Subject: RE: [xsl] Transforming a node in XSL multiple times From: "Passin, Tom" <tpassin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:40:16 -0500 |
[ Spencer] > We have a tag like this <img src="hello.bmp"/> and we want > to perform multiple transformations on it such as adding alt > and width attributes. This can be done in one template quite easily. > > However, the problem arises if we need to change this tag > again but through a different Xpath. For example, we do a > template match on img and add alt and width attributes. > Then we do a template match on the div and because it has a > center alignment, we now want to add the height attribute to > the preceeding image using the xpath preceding::img > > <img src="hello.bmp"/> > <div align="center"/> > Usually, there is another way to handle these tasks. You just have to approach it differently. Instead of multiple passes, it is ususally better to think in terms of conditions - conditions for selecting sets of nodes, and conditions for handling them. And remember that any node is accessible from any context, as long as you can think of the right condition to express its location (relative or absolute). Mike Kay said "Or you can do it in a single pass, in which case each node in the result tree must be computed as a function of the things in the source tree that it depends on. You can visit a source node as often as you like, but you can only visit a result node once." Applying this notion to your particular example, you want to change the attributes depending on the next following "div" element. You can actually say that fairly directly: <!-- This assumes that the "div" in question is supposed to be the very next sibling element of the context node. It also assumes that the source element for the image has an attribute names "height". If not, just substitute the right expression for the height. --> <img src='hello.bmp'> <xsl:if test='following-sibling::*[1][name()="div" and @align="center"]'> <xsl:attribute name='height'><xsl:value-of select='@height'/></xsl:attribute> </xsl:if> </img> The key is to figure out what condition will select or specify the right nodes, then you can do almost anything in xslt. Cheers, Tom P XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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