Re: [xsl] newbie - comparing attributes in nodes

Subject: Re: [xsl] newbie - comparing attributes in nodes
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 13:44:49 -0500
At 2002-01-16 16:50 +0000, Hesselberth, Jan wrote:
I tried to follow the examples in the book and came up with variants as
below but none work. Can someone please help?

<xsl:for-each select="/Report/printCategory">
                        <xsl:if
test="not(@ID=preceding::printCategory/@ID)">
                        <fo:table-row>
                                <fo:table-cell>
                                        <fo:block>Print Category
<xsl:value-of select="@ID"/></fo:block>
                                </fo:table-cell>
                        </fo:table-row>
                        </xsl:if>

That code works for me using XT (see below) ... what are your results?


(note that since you are looking at siblings, using preceding-sibling:: will check for fewer nodes than using preceding::).

............... Ken


T:\ftemp>type jan.xml <Report> <printCategory ID="20"><TranName>FURTHER ADVANCE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="20"><TranName>INITIAL DRAWDOWN</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="20"><TranName>RETENTION RELEASE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="21"><TranName>INTEREST ADJUSTMENT</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="21"><TranName>INTEREST ADJUSTMENT (CREDIT)</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="21"><TranName>INTEREST CHARGED</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="21"><TranName>REDEMPTION INTEREST CHARGED</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="22"><TranName>ARRANGEMENT FEE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> <printCategory ID="22"><TranName>FIXED RATE BOOKING FEE</TranName><CRAmount>0</CRAmount><DRAmount>0</DRAmount></printCategory> </Report>

T:\ftemp>type jan.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <fotable>
    <xsl:for-each select="/Report/printCategory">
      <xsl:if test="not(@ID=preceding::printCategory/@ID)">
        <fo:table-row>
          <fo:table-cell>
            <fo:block>Print Category
            <xsl:value-of select="@ID"/></fo:block>
          </fo:table-cell>
        </fo:table-row>
      </xsl:if>
      <fo:table-row>
        <fo:table-cell>
          <fo:block>
            <xsl:value-of select="TranName"/>
          </fo:block>
        </fo:table-cell>
      </fo:table-row>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </fotable>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt jan.xml jan.xsl jan.fo

T:\ftemp>type jan.fo
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fotable xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>Print Category
            20</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>FURTHER
ADVANCE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INITIAL
DRAWDOWN</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>RETENTION
RELEASE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>Print Category
            21</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INTEREST
ADJUSTMENT</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INTEREST ADJUSTMENT
(CREDIT)</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>INTEREST
CHARGED</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>REDEMPTION INTEREST
CHARGED</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>Print Category
            22</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>ARRANGEMENT
FEE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block>FIXED RATE BOOKING
FEE</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fotable>


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