At 99/08/25 16:32 +0100, DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Sorry Ken, I'm not explaining very
well:
Sorry, Dave, I must not be answering very well. :{)}
source document has an element <q>
which
I want to add to a table of contents.
Being lazy, I haven't used the implied id Attribute
in the DTD.
Hence source line is:
<q>blah</q>
output wanted, in HTML
The TOC which refers to the element via a hot link.
<H4>Table of
contents</H4>
<p><a
href="">
...
Then in the body I need to have the id
as the target of the link from the table of contents.
<p> <a name="N49"> blah </a></p>
The missing id attribute I can put in using
generate-id() in the stylesheet, but I guess
that the id isn't available for use on the input side?
... but it is available from the input at all times during the run.
For what you need, you need only go over the source tree twice, once for
the table of contents and once for the body (or, of course, any other
times you may wish to visit the source tree).
Each time around you use generate-id(.) in a different construct of the
result tree, but because it is one run of the XSLT engine the value
returned for a given node is guaranteed to be the same. As soon as
you finish the run that guarantee is gone ... the next time around you
must treat the value created by generate-id(.) as brand new, even if it
coincidentally happens to be what it was before.
Note that the value generated for the result tree comes from the node in
the source tree ... you aren't asking anything about the result
tree.
I hope the example below helps.
........... Ken
T:\dave>type test.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test>
<q>blah 1</q>
<q>blah 2</q>
</test>
T:\dave>type test.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template
match="/">
<!--root rule-->
<H4>Toc</H4>
<xsl:for-each select="//q">
<p><a
href=""
select="."/></a></p>
</xsl:for-each>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="q">
<p><a
name="{generate-id(.)}"><xsl:value-of
select="."/></a></p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\dave>call xsl test.xml test.xsl test.htm
T:\dave>type test.htm
<H4>Toc</H4>
<p>
<a href="" 1</a>
</p>
<p>
<a href="" 2</a>
</p>
<body>
<p>
<a name="N3">blah 1</a>
</p>
<p>
<a name="N6">blah 2</a>
</p>
</body>
T:\dave>
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