RE: [xsl] Traversing the tree

["Agnisys Technology \(P\) Ltd." <agnisys@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Michael, that example helped me solve the problem. 
Thanks to Mukul too, for his help. 
Anupam.


--- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This kind of problem is best tackled using recursion. It's difficult to
> write your first recursive stylesheet, but it's a very powerful technique to
> have under your belt. 
> 
> Basically you need to write a template that processes one of the siblings,
> passing it the value of your "counter" or "running-total" as a parameter.
> The template needs to make whatever changes are necessary to the counter or
> running total, then make a recursive call to process the next element if
> there is one, passing the new value of the counter or running total as a
> parameter. When the final sibling is reached, you return (or write to the
> output) the final value of the counter.
> 
> You can do this either with call-template or apply-templates (perhaps using
> a special mode). I find it easier to use apply-templates, for two reasons:
> (a) the current node is passed as an implicit parameter, and (b) the
> recursion often terminates naturally when there are no more siblings. 
> 
> Here's an example that totals @price*@qty over a set of sibling elements:
> 
> <xsl:template match="order">
>   <total-value>
>     <xsl:apply-template select="order-item[1]">
>       <xsl:with-param name="running-total" select="0"/>
>     </xsl:apply-templates>
>   </total-value>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="order-item">
>   <xsl:param name="running-total"/>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="following-sibling::order-item">
>     <xsl:apply-template select="following-sibling::order-item[1]">
>       <xsl:with-param name="running-total" select="$running-total +
> (@price*@qty)"/>
>     </xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:value-of select="$running-total + (@price*@qty)"/>
>     </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> I hope you can see how to adapt this technique to your problem.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> 


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