Re: [xsl] Could not select the text() of both parent & child nodes simultaneously

Subject: Re: [xsl] Could not select the text() of both parent & child nodes simultaneously
From: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:30:28 -0700 (PDT)
Hi David,
 
I am very new to XML development, not to mention about XSLT and
hesitates to move to version 2.0 for 3 reasons:
 
( i ) 1.0 is sufficient for
what I need to do but there is bound to be better ways to do it in 2.0.
( ii )
XPath & XSLT 2.0 comes at a cost for recent release of Saxon licensing models.
( iii ) Believes that a schema/DTD is required by the stylesheet. Not familiar
with how to set it up yet.
 
Any how, below is the error I have encountered
after having changed the stylesheet version to 2.0 (line 2):
 
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
exclude-result-prefixes="ns">
.....
 
Error on line 83 
XPTY0004: Cannot compare java-type:definition.Sport to
xs:string
at xsl:apply-templates (#13)
processing //p[1]
; SystemID: ; Line#:
83; Column#: -1
net.sf.saxon.trans.XPathException: Cannot compare
java-type:definition.Sport to xs:string
at
net.sf.saxon.expr.ValueComparison.compare(ValueComparison.java:638)
at
net.sf.saxon.expr.GeneralComparison.compare(GeneralComparison.java:619)
at
net.sf.saxon.expr.SingletonComparison.effectiveBooleanValue(SingletonComparis
on.java:102)
at
net.sf.saxon.expr.QuantifiedExpression.effectiveBooleanValue(QuantifiedExpres
sion.java:226)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.Choose.processLeavingTail(Choose.java:679)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.Template.applyLeavingTail(Template.java:203)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.applyTemplates(ApplyTemplates.java:345)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.apply(ApplyTemplates.java:210)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.processLeavingTail(ApplyTemplates.java:1
74)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Block.processLeavingTail(Block.java:556)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.Instruction.process(Instruction.java:93)
at
net.sf.saxon.expr.LetExpression.process(LetExpression.java:378)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.ElementCreator.processLeavingTail(ElementCreator.java:2
96)
at net.sf.saxon.instruct.Template.applyLeavingTail(Template.java:203)
at
net.sf.saxon.instruct.ApplyTemplates.applyTemplates(ApplyTemplates.java:345)
at net.sf.saxon.Controller.transformDocument(Controller.java:1807)
at
net.sf.saxon.Controller.transform(Controller.java:1621)
 
Back to the original
question, what is the XPath statement in XSLT to get the content of both <a>
(team) and <p> (goals) at the sametime?
 
Below are some more examples I have
attempted without success still:
 ( i ) <xsl:template
match="ns:p[ns:strong='World Cup Team:']">
<xsl:for-each
select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">
<team><xsl:value-of
select="concat(
or../ns:a/normalize-space(), normalize-space())"/></team>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Output
<team>Brasil (30 goals)<team>
<team>Brasil (25 goals)<team>
<team>Brasil (22 goals)<team>
<team>Brasil (15
goals)<team>

 
( iii ) <xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='World Cup
Team:']">
<xsl:for-each select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">
<team><xsl:value-of select="concat(ns:a/text()[normalize-space()],
text()[normalize-space()])"/></team>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
or 
( iv
) <xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='World Cup Team:']">
<xsl:for-each
select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">
<team><xsl:copy-of
select="concat(ns:a/text()[normalize-space()],
text()[normalize-space()])"/></team>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Output<team> />
<team> />
<team> />
<team> />
 
Attempts ( i ) or ( ii )
appears to be closest but the context of <a> (e.g. Brasil) needs to move to
the next node (e.g. <team> Argentina (25 goals) <team>) and so on.
 
I am more
than happy to accept suggestions on how best to retrieve these data with
either version.
Many thanks again,
Jack
 
( ii ) <xsl:template
match="ns:p[ns:strong='World Cup Team:']">
<xsl:for-each
select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">
<team><xsl:copy-of
select="concat(../ns:a/normalize-space(), normalize-space())"/></team>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>



----- Original Message ----
From: David
Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 16
June, 2010 12:10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Could not select the text() of both
parent & child nodes simultaneously

On 15/06/2010 15:04, Jack Bush wrote:
>
Hi All,
>
> I am stucked with an XSLT 1.0 XPath issue when trying to reference
the content of either a parent/child nodes at the same time without much luck.
Let's have a look at the XML document I am trying to parse:

The following is
not well formed, so hopefully your source doesn't look 
like that, it's so far
from being well formed i would hesitate to guess 
what your input does like,
which makes answering the question a bit hard.
>  <p>
> <
> <
> <strong>World
Cup Team:</strong>br clear="none" />a shape="rect">Brasil</a>(30 goals)<
> <br
clear="none" />a shape="rect">Argentina</a>(25 goals)<
> <br clear="none" />a
shape="rect">Germany</a>(22 goals)<
> <br clear="none" />a
shape="rect">USA</a>(15 goals)<
> .......
> </p>br clear="none" />
> The
desire transformation outcome would to produce the following XML document:
>
<team>Brasil (30 goals)<team>
> <team>Argentina (25 goals)<team>
>
<team>Germany (22 goals)<team>
> <team>USA (15 goals)<team>
> ......
>
> The
following stylesheets achieve either of the text() but not both:
>
> <-- Only
get the teams but not goals ----->
> <xsl:template
match="ns:p[ns:strong='World Cup Team:']">
> <xsl:for-each
select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">
> <team><xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space()"/></team>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> < 
-- Get all teams and goals for all nodes on the same line continuously.
Similar to printf statement -->
> <xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='World
Cup Team:']">
> <xsl:for-each select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">
>
<team><xsl:value-of select="../../normalize-space()"/></team>
>
</xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <  --- Only get the goals but not teams
--->
> <xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='World Cup Team:']">
>
<xsl:for-each select="text()[normalize-space() != '']">
> <team><xsl:value-of
select="normalize-space()"/></team>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I
am using JDOM and Saxon 9.1 to carry out the transformation on Windows XP.
>
If you are using saxon 9, why do you ask for an XSLt 1 solution, since 
you
are using XSLT 2?
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