Re: [xsl] Can a single XPath statement duplicate the functionality of this verbose <xsl:choose> statement?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2011-10-23 17:39 -0700, Mark wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> Yes, only one attribute to either element.
>
> You said:
> xsl:copy-of select="( ../Location[name(@*)=name(current()/@*)] ,
>                     ../Location/@denomination ,
>                     '0' )[1]"/>
>
> but I may have explained my needs incorrectly. Your statement works 
> on the first example below [uses @denomination] but returns nothing 
> for the second example; there it should return the value of the 
> <Locations @souvenir-sheet>, i.e., '1'.

So I see.  I failed to address the attributes after copying your 
original expression.

I think the expression below will work for you.

. . . . . . . Ken

~/t/ftemp $ cat mark.xml
<Stamps>
 <Stamp>
       <Formats souvenir-sheet="2895"/>
     <Location denomination="1"/>
</Stamp>

<Stamp>
      <Formats souvenir-sheet="2896"/>
     <Location denomination="5"/>
     <Location souvenir-sheet="1"/>
   </Stamp>
</Stamps>~/t/ftemp $ cat mark.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  version="2.0">
  <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="//Formats">
      <result>
      <xsl:copy-of select="( ../Location/@*[name(.)=name(current()/@*)] ,
                             ../Location/@denomination,
                             '0' )[1]"/>
      </result>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>~/t/ftemp $ xslt2 mark.xml mark.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result denomination="1"/>
<result souvenir-sheet="1"/>~/t/ftemp $




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