Re: [xsl] Is there a way to relate source tree nodes to result tree nodes?

["Robert Koberg" <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

are you possibly looking to re-style the xml with the only change being
wrapping the offending chunk with something like:

<error>
a problem
</error>

Then you could do a search for all errors. Then remove (re-style) the error
tags as they fix the errors.


----- Original Message -----
From: <dpenton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 11:12 AM
Subject: [xsl] Is there a way to relate source tree nodes to result tree
nodes?


> I am using xslt to generate reports on problems within an xml document.
(The reported problems are
> application-specific, and would not be noticed by a validating parser.)  I
would like to be able to
> navigate from a node in the result tree back to a related node in the
source tree, so the user can
> locate and fix the reported error.
>
> More specifically, I receive the source tree as a DOM 2 document from the
xml authoring tool
> application (Epic) that calls my java code.  At the moment I generate a
paper report using xslt.
> The problem is that the reader of the report has no easy way of
identifying the exact spots in the
> original xml instance that caused my xslt transform to report errors.  The
source document content
> itself does not have "landmarks" in it that could be used to identify the
problem elements.  What I
> would like to do is display the report so that clicking on a "hyperlink"
in my output report (using
> some java widget or other on screen) would allow me to navigate back to
the element that generated
> that particular reported error.
>
> If I understand xslt correctly (which I would certainly not bet the ranch
on), the identity of the
> nodes in the source DOM are lost to the xslt transform, and are available
only as xslt tree objects.
> I would guess that this is so even if I get the result tree as a DOM 2
document, in that the xslt
> transformer cooks up its own result DOM with no navigable relationship
with the source DOM.
>
> I guess I might be able to figure out some way to use the position of
elements in document order, or
> change the dtd so that elements have id attributes that I could navigate
back to, or something.  But
> it would sure be nice to to have a simpler way to identify the node in the
source DOM per se that I
> have at a given spot in the stylesheet.
>
> This post looks as clear as mud to me at the moment.  I hope that y'all
catch the gist of it and can
> help me out.
>
> TIA.
>
> David Penton
> Arrowsash Inc.
>
>
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