Subject: Re: [xsl] use of xsl:key in cross-referencing From: Xiaocun Xu <xiaocunxu@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:45:34 -0800 (PST) |
Hi, Peter: Thanks for the suggestion of using ID/IDREF. Unfortunely the source XML is generated via a generic reader/writer that reads each cell from a Excel spradsheet and writes to this XML, it does not have any business logic (which is one of the design goal) and therefore can not implement ID/IDREF easily. Xiaocun > Yes, XML has a built-in cross-reference mechanism > which uses special > attribute types called ID and IDREF. If you modify > your DTD: > > <!ELEMENT cell (#PCDATA)> > <!ATTLIST cell column CDATA #REQUIRED > questionnaire ID #IMPLIED > question IDREF #IMPLIED> > > Now you can say: > > <row row="16"> > <cell column="1">References Name</cell> > <cell column="2" > questionnaire="ABC123">References</cell> > <cell column="3">References Description</cell> > </row> > ...<rows in between skipped for brevity>... > <row row="28"> > <cell column="1" > question="ABC123">References</cell> > <cell column="2">text of Question 8<cell> > </row> > <row row="29"> > <cell column="1" > question="ABC123">References</cell> > <cell column="2">text of Question 9</cell> > </row> > > The ID/IDREF mechanism is one-to-many, so if I have > understood you > right, this is what you want. The advantage is that > ID/IDREF checking > is built into validating parsers, so a validation > will immediately > pick up on any IDREF attribute trying to reference a > non-existent ID > value (but it's OK to have an ID value which never > gets referenced). > The only restriction is that ID/IDREF values must be > Names (they must > begin with a letter and may not contain spaces). > > ///Peter > > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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