Re: [xsl] Interesting issue

Subject: Re: [xsl] Interesting issue
From: Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 14:16:17 +0100
Hello Nischal,

this is really an extreme demand. I see only this string:

<data>SudhakarJalli030719751809Bigbenddrmilpitasca95035Rajeevkasarabada032719751788lowerbenddrivesanjoseca94523</data>

Where do you know from (or where should the XSLT processor or JavaScript know from), where to divide the strings in substrings? There seems to be no delimiter and no fixed number of characters.

In every case the logic you implemented in JS can be implemented in XSLT with a recursive template:

<xsl:template match="/Customers">
  <Customers>
    <xsl:call-template name="customer">
      <xsl:with-param name="data" select="data"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </Customers>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="customer">
  <xsl:param name="data" select="''"/>
  <xsl:if test="string(data)">
    <Customer>
      <FirstName>
        <xsl:value-of select="substring($data, 1, 15)"/>
      </FirstName>
      <LastName>
        <xsl:value-of select="substring($data, 16, 1)"/>
      </LastName>
      <Street>
        <xsl:value-of select="substring($data, 17, 1)"/>
      </Street>
      <City>
        <xsl:value-of select="substring($data, 18, 1)"/>
      </City>
      ...
      and so on
      ...
    </Customer>
    <xsl:call-template name="customer">
      <xsl:with-param name="data" select="substring($data, 20)"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

But as I said there is no logic for the string length. Where do you want to get it from?

Regards,

Joerg

Nischal Muthana wrote:
Hi All

I am transforming xml to xml using an xsl with Xalan
XSLT processor. But I am getting the resulting xml as
string instead of


nodelist.

test.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt";


xmlns:result="http://www.example.com/results";
extension-element-prefixes="result" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
	<lxslt:component prefix="result"
functions="GetCopyBookData">
	<lxslt:script lang="javascript">
	function GetData(Data)
	{
		var x1 = 0;
		var x2 = 0;
		var result;
		for(var i = 1;i < 3; i++)
		{
			var s = "<Customers><FirstName>";
			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 15;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</FirstName>";
			s = s + "<LastName>";
			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 1;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</LastName>";
			s = s + "<StreetNum>";
			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 1;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</StreetNum>";
			s = s + "<Street>";
 			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 1;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</Street>";
			s = s + "<City>";
			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 1;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</City>";
			s = s + "<State>";
			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 1;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</State>";
			s = s + "<Zip>";
			x1 = x2;
			x2 = x1 + 1;
			s = s + Data.substring(x1,x2) + "</Zip>";
			result = result + s;
		}
		return result;
	}
	</lxslt:script>
	</lxslt:component>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:variable name="Data" select="data"/>
		<xsl:value-of select="result:GetData($Data)"/>
	</xsl:template>
		
test.xml
<Customers>
<data>SudhakarJalli030719751809Bigbenddrmilpitasca95035Rajeevkasarabada032719751788lowerbenddrivesanjoseca94523</data>
</Customers>


Result.xml


<Customers>
	<FirstName>Sudhakar</FirstName>
	<LastName>Jalli</LastName>
	<DOB>03071975</DOB>
	<StreetNum>1809</StreetNum>
	<Street>BigBendDr</Street>
	<City>Milpitas</City>
	<State>CA</State>
	<Zip>95035</Zip>
</Customers>
	<FirstName>Rajeev</FirstName>
	<LastName>Kasarabada</LastName>
	<DOB>03271975</DOB>
	<StreetNum>1788</StreetNum>
	<Street>lowerbenddrive</Street>
	<City>sanjose</City>
	<State>CA</State>
	<Zip>94523</Zip>
</Customers>		

Thanks for your time
Nischal



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