Hi:
As a revisit of a recent xslt app I posted about I did some work trying
to redo the intersection code in one of the stylesheets. I ended up not
making any change to the basic syntax of the intersection approach I
already had, but I wanted to show some of the approaches that worked,
and didn't work, and ask some questions. At this point, I understand
empirically what works and what doesn't, but I was curious about some of
the reasons under the hood for the results I got.
this is the XML
http://seanwhalen.home.comcast.net/intersection/datasource.xml
and the XSLT:
http://seanwhalen.home.comcast.net/intersection/picknodes.xsl
(note that Comcast doesn't send XML files the way firefox expects)
The first example (*intersection_ConCat_and_IDs*) gets the right answer,
and is pretty close to what I'm really using. That template takes 2
attributes and concats them to match the key in a separate nodeset.
I spent a lot of time with the second example (*intersection_XY*) but
could not get the syntax to work. This template tries to match the
individual H and V attributes without concating them, but it gets the
wrong answer because it matches attributes from different nodes in the
set I'm trying to search. This is the core of the template:
<xsl:variable name = "intersection" select = "$polo/square[ @h
=$marco/square/@h and @v = $marco/square/@v ] " />
My question is, is there a practical way to get this syntax to work?
An alternative to adding offsets to find nodes with neighboring
attribute values would be to subtract the attributes from the 2 nodesets
and consider a match anything where the absolute value of the difference
was less than or equal to one, <= 1 but the problem above got in the way.
The third example (*intersection_X_Plus_1*) is the same as the previous
except that I added "1" to the H attribute in the test, which is what
the actual Minesweeper code does in order to test squares that boarder
the one that was clicked:
<xsl:variable name = "intersection" select = "$polo/square[@h =
$marco/square/@h + 1 and @v = $marco/square/@v ] " />
that code doesn't behave anything like the example it is based on. The "
+ 1" limited the search to just the first "H" value. There was a brief
comment about how nodesets behave in expressions like this, but a I
could use a deeper explanation.
The last two (*intersection_Count*) use the standard counting method for
determining the intersection.
<xsl:variable name = "intersection" select ="$polo[count(. | $marco) =
count($marco )] " />
This is successful, but I don't see a good way to manipulate the
individual attributes (again, to add 1 to a value to find nodes with
neighboring values).
This is all related to trying to speed up the Minesweeper app at
http://seanwhalen.home.comcast.net/sweeperscript/
Any thoughts or feedback would be appreciated.
Regards,
Sean