Re: [xsl] Hash / Translation Tables (the right way)

Subject: Re: [xsl] Hash / Translation Tables (the right way)
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:43:15 -0400
Except that my use of lower-case() earlier wouldn't work in XSLT 1. A common way to get lower-case in XSLT 1 is with the translate() function.

Please forgive my haste in my earlier answer.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

At 2011-09-25 18:40 -0400, I wrote:
At 2011-09-25 23:35 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:

Another approach is to have a document months.xml

<months>
<month name='January' abbr='jan' num='01'/>
<month name='February' abbr='feb' num='02'/>
  ...
</months>

then

document('months.xml')/months/month[@abbr=lower-case($mon)]/@num

(or instead of a separate document you can put the lookup table in a global variable in the stylesheet; but with XSLT 1.0 this relies on the node-set() function.)

It can also be done in XSLT 1.0 without extensions by putting the structure in a namespace at the top level of the stylesheet:


   <hank:months>
     <month name='January' abbr='jan' num='01'/>
     <month name='February' abbr='feb' num='02'/>
     ...
   </hank:months>

... and using the document() function:

document('')/*/hank:months/month[@abbr=lower-case($mon)]/@num

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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