Re: [xsl] Reading Attributes in XSL

[pankaj.ahuja@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

This will exactly tell you what I am trying to do:

Problem:

XML to break into pages or into tables having 4 records each:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Person race="Asian" Sex="Male">
<Person1 FirstName="Pankaj" LastName="Ahuja">
<CharateristicsCollection>
<Characteristics Profession="Programmer"
jobs="3jobs">
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
</Characteristics>
<Characteristics Profession="Programmer1"
jobs="2jobs">
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
</Characteristics>
<Characteristics Profession="Programmer2"
jobs="1jobs">
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
</Characteristics>
<Characteristics Profession="Programme3r"
jobs="3jobs">
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
</Characteristics>
<Characteristics Profession="Programmer4"
jobs="3jobs">
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
</Characteristics>
<Characteristics Profession="Programmer5"
jobs="3jobs">
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
</Characteristics>
</CharateristicsCollection>
</Person1>
</Person>

Result desired:
1. Want to break this into table using XSL(XPATH) having 4 records
each (Including Attributes of Characteristics as well as Child
elements of Characteristics)
2.I want structure like this:



Asian

Male
Pankaj Ahuja

Programmer--(This one is the 1st attribute of
Characteristics)
6680 S 84121 80000
6681 S 84121 60000
6682 S 84121 70000

(Page Break after this as this shd break after 4 records)

3jobs --(This one is the 2nd attribute of Characteristics)
Programmer1--(This one is the 1st attribute of
Characteristics)
6680 S 84121 80000
6681 S 84121 60000

(Page Break after this as this shd break after 4 records)

2jobs --(This one is the 2nd attribute of Characteristics)
Programmer2
6680 S 84121 80000
1jobs

(Page Break after this as this shd break after 4 records)

and so on with each page

Problem Solving::

Have tried this :
CharateristicsCollection/Characteristics/Detail[position()
mod 4 = 1]
--
--
(. | following-sibling::* |../following-sibling::*/*)[position
()
&lt;= 4]">


but helps only if
XML is like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Person race="Asian" Sex="Male">
<Person1 FirstName="Pankaj" LastName="Ahuja">
<CharateristicsCollection>
<Characteristics>
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
<Detail Address="6680 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="80000"/>
<Detail Address="6681 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="60000"/>
<Detail Address="6682 S" Zip="84121"
Salary="70000"/>
</Characteristics>
</CharateristicsCollection>
</Person1>
</Person>



This works only if there are no multiple Detail collection in
separate groups.
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-------------------------------------

I cannot get this to work where it is needed to first read
the first attribute and then all attributes of the child and then
back to reading the second attribute of the parent element. Also how
to keep track of next items.




                                                                                                                                       
                      David Carlisle                                                                                                   
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> I am trying to read attributes of current node such that I read the first
> Attribute

Note that attribute order is stable but implementation defined.
What do you mean by "first attribute" ? You can use @*[1] to select the
first attribute in document order, but that need not be (and often is
not) the first attribute to appear on the element. (XML parsers are not
required to report the order in which attributes appear).

On the face of it you seem to want

<xsl:for-each select="@*[1]|*/@*">
 something for first attribute and attributes on children
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="@*[position()&gt;1]">
 something for later attributes
</xsl:for-each>

David

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