Subject: RE: [xsl] Random indexing into a comma seperated list From: Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 16:36:30 -0700 (PDT) |
Thanks. I will take a look at the solution. >Doesn't embedding comma-separated lists into your elements defeat the >purpose of ML? I don't control the format of the incoming XML. BTW, this problem occurs in abundance with SVG. >If I had to do it, I would define a template that could "return" a specified >element in the list and call that template each time I needed to "randomly" >access an element. This is hardly efficient. It is the inefficiency and verbosity I was hoping to avoid while staying portable. I was hoping someone might have a breakthrough thought like the Muenchian technique for grouping. But you nailed the problem on its head - I have islands of non-XML data I need to address/index into and I may be forced to recurse for each item. If anyone else has a thought, I would appreciate it because my application has a fair amount of these comma separated lists. Before closing out this inquiry I would like to get a few opinions. One thought I am considering is doing the tranformation in two steps. First step would be to roll all of the csv items into <i> tags and in the second pass perform my custom processing on purified XML: <tag>1,2,$19.95,4,five</tag> <tag><i>1</i><i>2</i><i>$19.95</i><i>4</i><i>five</i></tag> The only hitch here is that there is no DTD or schema and I don't know all of the tag names a priori without a pretty substantial analysis of the instance documents. What do the experts say? Regards, Dan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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