Re: [xsl] Extracting data from external file

Subject: Re: [xsl] Extracting data from external file
From: Jingjun Long <longjingjun@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:02:49 +0800
By looking into the example data you provided, file_ext.xml is loaded
twice. Your current output is exactly reflect your logic in the XSLT
code.

There are many ways to get your expected output but what logic are you
going to put there.


2009/8/31 Joga Singh Rawat <jrawat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
> I want to extract data from external file i.e. file_ext.xml but not getting
> the required OUTPUT. Can anyone correct me about my mistake.
>
> dir/file_ext.xml
> <xxx>
>  <x a="file_1">
>    <y>first</y>
>  </x>
>  <x a="file _2">
>    <y>second</y>
>  </x>
> </xxx>
>
> b.xml
> <aaa>
>  <b n="file_1">
>  <b n="file_2">
> </aaa>
>
> XSLT Code
> <xsl:template match="b">
>  <xsl:variable name="a" select="substring-before(@n, '_')"/>
>  <xsl:variable name="file" select="document(concat('dir/', $a,
> '_ext.xml'))"/>
>   <found><xsl:value-of select="$file/xxx/x[@a = @n]/y"/></found>
> </xsl:template>
>
> OUTPUT
> <found>first second</found>
> <found>first second</found>
>
> Required OUTPUT
> <found>first</found>
> <found>fsecond</found>
>
> Thanks

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