Re: [xsl] equivalent for 'while'

Subject: Re: [xsl] equivalent for 'while'
From: RQamar <qamar_rahil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:24:02 +0000
Hi

I've managed to retrieve the grandchild of 'Pain' in the following way (not sure its the best way though):
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<xsl:template match="DEFCONCEPT" mode="top">
<xsl:if test="@name = $prime"> <!--resolves to Pain-->
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="@id"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:element name="PrimeName"><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></xsl:element><!-- e.g. Pain-->
<xsl:if test="//*[@name = $constraint]"> <!--resolves to Headache-->
<xsl:element name="SubConcepts">
<xsl:element name="SubConcept">
<xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:value-of select="@id"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:if> </xsl:template>
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The resulting output is such

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Top>
<PrimeConcept id="10180">
<PrimeName>Pain</PrimeName>
<SubConcepts>
<SubConcept id="10180" name="Pain"/>
</SubConcepts>
</PrimeConcept>
</Top>
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I have two problems though. First, my <SubConcept> element tag displays 'Pain' and '10180' instead of 'Headache' and '10279'. Is that because the control still remains at the 'Pain' element?


Second, the actual output I'd like is
<PrimeConcept></PrimeConcept>
<SubConcepts>
   <SubConcept></SubConcept>
</SubConcepts>

but I'm not sure how to create a top-level node <SubConcepts> from within the <PrimeConcept> if clause.

Could someone please help me out with this?

Thank you
Rahil

Andrew Welch wrote:



It's not immediately obvious how you arrived at your output, for example where does the SubConcept/id value of '11000' come from?







Oh the '11000' is just an id I made up for completing the XML document. However it comes from some other part of document 2 which I havent shown in the post (to avoid lengthy chunks of code).



That didn't help matters then...

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