Re: [xsl] Filtering problem

["Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marcus,
 You can use "indentity transform" based stylesheet (as shown below)
conveniently, for creating filters:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="xml"  indent="yes" />

<!-- identity transform; copies everything -->
<xsl:template match="node() | @*">
  <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*" />
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<!-- filter 1 -->
<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(@*), 'dim1')]" />

<!-- filter 2 ; a priority is attached, otherwise filter 1 and filter
2 rules gets ambiguous -->
<xsl:template match="*[@dim1_a = 'yes']" priority="3" />

</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Mukul

On 6/28/06, Marcus Streets <marcus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have inherited some XML files that I need to filter.
> Because i have inherited the files I did not design the way the elements
> were tagged.
> But I have to write the xsl to do the filtering - and I am only just
> dipping my toe into xsl.
>
> I want to output XML - that I will feed into FrameMaker for typesetting.
>
> I want to filter on a number of dimensions.
>
> For various hysterical reasons the various elements have been taged with
> attributes of the form
>
> <element dim1_a="yes">
> or
> <element dim1_a="yes" dim1_b="yes">
>
> I want to create a filter that will include all elements where either:
>
> there are no attributes starting dim1
> or
> dim1_a="yes"
>
> And I need to do this for several dim1 dim2 etc.
>
> If needs be I can run a number of xsl transforms one for each dimension.
>
> I have some other attributes = e.g. role that I need to keep.
>
> Is this possible, or do I need to completely change the way these files
> are tagged.
>
> If so can I easily do that with xsl - or do I need to do it by hand.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcus