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Subject: [xsl] Newbie getting desperate
From: "Ouagadougou Womp" <gogge1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:14:16 -0500
Hello
First of all I would like to apologies for this probably simple question. But
since english is not my first language I have failed to find all the solutions
that is probably out there.

To my problem. I am trying to extract data from an XML file using this
script:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<head></head>
<table border="1">

<xsl:for-each select="//data">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="//field[@tag='123']/subfield[@id='a']"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="//field[@tag='123']/subfield[@id='b']"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="//field[@tag='321']/subfield[@id='a']"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="//field[@tag='999']/subfield[@id='a']"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>

</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I get a table with the first found instance of each select, repeated as many
times as there are <data> tags. Here is an abbreviated XML example.

<file>

<data>
<field tag="123">
<subfiled id="a">I belong to the first data</subfield>
</field>
<field tag="321">
<subfield id="a">No1</subfield>
</field>
</data>

<field tag="123">
<subfiled id="a">I belong to the second data</subfield>
</field>
<field tag="999">
<subfiled id="a">I am a proud representative of No2</subfield>
</field>
</data>

And here is the result as translated into HTML (put in quotes to prevent
unexpected things):

<!--
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>I belong to the first data</td><td></td><td>No1</td><td>I am a proud
representative of No2</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>I belong to the first data</td><td></td><td>No1</td><td>I am a proud
representative of No2</td>
 </tr>
</body>
</html>
//-->

as opposed to the expected result:

<!--
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<table>
 <tr>
  <td>I belong to the first data</td><td></td><td>No1</td><td></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>I belong to the second data</td><td></td><td></td><td>I am a proud
representative of No2</td>
 </tr>
</body>
</html>
//-->

I have tried an XML set with many <data> entries. And every table row starts
with the first found <field tag='123'><subfield id='a'>, continues with the
first (and in my case only) found <field tag='321'><subfield id='a'> belonging
to a different <data> and of course ends with the first found 999+a. This
leaves me with a table filled with identical rows, allthough my XML data
differs. What do I do wrong?

Again foregive me for asking such a simple question, but I am getting
frustrated. I have succeeded earlier with simpler scripts. But now have hit
rock bottom.

Cheers
Anders

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