Re: [xsl] How to substitute a string based on number

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Hey It worked... :-)
Thanks a million to all the guys who gave the answer
for this.

-Deep


--- Joerg Pietschmann <joerg.pietschmann@xxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Deep,
> 
> Mailer Mailer <maillistboxes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > How can I substitute a string based on a number,
> e.g.
> > 
> > 1 --- Jaunary
> > 2 --- February
> [...]
> > In wrox book an implementation is given but it
> seems
> > to be MS specific. The implementation is
> [...] 
> > <xsl:variable name="monthnames"
> > select="msxml:node-set($monthnames.tf)"/>
> 
> It is MSXML specific but only slightly. Other
> processors
> have a similar extension function node-set(), look
> it
> up in the procesor specific dokumentation.
> 
> Depending on the problem you want to solve, you
> probably
> don't need this extension function. Try the
> following style
> sheet:
>   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>   <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>     xmlns:data="uri:some.uri.you.control"
>     exclude-result-prefixes="data">
> 
>     <data:monthnames.tf>
>      <mnth name="January"/>
>      <mnth name="February"/>
>      <mnth name="March"/>
>      <!-- snip, to keep the example short -->
>     </data:monthnames.tf>
>     
>     <xsl:template match="month">
>       <xsl:value-of
>
select="document('')/*/data:monthnames.tf/*[number()]/@name">
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match="node()"/>
>   </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> This should output the name of the month for each
> month element
> in your source XML which has a month number as its
> content. Well,
> at least if you complete the monthnames array
> properly. The technique
> is based on the fact that elements with a non-XSLT
> namespace are
> allowed in style sheets
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html#stylesheet-element,
> last paragraph), and that document('') reads the
> stylesheet itself.
> The "exclude-result-prefixes" ensures that the data
> namespace is
> not copied through into the output.
> 
> HTH
> J.Pietschmann
> 
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