Re: [xsl] Re: Method for delimiting template results

[Ted Stresen-Reuter <tedmasterweb@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the reply. Upon reflection, I realized that I had the 
solution and then saw your email. However, I also realized that this 
particular solution won't work if my checkbox elements are inside of a 
TABLE element (and they are) because the context for the position() and 
last() is the enclosing TD element.

Any suggestions on how I can "globalize" the context short of doing two 
passes on the xml source (to reduce it to, say, just the FORM element)?

Ted

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 03:53  PM, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

> Hi Ted,
>
> The following transformation produces the wanted result. Note the use
> position().
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>   <xsl:output method="text" />
>   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
>
>      <xsl:template match="/">
>        array(<xsl:apply-templates/>)
>      </xsl:template>
>
>      <xsl:template match="input[@type = 'checkbox']">
>        <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
>        <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
>        <xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
>        <xsl:if test="not(position() = last())">,</xsl:if>
>      </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> When applied on this source.xml:
>
> <t>
>   <input type="checkbox" name="first"/>
>   <input type="checkbox" name="second"/>
>   <input type="checkbox" name="third"/>
> </t>
>
> The result is:
>
>        array("first","second","third")
>
>
>
> =====
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
>
>
> "Ted Stresen-Reuter" <tedmasterweb@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:3B94301D-4F4E-11D7-92A9-00039315D01C@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > Periodically I have a need to delimit the output from a template.
> >
> > In PHP I push all the variables onto an array and then "join" them 
> > with
> > a ", " into a string. Works great.
> >
> > In XSLT I would start by using the following:
> >
> >      <xsl:template match="/">array(<xsl:apply-templates
> > />)</xsl:template>
> >      <xsl:template match="input[@type = 'checkbox']">"<xsl:value-of
> > select="@name" />"</xsl:template>
> >
> > The problem here, however, is that the result would consist of:
> > array("fist""second""third") and what I want is:
> > array("first","second","third")
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to do that in XSLT?
> >
> > Ted
> >
> >
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>
>
>
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