[xsl] Re: Dealing without global counters

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

This transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
 xmlns:order="my:order"
 exclude-result-prefixes="order"
 >
  <xsl:output method="text"/>
  <order:order>
    <n n="para" p="1"/>
    <n n="image" p="2"/>
    <n n="table" p="3"/>
  </order:order>

  <xsl:variable name="vOrder" select="document('')/*/order:*"/>

  <xsl:template match="chapter">
        db[1]=new dbRecord(chapter stuff)<xsl:text/>
      <xsl:for-each select="/chapter/*[self::para or self::image or
self::table]">
        <xsl:sort select="$vOrder/*[@n = name(current())]/@p"/>

        <xsl:variable name="vPos" select="position() + 1"/>
        db[<xsl:value-of select="$vPos"/>]<xsl:text/>
        <xsl:value-of select="concat('=new dbRecord(', name(), ' stuff)')"/>
      </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

when applied on your source.xml:

<chapter>
      <para>
      </para>
      <para>
      </para>
      <image>
      </image>
      <para>
      </para>
      <image>
      </image>
      <table>
      </table>
      <para>
      </para>
</chapter>

produces the wanted result:

        db[1]=new dbRecord(chapter stuff)
        db[2]=new dbRecord(para stuff)
        db[3]=new dbRecord(para stuff)
        db[4]=new dbRecord(para stuff)
        db[5]=new dbRecord(para stuff)
        db[6]=new dbRecord(image stuff)
        db[7]=new dbRecord(image stuff)
        db[8]=new dbRecord(table stuff)


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

"Robert Ogden" <Robert.Ogden@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:sfb12976.033@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I have done a bit of reading, and it seems global counters are not the
> answer in XSLT. That being said I have a problem (normally solved by a
> global counter) I need to solve. I'm building a TOC for an XML
> document.
> The best way is to offer xml structure and intended output.
>
> XML:
> <chapter>
>     <para>
>     </para>
>     <para>
>     </para>
>     <image>
>     </image>
>     <para>
>     </para>
>     <image>
>     </image>
>     <table>
>     <table>
>     <para>
>     <para>
> </chapter>
>
> Output (this output is a javascript array for an expandable TOC)
> db[1]=new dbRecord(chapter stuff)
> db[2]=new dbRecord(first para stuff)
> db[3]=new dbRecord(second para stuff)
> db[4]=new dbRecord(third para stuff)
> db[5]=new dbRecord(fourth para stuff)
> db[6]=new dbRecord(first image stuff)
> db[7]=new dbRecord(second image stuff)
> db[8]=new dbRecord(first table stuff)
>
> What I want to do is output a chapter, all text in a chapter, then all
> images for a chapter, and lastly all tables for a chapter.
> This is done repetitively for each chapter.
>
> For the text, calling a template that contains <xsl:number> would work.
> I would get a sequential numbering in the db[] (which IS required,
> db[number] where number is sequential 1 to N). But as you see the
> figures and tables are interlaced in the XML, and not desired to be that
> way in the TOC.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
>
> Robert Ogden
> IETM Developer
> Navy Programs
> (763) 572-7121
>
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