Re: What stylesheet might I use to parse the xml..

Subject: Re: What stylesheet might I use to parse the xml..
From: Matthew Cordes <mcorde61@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 00:03:43 -0400
Please ignore this message.  Steve Muench <smuench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
provided a suitable explaination to my previous post.  Sorry for wasting
your time.

-matt


On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 10:40:14PM -0400, Matthew Cordes wrote:
> Hello, I have some xml that I want to reorder, but leave in xml format 
> via an xsl.  What I have right now isn't working, please help.
> 
> 
> Starting xml:
> 
> <resultset>
>     <result>
>         <name>  Art </name>
>         <age>   22  </age>
>         <course>    mes-399 </course>
>     </result>
>     <result>
>         <name>  Pat </name>
>         <age>   22  </age>
>         <course>    cos-399 </course>
>     </result>
>     <result>
>         <name>  Stan </name>
>         <age>   45  </age>
>         <course>    mes-399 </course>
>     </result>
>     <result>
>         <name>  Jimmy </name>
>         <age>   23  </age>
>         <course>    cos-399 </course>
>     </result>
> </resultset>
> 
> 
> Here is the stylesheet I used,
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <courses>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="/resultset/result"/>
>     </courses>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="result">
>     <course>
>         <xsl:attribute name="title">
>             <xsl:value-of select="course"/>
>         </xsl:attribute>
> 		<student>
> 	        <name> <xsl:value-of select="name"/> </name>
> 	        <age> <xsl:value-of select="age"/> </age>
> 		</student>
>     </course>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> together these output: 
> 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <courses>
> 	<course title="mes-399">
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Art </name>
> 			<age>22</age>
> 		</student>	
> 	</course>
> 	<course title="cos-399">
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Pat </name>
> 			<age>22</age>
> 		</student>
> 	</course>
> 	<course title="mes-399">
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Stan </name>
> 			<age>45</age>
> 		</student>
> 	</course>
> 	<course title="cos-399">
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Jimmy </name>
> 			<age>23</age>
> 		</student>
> 	</course>
> </courses>
> 
> 
> when I really wanted this output:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> <courses>
> 	<course title="mes-399">
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Art </name>
> 			<age>22</age>
> 		</student>
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Stan </name>
> 			<age>45</age>
> 		</student>
> 	</course>
> 	<course title="cos-399">
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Pat </name>
> 			<age>22</age>
> 		</student>	
> 		<student>
> 			<name> Jimmy </name>
> 			<age>23</age>
> 		</student>	
> 	</course>
> </courses>
> 
> Notice how the desired xml above is grouped by course, while the real
> output is not.  Can anyone help me do it this way?
> 
> Perhaps also, some kind of xsl that would allow me to compress nodes with
> the same name would also work (e.g., above, <course title="cos-399">
> appears twice, but I really only want it once ).
> 
> Thanks for reading this,
> 
> -matt


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