Re: [xsl] Looping

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

At 2012-04-11 16:01 -0400, Nathan Tallman wrote:
> I'm a fairly new XSL user and am still figuring things out. Right now
> I'm having trouble looping through repeated elements.

You are not taking context into account.

> Here's my source XML snippet:
>
> <ead>
> ...
>     <archdesc>
>     ...
>         <did>
>         ...
>             <langmaterial encodinganalog="546">Collection material in
>                 <language encodinganalog="041$a"
> langcode="eng">English</language>,
>                 <language encodinganalog="041$a"
> langcode="yid">Yiddish</language>, and
>                 <language encodinganalog="041$a"
> langcode="rus">Russian</language>.
>             </langmaterial>
>
> Here's my XSL snippet:
>
> <xsl:if test="/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial">
>     <xsl:for-each select="/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial/language[1]">
>         <marc:datafield tag="041" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
>             <marc:subfield code="a">
>                 <xsl:value-of
> select="normalize-space(/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial/language[1]/@langcode)"
> />
>             </marc:subfield>
>         </marc:datafield>
>     </xsl:for-each>

In the above you are going to the top of the document for your 
<xsl:value-of> rather than addressing the attribute from the context 
of the <language> element.

So you want:

  <xsl:for-each select="/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial/language">
    <marc:datafield tab="041" ind=" " ind2=" ">
      <marc:subfield code="a">
        <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(@langcode)"/>
      </marc:subfield>
    </mark:datafield>
  </xsl:for-each>

... because at the point of the <xsl:value-of> your context node is 
the <language> element addressed in your <xsl:for-each>.  My example 
is using a relative XPath address from the context node.

> I've tried this:
>                            <xsl:if test="/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial">
>                               <xsl:for-each 
> select="/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial/language">
>                                  <marc:datafield tag="041" ind1=" " ind2=" ">
>                                     <marc:subfield code="a">
>                                        <xsl:value-of
> select="normalize-space(/ead/archdesc/did/langmaterial/language/@langcode)"
> />
>                                     </marc:subfield>
>                                  </marc:datafield>
>                               </xsl:for-each>
>                            </xsl:if>
> But it only repeats the first @langcode three times, instead of having
> three distinct outputs.

Yes, because you are addressing all language codes with your absolute 
address in your <xsl:value-of>.  The XSLT 1.0 processor is then 
giving you the value of the first one addressed.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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