Re: [xsl] xpath help?

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

At 2003-07-09 10:15 -0700, Paul Tomsic wrote:
> How do I get all possible sizes from the following XML
> using only one xPath given the criteria of
> ot[@id = 2 or @id  = 3] and ct[@id = 1]?
>
> so, I'd want size id's = (2,4)??

I hope the answer below helps ... not sure what aspect of XPath you were 
having difficulty to understand, so it is not easy to guide you in learning 
what "went wrong" in what you were trying to do.

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

T:\ftemp>type tomsic.xml
<hls>
  <hl>
    <ots>
       <ot id="2"/>
       <ot id="3"/>
    </ots>
    <cts>
       <ct id="1"/>
       <ct id="5"/>
    </cts>
    <sizes>
       <size id="2"/>
       <size id="4"/>
    </sizes>
  </hl>
  <hl>
    <ots>
       <ot id="2"/>
       <ot id="4"/>
    </ots>
    <cts>
       <ct id="2"/>
       <ct id="5"/>
    </cts>
    <sizes>
       <size id="3"/>
       <size id="8"/>
    </sizes>
  </hl>
</hls>

T:\ftemp>type tomsic.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each
    select="//size[ancestor::hl[ots/ot[@id = 2 or @id  = 3] and
                                cts/ct[@id = 1] ] ]">
    <xsl:if test="position()!=1">,</xsl:if>
    <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>saxon tomsic.xml tomsic.xsl
2,4
T:\ftemp>


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