XSLT match text then following sibling

[tgow]

Hi Everyone,

I have the following XML:

<input type ="Data">
      <parameter name ="Name">
             <variable type="Static">
                    <![CDATA[site]]>
             </variable>
      </parameter>
      <parameter name="Value">
             <variable type="Static">
                    <![CDATA[joe]]>
             </variable>
      </parameter>
</input>

I need to match the variable text(site) and grab the variable text(joe). I am not sure how to use the "following-sibling" syntax in this example.

Thanks in advance,

Todd

[Dormilich]

I need to match the variable text(site) and grab the variable text(joe).

could you elaborate? I do not understand the requirement.

if you want to match text(joe) from text(site) it would be

ancestor::parameter/following-sibling::parameter/variable

[jkmyoung]

??

<xsl:variable name="name" select="'site'"/>
<xsl:value-of select="//input[parameter[@name = 'Name'] = $name]/parameter[@name='Value']"/>

[tgow]

I have a large XML files that repeats the following XML:

 
<script>
  <action>
    <actions>
     <postdata>
        <input type="Data">
            <parameter name="Name">
               <variable type="Static">
                  <![CDATA[trans]]>
               </variable>
            <parameter name="Value">
                <variable type="Static">
                  <![CDATA[hello]]>
            </variable>
        </input>
        <input type="Data">
            <parameter name="Name">
               <variable type="Static">
                  <![CDATA[site]]>
               </variable>
            <parameter name="Value">
                <variable type="Static">
                  <![CDATA[joe]]>
            </variable>
        </input>

......

I have written the following xsl which pulls it but the XPATH is hardcoded:

<xsl:value-of select="//script/actions/action/postdata/input[@type = 'Data'][2]/parameter[@name = 'Value']"</xsl:value-of>

Each XML file is the same but the "<input></input>" order could be different so I really need the "<parameter name="Value"> CDATA value which is "joe" but this will be different every time. I was trying to look for the "<parameter name="Name">" CDATA value which is "site" because this is consistent and grab the "following::sib ling" possibly.

I hope this makes more sense.

Thanks again,

Todd

[jkmyoung]

replace the [2] with
[parameter[@name = 'Name'] = 'site']

[tgow]

Thanks for the reply. This gets me closer but it is just a Boolean true/false. What I would like to do in pseudo-code is if the following:

if (site = true) exists
then
grab the following-sibling value (joe)

Do I need to use a variable for this or the choose logic?

Thanks in advance,

Todd

[jkmyoung]

? If you already know the value is joe, why bother grabbing it?

[tgow]

The value of "joe" is dynamic. The value of "site" is static. If I find "site" the I need the following sibling which is the value of "joe" in my example but it could be anything.

Thanks again,

Todd

[jkmyoung]

I don't understand what was wrong with the solution:

<xsl:value-of select="//script/actions/action/postdata/input[@type = 'Data'][parameter[@name = 'Name'] = 'site']/parameter[@name = 'Value']"/>

[tgow]

It works..thanks for you help.

Just an issue between the chair and the keyboard. ;^)

Thanks again,

Todd