</FIELD>
> </HIT>
> <HIT>
> </HIT>
> </RESULTSET>
>
> I think this is poorly written XML but I have no choice. I need to
> get the data from the entity <FIELD> but I only need specific ones.
> For example I need to grab the data from <FIELD NAME="urls"> but I
> don't know how to address it specifically. Now you ask why did this
> application decide that using the same xml entity over and over again,
> I could not tell you. A <URL> entity would have worked just fine.
> Thanks ahead of time for your help.
>
> So how do I grab "/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml" from <FIELD
> NAME="urls"> I have already tried <xsl:value-of select="@headin gs"/>.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brett[/color]

**Andy Fish** · Jul 20 '05, 06:15 AM

Re: XSLT help. This hurts.

it's _supposed_ to hurt - Welcome to XSLT ;-))

"Brett conklin" <bconklin@senti us.com> wrote in message
news:e1f2f028.0 310011620.42ca9 7f5@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I have an xml document that I am trying to transform into HTML. This
> sounds straigt forward but the xml uses an format that I don't know
> how to xslt. Here is the format.
>
> <RESULTSET>
> <HIT>
> <FIELD NAME="contentty pe">text/html</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="language" >en</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="charset"> iso-8859-1</FIELD>
> <FIELD NAME="urls">/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml</FIELD>
> </HIT>
> <HIT>
> </HIT>
> </RESULTSET>
>
> I think this is poorly written XML but I have no choice. I need to
> get the data from the entity <FIELD> but I only need specific ones.
> For example I need to grab the data from <FIELD NAME="urls"> but I
> don't know how to address it specifically. Now you ask why did this
> application decide that using the same xml entity over and over again,
> I could not tell you. A <URL> entity would have worked just fine.
> Thanks ahead of time for your help.
>
> So how do I grab "/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml" from <FIELD
> NAME="urls"> I have already tried <xsl:value-of select="@headin gs"/>.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brett[/color]

**Brett conklin** · Jul 20 '05, 06:15 AM

Re: XSLT help. This hurts.

I have noticed. Man this was much easier in Perl. But I will prevail.

"Andy Fish" <ajfish@blueyon der.co.uk> wrote in message news:<yXYeb.695 4$ii2.57427122@ news-text.cableinet. net>...[color=blue]
> it's _supposed_ to hurt - Welcome to XSLT ;-))
>
> "Brett conklin" <bconklin@senti us.com> wrote in message
> news:e1f2f028.0 310011620.42ca9 7f5@posting.goo gle.com...[color=green]
> > I have an xml document that I am trying to transform into HTML. This
> > sounds straigt forward but the xml uses an format that I don't know
> > how to xslt. Here is the format.
> >
> > <RESULTSET>
> > <HIT>
> > <FIELD NAME="contentty pe">text/html</FIELD>
> > <FIELD NAME="language" >en</FIELD>
> > <FIELD NAME="charset"> iso-8859-1</FIELD>
> > <FIELD NAME="urls">/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml</FIELD>
> > </HIT>
> > <HIT>
> > </HIT>
> > </RESULTSET>
> >
> > I think this is poorly written XML but I have no choice. I need to
> > get the data from the entity <FIELD> but I only need specific ones.
> > For example I need to grab the data from <FIELD NAME="urls"> but I
> > don't know how to address it specifically. Now you ask why did this
> > application decide that using the same xml entity over and over again,
> > I could not tell you. A <URL> entity would have worked just fine.
> > Thanks ahead of time for your help.
> >
> > So how do I grab "/wed/dd/Cwebwire-bac_gen.6898.ht ml" from <FIELD
> > NAME="urls"> I have already tried <xsl:value-of select="@headin gs"/>.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Brett[/color][/color]

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