Subject: [xsl] Re: Suggestion: transparent id-ref traversal with XPath? From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 06:25:45 +0200 |
Why don't you use the id() function? This can also be done using xsl:key and the key() function. ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL "Gunther Schadow" <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3EC94729.9050101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Hi, just to bounce off an idea. Suppose I have this very simplified > use case: > > <order> > <billingAddress> > ... > </billingAddress> > <shippingAddress> > ... > </shippingAddress> > </order> > > and suppose I am tracking addresses as location objects with lots > of data such as, street, telephone number, GPS location, map drawing, > picture of the front of the builing and other stuff (hey this is > just an example, my real use case is special.) The point is this: > in a significant number of cases one address will be the SAME > (= IDENTICAL) address-object and I may not want to have to repeat > its data for both in an instance. The reason is not just to save > space but also because I know that the two addresses are IDENTICAL > I don't want to send two copies of them. > > Now this is easy to do with some ID/IDREF trick: > > <order> > <billingAddress id="1"> > ... > </billingAddress> > <shippingAddress ref="1"/> > </order> > > when it comes to XSLT and writing XPath expression, however, things > get more complicated now. I now have to add conditional paths that > go > > order/shippingAddress/mapLocation > > or > > *[@id="order/shippingAddress/@ref]/mapLocation > > Wouldn't it be cool if one could somehow specify in XSLT that there > are certain links that XPath could translate? > > In this case I could somewhere say: > > <x:xpath-view map="order/shippingAddress" select="*[@id=this()/@ref]"/> > > and then the XPath engine would handle this transparently? Well, > I suppose I could also do this union instead: > > order/shippingAddress/mapLocation > |*[@id="order/shippingAddress/@ref]/mapLocation > > but it is more tedious. > > regards, > -Gunther > > -- > Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care > Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine > tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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