Re: Another newbie question

["S.Ramaswamy" <srswamy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sanjay Saxena wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot. However, this does not work. As suggested, CONTAINERS
> is not my root. My XML looks as shown below:
> 
> <FORMS>
>     <CONTAINERS>
>         <CONTAINER>
>             <PRE_HTML>DEPT_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
>             <TITLE>Departments</TITLE>
>             <POST_HTML>DEPT_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
>         </CONTAINER>
> 
>         <CONTAINER>
>             <PRE_HTML>EMP_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
>             <TITLE>Employees</TITLE>
>             <POST_HTML>EMP_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
>         </CONTAINER>
>     </CONTAINERS>
> 
>     <DEPT_PREHTML>
>         <!-- Well-formed HTML. -->
>         <DIV id="Layer1" style="position: absolute">
>             <IMG src="/images/edu.gif" width="917"
>                  height="104"/>
>         </DIV>
>     </DEPT_PREHTML>
> 
>     <DEPT_POSTHTML>
>         <!-- Some more well-formed HTML. -->
>     </DEPT_POSTHTML>
> 
>     <EMP_PREHTML>
>         <!-- Some more well-formed HTML. -->
>     </EMP_PREHTML>
> 
>     <EMP_POSTHTML>
>         <!-- Some more well-formed HTML. -->
>     </EMP_POSTHTML>
> </FORMS>
> 
> I tried to use the complete path /FORMS/DEPT_PREHTML and
> /FORMS/DEPT_POSTHTML
> as values for PRE_HTML and POST_HTML elements, respectively. It still
> does
> not work. The XSL stylesheet looks as shown below:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/FORMS/CONTAINERS">
>     <xsl:for-each select="CONTAINER">
> 
>         <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/PRE_HTML]" />

   //* means any element that is a descendant of CONTAINER  
   whereas DEPT_PREHTML is a descendant of FORMS so 
   <xsl:copy-of select="ancestor::FORMS//*[name(.)=current()/PRE_HTML"
   ancestor::FORMS              select the element named FORMS which is
an ancestor of current node CONTAINER
   //                           select the descendants of FORMS
   [name(.)=current()/PRE_HTML] apply a filter on descendants such that
only the element whose tag
                                is equal to the current node's child
PRE_HTML is copied

  
> 
>         <!-- Do some more things here -->
> 
>         <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/POST_HTML]" />
> 
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> I tried using xsl:variable as suggested by another post and that did
> not work either. I am not seeing the node containing the well-formed
> HTML getting copied to the output.
> 
> Thanks again,
> -- Sanjay
> 
> David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> >      <xsl:template match="/CONTAINERS">
> > This only works if CONTAINERS is the document element but  you
> > indicated
> > I think that your DEPT_POSTHTML elements were outside this.
> >
> >         <xsl:copy-of select="PRE_HTML"
> >             <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|text()"/>
> >         </xsl:copy-of>
> >
> > you are confusing the syntax for xsl:copy and xsl:copy-f. and also
> > that select expression starts from the current CONTAINER node, but
> > PRE_HTML isn't a child of that.
> >
> > So....
> >
> > ===========================================
> > <x>
> > <CONTAINERS>
> >     <CONTAINER>
> >         <PRE_HTML>DEPT_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
> >         <TITLE>Departments</TITLE>
> >         <POST_HTML>DEPT_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
> >     </CONTAINER>
> >     <CONTAINER>
> >         <PRE_HTML>EMP_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
> >         <TITLE>Employees</TITLE>
> >         <POST_HTML>EMP_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
> >     </CONTAINER>
> > </CONTAINERS>
> >
> > <DEPT_PREHTML>
> >     <DIV id="Layer1" style="position: absolute">
> >         <IMG src="/images/edu.gif" width="917"
> > height="104"/>
> >     </DIV>
> > </DEPT_PREHTML>
> >
> > <DEPT_POSTHTML>
> >      <!-- Some more well formed HTML. -->kkk
> > </DEPT_POSTHTML>
> >
> > </x>
> >
> > ===========================================
> >
> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> >                 version="1.0"
> >                 >
> >
> > <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="CONTAINERS">pppp
> >     <xsl:for-each select="CONTAINER">l
> >
> >         <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/PRE_HTML]" />
> >
> >         <!-- Do some more things here -->
> >
> >         <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/POST_HTML]" />
> >
> >     </xsl:for-each>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > ===========================================
> >
> > David
> > PS you see it is better to ask on the list, than to ask directly:-)
> >
> > PPS You mail was included twice, once as text and once a HTML,
> > please
> > don't do that.
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:
> > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list

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