Re: [xsl] Re: generate full xpath name to an attribute?

[Ray Tayek <rtayek@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:32 PM 3/31/03 +0200, you wrote:
> Do have a look here:
>
> http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010323001030
>
> This code generates a Xpath expression that uniquely selects any (type of)
> node -- even for a namespace node.

this example requires a bunch of m$ stuff. i will try to avoid that.

i saw something similar in the archives, but it was even scarier. see: 
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/199910/msg00432.html - this 
eats my file and tells me what everything is (i think). i have the files at 
http://tayek.com/~ray/xml/ - xpath2output.html was made by applying 
input.xsl to input.xsl using xmlspy.


> Of course, Mike is right that if element names belong to a non-null
> namespace, the environment to evaluate the expression must have exactly the
> same namespaces defined...
>
>
> =====
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

i'm sure that he is correct and that is something else i will need to deal 
with.

anyway this will tell me whether it is an attribute or not, so perhaps my 
script:


    <xsl:template match="name">
        <xsl:for-each select="ancestor-of-self::*">
          <xsl:value-of select="name()" /><xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
        </xsl:for-each>
        <xsl:value-of select="." />
      </xsl:template>

with an appropriate test for an attribute can be made to work.

do you think yours will work without the m$ junk? if so, i will give it a 
try (but i am a newbie to xsl). if not, i may have to try the m$ (yuck) 
thingie.

thamks

> "Ray Tayek" <rtayek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5.2.0.9.2.20030331031515.02681810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > hi, i need to generate the full xpath name (location) for attributes in
> the
> > following xsl (see below).
> >
> > instead of using <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of
> > select="name()"/></xsl:attribute> which gets me the just the attribute
> > (field) name, i would like to generate the full xpath expression from the
> > root of the document (i guess it would look something like:
> > /......./Node/SingleForces@attribute_name). i.e. what do i use in instead
> > of: <xsl:value-of select="name()"/> to get the fully qualified name for
> > this field from the root.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > <xsl:template match="Node/SingleForces">
> >          <td>
> >                  <xsl:for-each select="@*">
> >                          <xsl:element name="label">
> >                                  <xsl:attribute name="for"><xsl:value-of
> > select="name()"/></xsl:attribute>
> >                                  <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
> >                          </xsl:element>
> >                          <xsl:element name="input">
> >                                  <xsl:attribute
> > name="type">text</xsl:attribute>
> >                                  <xsl:attribute
> name="size">4</xsl:attribute>
> >                                  <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of
> > select="name()"/></xsl:attribute>
> >                                  <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of
> > select="name()"/></xsl:attribute>
> >                                  <xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of
> > select="."/></xsl:attribute>
> >                          </xsl:element>
> >                  </xsl:for-each>
> >          </td>
> >          <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </xsl:template> ...

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