RE: [xsl] Need to output an opening or closing tag by itself

["Hofman, Peter" <peter.hofman@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,

has been shown before on this list.
Have a look at the following thread:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/20
0401/msg00694.html

The selection you need in a template that handles e[@t='a'] looks like
this:

following-sibling::*[generate-id(preceding-sibling::e[1]) =
generate-id(current()) and following-sibling::e[1]/@t='b']

But that is just one approach.
You may also want to skip processing of e[@t='b'].

I suggest you dive into the xsl-list archive...

Cheers,
Peter

>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Frey [mailto:dpfrey@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: woensdag 25 juni 2008 6:30
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [xsl] Need to output an opening or closing tag by itself
>
>I have a simple XSLT problem for the gurus.
>
>
>This is my input document:
><root>
>  <e t="a"/>
>  <f/>
>  <f/>
>  <e t="b"/>
></root>
>
>
>This is the output document I want to produce:
><root>
>  <e>
>    <f/>
>    <f/>
>  </e>
></root>
>
>
>This is the stylesheet I wrote to do the transformation:
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
><xsl:stylesheet
>  version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>  <xsl:template match="/root">
>    <root>
>      <xsl:apply-templates/>
>    </root>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template match="e">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="@t ='a'">
>        <e>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:when test="@t ='b'">
>        </e>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>
>        <xsl:message terminate="yes">
>          Unexpected data in attribute t.
>        </xsl:message>
>      </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template match="f">
>    <xsl:copy/>
>  </xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>Here is the Saxon output:
>$ java -jar "c:\Program Files\Saxon\saxon9.jar" -o out.xml
>in.xml test.xslt Error on line 16 column 9 of
>file:/C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/DFREY/Desktop/test/test.xslt:
>  SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: The element type "e"
>must be terminated by the
>  matching end-tag "</e>".
>Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.
>
>
>I understand that the source of the error is that the XSLT
>file is not valid XML because the <e> tag doesn't have a
>matching </e> tag in the right place.
>
>How can I work around this issue to solve my problem?
>
>Thanks,
>David
>
>
>

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