Re: [xsl] Multiple xml trasformation

[Joerg Pietschmann <joerg.pietschmann@xxxxxx>]

"Jozef Palocko" <jpalocko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> 
> Hi, I have question: 
> I have many XML documents of the same format like this 
> <Entries> 
>     <Entry>...</Entry> 
>      <Entry>...</Entry> 
>     ... 
> </Entries>. 
> 
> I'm using muenchian method to select distinct entries from file and
> display 
> its count. 
> 
> And question is: 
> How can I count distinct entries from multiple xml files ? 
> Is some way how to merge these xml files to one source and then perform 
> tranformation or something else how solve this problem? 

Merging the files into an intermediate file or into avariable and
access the value using a node-set() extension function definitely
simplifies the task.

Another aproach might be building a union:

  <xsl:variable name="entries"
    select="document('doc1')/*/Entry|document('doc1')/*/Entry"/>

or if you have an XML document with the file names:

  <files>
    <file>doc1</file>
    <file>doc2</file>
  </files>

you can take advantage of the fact that the first argument to document
may be a node set:

  <xsl:variable name="entries" select="document(files/file)/*/Entry"/>

You should then be able to iterate over the node set an process only
unique entries:

  <xsl:for-each select="$entries">
    <xsl:if test=generate-id()=generate-id($entries[.=current()][1])>
      <!-- do something -->
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>

If you only want to count unique entries, use the code above to build
a string variable which contains a character for each unique entry:

  <xsl:variable name="entry-count">
    <xsl:for-each select="$entries">
      <xsl:if test=generate-id()=generate-id($entries[.=current()][1])>
       <xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
      </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:value-of select="string-length($entry-count)"/>

Competely untested.
As you already noted there is no elegant way to select unique entries because
neither the preceding axis nor keys work across documents.
Just the example using node-set:

  <xsl:variable name="entries">
    <xsl:for-each select="document(files/file)/*/Entry"/>
      <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>

  <xsl:value-of select="count(xx:node-set($entries)/Entry[not(.=preceding::Entry)])"/>

Also untested.
The xx prefix is processor specific, look into the manuals how to handle it.

HTH
J.Pietschmann

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