Re: [xsl] Emulating XPATH2 range in XSLT 1.0

Subject: Re: [xsl] Emulating XPATH2 range in XSLT 1.0
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:04:50 -0700
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Hermann
Stamm-Wilbrandt<STAMMW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> You are discovering the "iter" function/template of FXSL 1.x, which
>> has been available for 7+ years :) B :
>
> So "iter" corresponds to template named "loop".
>
>
> "rannge:to" from below post does need very little overhead in
> writing over the XSLT2 statement "for $f in 1 to 10000 ...".
> For small iteration count (<10000) I would prefer it over "loop".
>
> Does FXSL provide an equivalent to "range:to" ?


generateFromTo.xsl from my previous post.

The template name is "generateBatch".






> B  B  B  B  B  B  Dimitre Novatchev





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> You are discovering the "iter" function/template of FXSL 1.x, which
> has been available for 7+ years :) B :
>
> Here is the file generateFromTo.xsl from Fxsl 1.x :
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> B xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> B xmlns:ext="http://exslt.org/common";
> B xmlns:f="http://fxsl.sf.net/";
> B xmlns:myIncrement="f:myIncrement"
> B exclude-result-prefixes="ext f myIncrement"
> B >
>
> B <xsl:import href="iter.xsl"/>
> B <!-- To be applied on any xml file -->
>
> B <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
>
> B <xsl:template match="/">
> B  B <xsl:call-template name="generateBatch">
> B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="pFrom" select="3"/>
> B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="pTo" select="300"/>
> B  B </xsl:call-template>
> B </xsl:template>
>
> B <myIncrement:myIncrement/>
>
> B <xsl:template name="generateBatch">
> B  B <xsl:param name="pFrom"/>
> B  B <xsl:param name="pTo"/>
>
> B  B <xsl:variable name="vFunIncr"
> B  B  B  B  select="document('')/*/myIncrement:*[1]"/>
>
> B  B <xsl:variable name="vResult">
> B  B  B <xsl:call-template name="scanIter">
> B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="arg1" select="$pTo - $pFrom + 1"/>
> B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="arg2" select="$vFunIncr"/>
> B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="arg3" select="$pFrom - 1"/>
> B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="arg4" select="'obj'"/>
> B  B  B </xsl:call-template>
> B  B </xsl:variable>
>
> B  B <xsl:copy-of select="ext:node-set($vResult)/*[position() > 1]"/>
> B  </xsl:template>
>
> B  <xsl:template match="myIncrement:*" mode="f:FXSL">
> B  B  <xsl:param name="arg1"/>
> B  B  B  <childnode>
> B  B  B  <xsl:value-of select="$arg1 + 1"/>
> B  B  B  </childnode>
> B  </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> When applied on any XML file (ignored), it produces the wanted (long
> to be included) result.
>
> The above was written at the time with demonstration purposes and uses
> simple recursion.
>
> I will provide a DVC-style of the same transformation, which has no
> problems with recursion stack overflow for big and practical values of
> $pTo - $pFrom.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
> ---------------------------------------
> Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
> ---------------------------------------
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> -------------------------------------
> Never fight an inanimate object
> -------------------------------------
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>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Hermann
> Stamm-Wilbrandt<STAMMW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Emulating the XSLT2 statement
>> B  B for $f in 1 to 10000
>> B  B  B ...
>>
>> may be done in XSLT1 (providing similar scoping of variable $f) by:
>> B  B <xsl:for-each select="range:to(1,10000)">
>> B  B  B <xsl:variable name="f" select="."/>
>> B  B  B ...
>> B  B </xsl:for-each>
>>
>> In this case the complete set of numbers is generated into memory.:
>> For bigger iteration count ("1 to 1000000" in T2.xsl) this
>> may cause problems for the XSLT processor.
>>
>> Therefore "loop.xsl" may be used (T2.xsl, T3.xsl) to just iterate and
>> do not generate all the numbers into memory. In order to allow for
>> different bodies of the loops a template with name "loop" is called.
>> Different implementations (body2.xsl, body3.xsl) are included
>> together with "loop.xsl" into different stylesheets (T2.xsl, T3.xsl).
>>
>>
>> I teststed this successfully with the following XSLT 1.0 processors:.
>> - xsltproc (Using libxml 20626, libxslt 10117 and libexslt 813)
>> - xalan-j (2.7.1)
>> - IBM Websphere DataPower compiler
>>
>>
>> All files may be downloaded here:
>> http://www.stamm-wilbrandt.de/en/xsl-list/range/files.zip
>>
>> Find an example execution for T3.xsl at the bottom.
>>
>> $ cat range.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl B  = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>> B xmlns:exslt = "http://exslt.org/common";
>> B xmlns:func B = "http://exslt.org/functions";
>> B xmlns:range = "urn:xpath1range"
>> B extension-element-prefixes="func">
>>
>> B <func:function name="range:to">
>> B  B <xsl:param name="a"/>
>> B  B <xsl:param name="b"/>
>>
>> B  B <func:result select="exslt:node-set(range:TO($a,$b))/*/text()"/>.
>> B </func:function>
>>
>> B <func:function name="range:TO">
>> B  B <xsl:param name="a"/>
