Re: simplifying transform

[David Schwartz]

Thanks for your help Martin. I'd like to explore this in steps if
possible. So when I execute the following transform, I don't get any
attributes. Any ideas as to why? Shouldn't I get all the nodes in
their original state?

<xsl:styleshe et
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"
xmlns:redirect= "org.apache.xal an.xslt.extensi ons.Redirect"
extension-element-prefixes="redir ect">

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<redirect:wri te file="transform ed.xml">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</redirect:write>
</xsl:template>

TIA!
David

[David Carlisle]

Re: simplifying transform

David Schwartz wrote:

Thanks for your help Martin. I'd like to explore this in steps if
possible. So when I execute the following transform, I don't get any
attributes. Any ideas as to why? Shouldn't I get all the nodes in
their original state?
>
<xsl:styleshe et
xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"
xmlns:redirect= "org.apache.xal an.xslt.extensi ons.Redirect"
extension-element-prefixes="redir ect">
>
<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
<redirect:wri te file="transform ed.xml">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</redirect:write>
</xsl:template>
>
TIA!
David

That template is generating a file (with the same noame over and over
again) for every element, in the case of attributes it tries to copy the
attribute on its own to a new file but without an element to hold it,
that can't work.

If you just want to redirect the result of an identity transform then
you don't want a new file on every element, just the root:

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">

<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">
<redirect:wri te file="transform ed.xml">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</redirect:write>
</xsl:template>

David

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http://dpcarlisle.blogspot.com

[David Schwartz]

Re: simplifying transform

Actually, both stylesheets produce a file with the same number of
elements. The stylesheet you provided David does include the
attributes though so thanks!

So, now that I'm successfully creating all the tags, how do I change
the values of the ref attribute in just the tagC elements?

Thanks again!

David

[Martin Honnen]

Re: simplifying transform

David Schwartz wrote:

Actually, both stylesheets produce a file with the same number of
elements. The stylesheet you provided David does include the
attributes though so thanks!
>
So, now that I'm successfully creating all the tags, how do I change
the values of the ref attribute in just the tagC elements?

As suggested earlier:

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">

<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/">
<redirect:wri te file="transform ed.xml">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</redirect:write>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@id2"/>

<xsl:template match="tagC">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribut e name="ref">
<xsl:value-of select="../*[@id2 = current()/@ref]/@id1"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>



--

Martin Honnen

http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[David Schwartz]

Re: simplifying transform

Thanks for everyone's help! While I wish I understood the stylesheet
better but it's getting the job done.

Thanks again,
David