[xsl] Re: gather all similar elements in different docs

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

ufff... nevermind. I needed to do:

 <xsl:apply-templates select="$defs/*">


On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Robert Koberg wrote:

> Hi, (using saxon9)
>
> I have a few pages that each contain a table of definitions. The  
> tables look like (they do not have a namespace):
>
>  <table border="0" cellspacing="0">
>      <tr>
>         <td>
>            <p>absenteeism</p>
>         </td>
>         <td>
>            <p>frequent or habitual absence from school</p>
>         </td>
>      </tr>
> ....
>
> Can I gather up all of the TR elements, like my defs variable below  
> (or some other way) and apply-templates on them (while sorting)? The  
> stylesheet below causes an error "Too many nested apply-templates  
> calls. The stylesheet may be looping." at the <xsl:apply-templates  
> select="$defs">
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";  
> version="2.0">
>
>  <xsl:variable name="defs">
>    <xsl:copy-of select="doc('lsb/content/glossary-1.1.1.xml')//tr"/>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="doc('lsb/content/modules-1-glossary.xml')// 
> tr"/>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="doc('lsb/content/modules-2-glossary.xml')// 
> tr"/>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="doc('lsb/content/modules-3-glossary.xml')// 
> tr"/>
>    <xsl:copy-of select="doc('lsb/content/modules-4-glossary.xml')// 
> tr"/>
>  </xsl:variable>
>
>  <xsl:template match="/">
>    <glossentries>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="$defs">
>        <xsl:sort select="normalize-space(td[1]/p/text())"/>
>      </xsl:apply-templates>
>    </glossentries>
>  </xsl:template>
>
>  <xsl:template match="tr">
>    <xsl:variable name="term" select="normalize-space(td[1]/p/ 
> text())"/>
>    <xsl:variable name="file-name" select="translate($term, ' ',  
> '-')"/>
>    <glossentry file-name="{$file-name}">
>      <term>
>        <xsl:value-of select="$term"/>
>      </term>
>      <definition>
>        <xsl:copy-of select="td[2]/*"/>
>      </definition>
>    </glossentry>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> thanks,
> -Rob