RE: [xsl] Number of elements with a given attribute

[J L <jinlii@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, that fixed it.

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> From: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 07:17:43 +0000
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Number of elements with a given attribute
>
> When you do , you are selecting
> elements. No role element will ever match the pattern
> "verse[@part='beginning']". I'm not sure, but I suspect you want to change
> the select to select="role/verse".
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: J L [mailto:jinlii@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 06 January 2010 01:51
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: [xsl] Number of elements with a given attribute
>>
>>
>> I'm new to XSLT 2.0. I tried this example in Altova and
>> couldn't get the output below. I'm not sure if the input is
>> wrong or my xsl is incorrect. Thanks for your time!
>>
>>>
>>>   ...
>>>   ...
>>>   ...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> input xml:
>>
>>
>>         ...
>>         1
>>
>>
>>         continuation 2
>>
>>
>>         continuation 3
>>
>>
>>         end
>>         ...
>>
>>
>>         ...
>>         1
>>
>>
>>         continuation 2
>>
>>
>>         continuation 3
>>
>>
>>         end
>>         ...
>>
>>
>>
>> xsl:
>>
>>
>> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
>> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
>> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";>
>>
>>
>> group-starting-with="role/verse[empty(@part)] |
>> verse[@part='beginning']">
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:45:18 +0000
>>> Subject: RE: [xsl] Number of elements with a given attribute
>>>
>>>>
>>>> In a piece of theater, I have some verses that are split between
>>>> different roles.
>>>>
>>>> The other are tagged on the following model:
>>>>
>>>>    ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>   ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>> I wish to have the count of preceding parts of verse from the last
>>>> beginning part.
>>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> A classic case of two overlapping hierarchies running over
>> the same data.
>>> One of these hierarchies is represented directly in the XML tree
>>> structure, the other is represented indirectly. You want to
>> perform an
>>> operation on the "hidden" hierarchy, so it's best to invert the
>>> structure so the verse hierarchy becomes the primary one.
>> That is, you want:
>>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> which can be done like this:
>>>
>>>
>>> group-starting-with="verse[empty(@part)] |
>> verse[@part='beginning']">
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You now have each verse represented by a complete element,
>> broken into
>>> parts to show who speaks each part of the verse, and this makes it
>>> easy for example to number the parts of a verse as you have
>> asked for.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Michael Kay
>>> http://www.saxonica.com/
>>> http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
>>>
>>
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