Re: [xsl] Joining xml documents on the fly

Subject: Re: [xsl] Joining xml documents on the fly
From: Joelle Tegwen <tegwe002@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:43:05 -0500
Ok, now I've got a new twist on the same type of data set.

Now I want to find all of the people in <project_staff_roles> who are listed more than, arbitrarily, 5 times.

I get somewhere around this:
<xsl:variable name="common"
select="$project_staff_roles/project_staff_role/@staff_id[count($project_staff_roles/project_staff_roles/@staff_id = .) > $common_count]"/> and of course this doesn't work.


I'm sorry, I'm just really struggling with the underlying concepts here. I think I'm trying to approach this from an SQL point of view and I'm just not able to re-frame my thought process correctly.

Thanks much again.
Joelle

Joelle Tegwen wrote:
Ok, I'm in totally over my head here. I'm hoping someone can help me out.

I've got 2 external (reference) documents I'm including into my stylesheet.

One is a list of staff. It looks like this (edited for brevity):

<people>
   <staff staff_id="123456789" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AberyBrian">
       <display_name>Brian H Abery</display_name>
   </staff>
   <staff staff_id="987654321" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AlbusDeb">
       <display_name>Deb Albus</display_name>
   </staff>
   <staff staff_id="456321789" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AltmanJason">
       <display_name>Jason R Altman</display_name>
   </staff>
</people>

And the other is the three way join between staff, projects and roles
<project_staff_roles>
<project_staff_role project_id="1" staff_id="123456789" role_id="staff">
<staff staff_id="123456789" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AberyBrian">
<display_name>Brian H Abery</display_name>
</staff>
</project_staff_role>
<project_staff_role project_id="1" staff_id="123456789" role_id="director">
<staff staff_id="123456789" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AberyBrian">
<display_name>Brian H Abery</display_name>
</staff>
</project_staff_role>
<project_staff_role project_id="2" staff_id="987654321" role_id="staff">
<staff staff_id="987654321" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AlbusDeb">
<display_name>Deb Albus</display_name>
</staff>
</project_staff_role>
</project_staff_roles>


I want to break this into two groups based on the current project_id.
So if I'm viewing project_id=1
I want two groups of people

Project Staff:
<people>
   <staff staff_id="123456789" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AberyBrian">
       <display_name>Brian H Abery</display_name>
   </staff>
</people>

Non-Project-Staff
<people>
   <staff staff_id="987654321" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AlbusDeb">
       <display_name>Deb Albus</display_name>
   </staff>
   <staff staff_id="456321789" alpha_key="A" sort_key="AltmanJason">
       <display_name>Jason R Altman</display_name>
   </staff>
</people>

I've got the following variables in my document:
<xsl:variable name="staff" select="document($ref_staff)/people"/>
<xsl:variable name="staff_roles" select="document($ref_project_staff_role)/project_staff_roles/project_staff_role[@role_id='staff']"/>


<xsl:variable name="project_staff" select="$staff_roles[@project_id=$[project_id]/staff"/>
<xsl:variable name="non_project_staff" select="?????"/>


How do I even go about thinking about this? I've tried googling it but I have no idea what to search on. I've tried various iterations of keys, etc but I just can't get it.

The final xslt that gives the desired output is:
<xsl:if test="count($project_staff) > 0">
<fieldset class="span-18 last col-wrap">
<legend class="quiet">
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor::project/associates/associate/title"/>
People</legend>
<xsl:call-template name="layout_3column">
<xsl:with-param name="objects" select="$project_staff"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</fieldset>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="count($non_project_staff) > 0">
<fieldset class="span-18 last col-wrap">
<legend class="quiet">All Other People</legend>
<div id="tabs">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each
select="$staff/staff/@alpha_key[generate-id()=generate-id(key('alpha', .))]">
<xsl:if test="count($non_project_staff[@alpha_key = current()]) > 0">
<xsl:call-template name="tab_link">
<xsl:with-param name="alpha_string" select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
<xsl:for-each
select="$staff/staff/@alpha_key[generate-id()=generate-id(key('alpha', .))]">
<xsl:if test="count($non_project_staff[@alpha_key = current()]) > 0">
<xsl:call-template name="tab_data">
<xsl:with-param name="alpha_string" select="."/>
<xsl:with-param name="objects"
select="$non_project_staff[@alpha_key = current()]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</div>
</fieldset>
</xsl:if>



I hope this is clear. Any help would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance.
Joelle

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