Subject: Re: Complex expression problem... From: "Steve Muench" <smuench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 16:02:57 -0800 |
and cannot connect nodesets are you're trying to do here. You likely intend something like this: <out xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xsl:version="1.0"> <xsl:variable name="_id">AROUT</xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="_company">Horn</xsl:variable> <xsl:for-each select="/customers/customer[ contains(customer_id ,$_id ) and contains(company_name,$_company) ]"> <contact><xsl:value-of select="contact_name"/></contact> </xsl:for-each> </out> Where the "and" is connecting boolean contains() expressions. ______________________________________________________________ Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager Business Components for Java Dev't Team, Oracle Corporation ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Asbell" <jonathana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: RE: Complex expression problem... | My code is below and the parser says the result can not be converted to a | node set | | <xsl:variable name="path" select="/customers/customer"/> | <xsl:for-each select=" | $path/customer_id[contains(.,$_id)] | and | $path/company_name[contains(.,$_company)] | and | $path/contact_name[contains(.,$_contact)] | and | $path/contact_title[contains(.,$_title)] | and | $path/address[contains(.,$_address)] | and | $path/city[contains(.,$_city)] | and | $path/region[contains(.,$_region)] | and | $path/postal_code[contains(.,$_postal)] | and | $path/country[contains(.,$_country)] | and | $path/phone[contains(.,$_phone)] | and | $path/fax[contains(.,$_fax)] | "> | | -----Original Message----- | From: Steve Muench [mailto:smuench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] | Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 5:27 PM | To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Subject: Re: Complex expression problem... | | | <xsl:for-each | select="/customers/customer[starts-with(name,'a') | and | starts-with(city,'b') | and | starts-with(zip,'9')]"> | : | : | </xsl:for-each> | | Although, if you'll be doing this over thousands of | customers *AND* you are already pulling the customer | information from a database, you might want to | push this query through and let your database filter | the rows *before* rendering the resulting matches | as XML to make things go a lot faster...Just a thought, | and might not apply to your situation, but seemed | like it was worth suggesting... | | ______________________________________________________________ | Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager | Business Components for Java Dev't Team, Oracle Corporation | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Jonathan Asbell" <jonathana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> | Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:12 PM | Subject: Complex expression problem... | | | | How do I say | | | | __________________________________ | | for each customer where.... | | the value of "name" begins with "a" | | and | | the value of "city" begins with "p" | | and | | the value of "zip" begins with "9" | | output their field values | | (that is for each one that matches the criteria, give me their records) | | __________________________________ | | | | | | the xml is below..... | | | | | | <customers> | | <customer> | | <customer_id>ALFKI</customer_id> | | <company_name>Alfreds Futterkiste</company_name> | | <contact_name>Maria Anders</contact_name> | | <contact_title>Sales Representative</contact_title> | | <address>Obere Str. 57</address> | | <city>Berlin</city> | | <region></region> | | <postal_code>12209</postal_code> | | <country>Germany</country> | | <phone>030-0074321</phone> | | <fax>030-0076545</fax> | | </customer> | | <customer> | | <customer_id>AROUT</customer_id> | | <company_name>Around the Horn</company_name> | | <contact_name>Thomas Hardy</contact_name> | | <contact_title>Sales Representative</contact_title> | | <address>120 Hanover Sq.</address> | | <city>London</city> | | <region></region> | | <postal_code>WA1 1DP</postal_code> | | <country>UK</country> | | <phone>(171) 555-7788</phone> | | <fax>(171) 555-6750</fax> | | </customer> | | | | etc....... | | | | </customers> | | | | | | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list | | | | | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list | | | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list | XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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