Subject: Re: Dynamically selecting Attributes From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:55:25 -0600 (MDT) |
suresh talluri wrote: > I recently came across this piece of code in this emailing list,can someone > explain me wot excalty does this special characters do.. Sigh... I'll bite. You need to do some more reading. Go to http://www.skew.org/xml/links/ and look at the section marked 'Specifications - XML and XSLT' and 'Tutorials - XML and XSLT'. In particular you need to understand XSLT, and to understand XSLT you have to understand XPath. > <xsl:template match="find"> Assuming the 'xsl' prefix maps to the correct namespace URI, this encloses an XSLT template that is a suitable match for an element node named 'find'. If the XSLT processor encounters such a node, there is a good chance that the instructions in this template will be executed. > <xsl:value-of select="//record/@*[name()=current()/@target]"/> This is an XSLT instruction to create a text node in the result tree. The character data in the text node will be the string-value of the first node in the node-set identified by the XPath expression //record/@*[name()=current()/@target] /@* : attributes with any name, in any namespace, belonging to... record : elements named record, that are... // : descendants of the root node. [ foo ] : narrows down the set to just those for which foo is true. name() : name of the context node (attribute name, in this case). = : equality comparison operator. /@target : attributes named target, that are children of... current() : the current node (the one that was current before this instruction was instantiated, as opposed to the context node). As per XPath rules, the comparison of a string (as returned by the name() function) and a node-set (as identified by @target) will be handled as a stringwise comparison, as if it were name()=string(current()/@target). The concept of string-value and the interaction of the string() function on node-sets is explained in the XPath Recommendation. Hopefully someone will get something out of this. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://www.skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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