Re: [xsl] Processing IDREFS attributes

[JBryant@xxxxxxxxx]

Well, I think the folks who wrote the specs thought you'd pass one IDREF 
at a time, rather than bunches of them. Also, I come from the school that 
keeps each function as atomic as possible, so I'd rather have tokenize and 
id be separate functions, since I'll undoubtedly use tokenize outside of 
id someday.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




Dan Vint <dvint@xxxxxxxxx> 
11/01/2005 04:03 PM
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thanks,

that was where I was going, but I'm surprised that a function was provided 

to track down IDs but not one to pull apart IDREFS, or build that tokenize 

functionality into the id() function itself.

I'm slowly building a list of reasons to move on to XLST 2, just lazy at 
the moment I guess ;-)

..dan

At 01:46 PM 11/1/2005, you wrote:
>Hi, Dan,
>
>Assuming that "Location", "Party", and "Organization" are three different
>locations in your source file, you'll need either a recursive template 
(if
>you use XSLT 1.0) or the tokenize function (if you use XSLT 2.0).
>
>If you do need a recursive template, it's a pretty simple one in this
>case:
>
><xsl:template name="process-ids">
>   <xsl:param name="in-string"/>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="contains($in-string, ' ')">
>       <!-- process an id here; substring-before($in-string, ' ') gets 
the
>id string to process-->
>       <xsl:call-template name="process-ids">
>         <xsl:with-param name="in-string"
>select="substring-after($in-string, ' ')"/>
>       <xsl:call-template>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <!-- process the last id here -->
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
></xsl:template>
>
>You'd call it with
>
><xsl:call-template name="process-ids">
>   <xsl:with-param name="in-string" select="@parameters"/>
></xsl:call-template>
>
>The XSLT 2.0 tokenize function is much less verbose:
>
><xsl:for-each select="tokenize(@references, ' ')">
>   <!-- process each id here; . gets the id string -->
></xsl:for-each>
>
>That's one of the reasons I like XSLT 2.0.
>
>Jay Bryant
>Bryant Communication Services
>(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
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>I've got a few places where I have an attribute of type IDREFS and a
>sequence of ID values like references="Location Party Organization". I 
had
>
>thought a simple for-each loop would pull these apart with the id()
>function, in something like this:
>
><xsl:for-each select="id(@references)">
>                  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
></xsl:for-each>
>
>But it doesn't work. What I get is the content of @references with the
>above.
>
>The only other solution I have thought about is creating a template and
>recursively pulling apart the string. This should work, but I would think
>there is a simpler way to make this work. Is there a solution I missed?
>
>..dan
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When H.H. Bennett was asked why he preferred to be out
shooting landscapes rather than spending time in his portrait studio:

"It is easier to pose nature and less trouble to please."

http://www.portalwisconsin.org/bennett_feature.cfm