Subject: Re: [xsl] hierarchic counting in flat structures From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:31:15 -0400 |
Hi everyone,
given a structure like
<H3></H3> <H4></H4> <H4></H4> <H3></H3> <H4></H4> <H3></H3> <H4></H4> <H4></H4> <H4></H4>
I would like to number the H4, re-starting on every H3. So the output is something like this:
H3: 1 H4: 1 H4: 2 H3: 2 H4: 1 H3: 3 H4: 1 H4: 2 H4: 3
The following xsl does the job, but I wonder if this solution is really effective and elegant.
<xsl:template match="H4"> <xsl:text>
 H4: </xsl:text> <xsl:variable name="myH3" select="preceding-sibling::H3[1]" /> <xsl:value-of select="1 + count(preceding-sibling::H4[preceding- sibling::H3 = $myH3])" />
The above will be performing a very inefficient comparison of the text values of nodes, and it will fail when you co-incidentally have the same value for more than one node.
I think you want this (which I don't have the time to throw into a quick test):
<xsl:template match="H4"> <xsl:text>
 H4: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="1 + count( preceding-sibling::H4 ) - count( preceding-sibling::H3[1]/preceding-sibling::H4 )"/ </xsl:template>
One of the exercises on day 2 of my class brings this approach to axes to light by mimicking the conversion of scanned legacy content into a structure.
"the difference between the count of all preceding sibling H4's and the count of the H4's that precede the closest preceding H3"
... which will give you the count of H4's up to to the closest preceding H3. Then add 1 for the given H4.
</xsl:template>
Are there better ways to solve my problem?
I think my suggestion is better because it is simply counting nodes in the tree and it is not evaluating equality expressions with the text values of subtrees.
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