RE: [xsl] processing multiple values in a single attribute

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In XSLT 2.0 you can do 

<xsl:for-each select="tokenize(@FAULTS, ' ')">

to iterate over the values.

If you're stuck with XSLT 1.0, there's str:tokenize in the EXSLT library
(www.exslt.org)

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie O [mailto:charlieo0@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 15 May 2009 22:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] processing multiple values in a single attribute
> 
> I could help with a problem I haven't been confronted with 
> until now. I am converting SGML into well-formed XML, then 
> using XSLT to restructure/re-tag the XML to a different DTD.
> 
> I need to convert each value of single attribute to an XML structure. 
> I'm not really sure where to start. I'm using XSL 1.0. I 
> started with a for-each for the attribute FAULTS itself, but 
> that's not the result I need. I basically need to traverse 
> through each value of FAULTS
> 
> Here is my input element:
> 
> <FAULT-REF FAULTS="PF01 PF02 PF03 PF04 PF05 PF06 PF07 PF08 
> PF09 PF10 PF11">
> 
> I need transfrom each value of "FAULTS" (PF01, PF02, etc)  into this:
> 
> 
> <statemanipulation>
>     <variableref name="PF01"/>
>         <fault fault-code="PF01" fault-state="ok"/> 
> </statemanipulation> <statemanipulation>
>     <variableref name="PF02"/>
>         <fault fault-code="PF02" fault-state="ok"/> 
> </statemanipulation> <statemanipulation>
>     <variableref name="PF03"/>
>         <fault fault-code="PF03" fault-state="ok"/> 
> </statemanipulation> ..
> ..
> ..
> etc.
> 
> 
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> This list has been a huge benefit to me. Thanks to the 
> contributors here, I've had many "AHA" moments and I want to 
> thank everyone for there assistance in the past.
> 
> Charles Flanders