Re: [xsl] Stumped on XPath

Ok, I seem to have got it. I changed the key to read <xsl:key name="r"
match="appendix" use="refnote/@id"/>... After testing 5 or 6 test
scenarios it's giving me exactly what I want. Thank you both so much
for the help.

Cheers

On 2/13/06, Spencer Tickner <spencertickner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Wendell,
>
> Thanks for the write back, here's the xslt code..
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>              xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
> <xsl:key name="r" match="refnote" use="@id"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="doc">
> <html>
> <head/>
> <body>
>  <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="sentence">
>  <p><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="clause">
>  <p class="clause"><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="strong">
> <strong><xsl:apply-templates/></strong>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="appendix"/>
> <xsl:template match="id">
> <xsl:for-each select="key('r',@ref)">
>  <xsl:text> (see Appendix </xsl:text>
>  <xsl:number format="A"/>
>  <xsl:text>) </xsl:text>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I'll give a shot at trying to switch his code to count the appendix
instead.
>
> thanks,
>
> Spencer
>
> On 2/13/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Spenser,
> >
> > If you posted your original XSLT which David fixed, that would help,
> > but I think I remember it well enough -- David's suggestion should
> > work cleanly as long as you say
> >
> > <xsl:number from="appendix"/>
> >
> > instead of the <xsl:number/> he guessed at.
> >
> > The principle he elucidated, namely that you traverse to the
> > referenced node and do the operation there, still applies.
> > <xsl:number/> (in some configuration) spares you all the work of
> > counting things using explicit XPath. The only tricky part is getting
> > the xsl:number set up to give what you want. In this case, unless you
> > say you want to count the appendix elements, it uses the default,
> > which is counting the refnote elements themselves, in their local
> > context (i.e. each one inside its parent). This gives you "1" (i.e.
> > "A") for refnotes 1, 2, and 4, which are each the first refnotes in
> > their parents. (refnote 3 will get you "B"). By switching this to
> > count the appendixes you should get "A" for refnote 1, "B" for
> > refnotes 2 and 3, and "C" for 4.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Wendell
> >
> > At 04:03 PM 2/13/2006, you wrote:
> > >Hi Wendell and David,
> > >
> > >Sorry I was out of town on a course. I do agree that the solution that
> > >David suggested is cleaner, however it only works with the original
> > >xml. Sorry if the second example was obscure, perhaps this demostrates
> > >it better:
> > >
> > >XML
> > >
> > ><?xml version="1.0"?>
> > ><doc>
> > >  <manual>
> > >  <sentence>This is a sentence with a reference<id ref="1"/> as an
> > >inline element</sentence>
> > >     <clause>This is a clause with inline elements <strong>
> > >and</strong> a reference <id ref="4"/></clause>
> > ></manual>
> > ><appendix>
> > >  <refnote id="1">This is the first reference</refnote>
> > >  </appendix>
> > >  <appendix>
> > >  <refnote id="2">This is the second reference</refnote>
> > ><refnote id="3">This is the third reference</refnote>
> > ></appendix>
> > ><appendix>
> > >         <refnote id="4">This is the third reference</refnote>
> > >  </appendix>
> > ></doc>
> > >
> > >Should produce:
> > >
> > ><html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html"></head><body>
> > >  <p>This is a sentence with a reference (see Appendix A)  as an
> > >inline element</p>
> > >     <p class="clause">This is a clause with inline elements <strong>
> > >and</strong> a reference  (see Appendix C) </p>
> > ></body></html>
> > >
> > >But instead produces:
> > >
> > ><html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html"></head><body>
> > >  <p>This is a sentence with a reference (see Appendix A)  as an
> > >inline element</p>
> > >     <p class="clause">This is a clause with inline elements <strong>
> > >and</strong> a reference  (see Appendix A) </p>
> > ></body></html>
> > >
> > >I'm sure it's something small I'm missing on my end. I do agree that
> > >this would be a much better solution, so any thoughts would be
> > >appreciated
> >
> >
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