>> B  B <xsl:param name="b"/>
>>
>> B  B <xsl:choose>
>> B  B  B <xsl:when test="$a > $b"/>>
>> B  B  B <xsl:when test="$a = $b">>>
>> B  B  B  B <func:result>
>> B  B  B  B  B <e><xsl:value-of select="$a"/></e>
>> B  B  B  B </func:result>
>> B  B  B </xsl:when>
>> B  B  B <xsl:otherwise>>
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:variable name="m" select="$a + floor(($b - $a) div 2)"/>
>> B  B  B  B <func:result>
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:copy-of select="range:TO($a,$m)"/>
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:copy-of select="range:TO($m+1,$b)"/>
>> B  B  B  B </func:result>
>> B  B  B </xsl:otherwise>
>> B  B </xsl:choose>
>> B </func:function>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>>
>>
>> $ cat loop.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl=">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>>
>> B <xsl:template name="loop">
>> B  B <xsl:param name="from"/>
>> B  B <xsl:param name="to"/>
>>
>> B  B <xsl:choose>
>> B  B  B <xsl:when test="$from &gt; $to"/>
>> B  B  B <xsl:when test="$from = $to">
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:call-template name="body">
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="iter" select="$from"/>
>> B  B  B  B </xsl:call-template>
>> B  B  B </xsl:when>
>> B  B  B <xsl:otherwise>
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:variable name="middle"
>> B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B select="$from + floor(($to - $from) div
2)"/>
>>
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:call-template name="loop">
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from" />
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$middle" />
>> B  B  B  B </xsl:call-template>
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:call-template name="loop">
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$middle+1" />
>> B  B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$to" />
>> B  B  B  B </xsl:call-template>
>> B  B  B </xsl:otherwise>
>> B  B </xsl:choose>
>> B </xsl:template>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>> $ cat T1.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl B  = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>> B xmlns:range = "urn:xpath1range">
>>
>> B <xsl:include href="range.xsl"/>>
>>
>> B <xsl:template match="/">.
>> B <!--:
>> B  B for $f in 1 to 10000
>> B  B  B ...
>>
>> B  B emulated by:
>>
> <xsl:for-each select="range:to(1,10000)">
>> B  B  B <xsl:variable name="f"
> select="."/>
>> B  B  B ...
>> B  B </xsl:for-each>
>> B -->
>> B  B <xsl:for-each select="range:to(1,10000)">
>> B  B  B <xsl:variable name="f" select="."/>
>>
>> B  B  B <xsl:value-of select="$f"/>
>> B  B </xsl:for-each>
>> B </xsl:template>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>> $ cat T2.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>">
>>
>> B <xsl:output method="text"/>
>>
>> B <xsl:include href="loop.xsl"/>
>> B <xsl:include href="body2.xsl"/>
>>
>> B <xsl:template match="/">.
>> B  B <xsl:call-template name="loop">
>> B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="from" select="1" />
>> B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="to" select="1000000" />
>> B  B </xsl:call-template>
>> B </xsl:template>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>> $ cat body2.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>">
>>
>> B <xsl:template name="body">
>> B  B <xsl:param name="iter"/>
>> B  B <xsl:value-of select="$iter"/>
>> B </xsl:template>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>> $ cat T3.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>> B <xsl:output method="xml" />
>>
>> B <xsl:include href="loop.xsl"/>
>> B <xsl:include href="body3.xsl"/>
>>
>> B <xsl:template match="/">.
>> B  B <file>
>> B  B  B <xsl:call-template name="loop">
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="from" select="data/loop/@from" />)
>> B  B  B  B <xsl:with-param name="to" select="data/loop/@to" />
>> B  B  B </xsl:call-template>
>> B  B </file>
>> B </xsl:template>
>>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>> $ cat body3.xsl
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>> B xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>">
>>
>> B <xsl:template name="body">
>> B  B <xsl:param name="iter"/>
>> B  B <data>
>> B  B  B <no><xsl:value-of select="$iter"/></no>
>> B  B  B <sqr><xsl:value-of select="$iter*$iter"/></sqr>
>> B  B  B <name><xsl:value-of select="data/pers/lname" />, <xsl:value-of
>> select="data/pers/fname" /></name>
>> B  B </data>>
>> B </xsl:template>
>> </xsl:stylesheet>
>> $ cat data.xml
>> <data>
>> B <loop from="3" to="5"/>
>> B <pers>
>> B  B <lname>Smith</lname>>
>> B  B <fname>John</fname>>>
>> B </pers>
>> </data>
>>
>> $ xsltproc T3.xsl data.xml | tidy -q -xml
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <file>
>> B <data>
>> B  B <no>3</no>
>> B  B <sqr>9</sqr>.
>> B  B <name>Smith, John</name>
>> B </data>>
>> B <data>>>
>> B  B <no>4</no>
>> B  B <sqr>16</sqr>
>> B  B <name>Smith, John</name>
>> B </data>>
>> B <data>>>
>> B  B <no>5</no>
>> B  B <sqr>25</sqr>
>> B  B <name>Smith, John</name>
>> B </data>>
>> </file>
>>
>> $
>>
>>
>> Mit besten GrC<Cen / Best wishes,
>>
>> Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk
-------------------------------------
Never fight an inanimate object
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