Re: [xsl] Testing if multiple nodes contain values - nevermind

[Jonathan Kart <jkart@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found something.

didn't realize you could concat multiple nodes together as part of a 
variable:

<xsl:variable name="all_publications">
	<xsl:copy-of select="*[starts-with(name(),'publications_')]"/>
</xsl:variable>

This is working, so i'm ok unless you have better ideas.

Thanks,
jonathan

On Aug 26, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Jonathan Kart wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sure i should be spending more time on this myself, but i'm in a 
> bit of a time crunch and i can't seem to find what i'm looking for.
>
> I'm trying to test to see if multiple nodes contain a value.
> xml is like:
>
> <publication_1>a publication</publication_1>
> <publication_2>a publication</publication_2>
> .
> .
> .
> <publication_n>a publication</publication_n>
>
> i want to do, in pseudocode
> <xsl:if test="any node which starts with publication_ has a value">
> 	do something
> </xsl:if>
>
> is it possible to concatenate string values of a nodeset together? (in 
> xsl 1.0)
> something like:
> <xsl:test select="concat(*[starts-with(name(),'publication_')]) !='' ">
>
>
> again, this may be simple.  sorry.  I wish i had more time to research 
> it on my own.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> jonathan
>
>
>
> On Aug 26, 2004, at 4:08 PM, cking wrote:
>
> > Hello Susan,
> >
> > <sw:stop>
> >   <word>the</word>
> >   <word>a</word>
> >   <word>an</word>
> > </sw:stop>
> > <xsl:variable name="stop-words" 
> > select="document('')/xsl:stylesheet/sw:stop/word"/>
> >
> > I didn't know this was possible? Selecting elements from the 
> > stylesheet by using document('')
> > Anyway, it didn't work for me... so I put the stop-words in a 
> > separate file and used
> > "document('stop-words.xml')/stop/word" instead; that worked.
> >
> > (I also corrected the "uppercase" variable: the last 4 chars are 
> > missing)
> >
> > Then, after some experimenting, I succeeded in sorting twice, with 
> > empty titles included,
> > simply by omitting [text()!=''] from your first for-each select. Like 
> > this:
> >
> >     <xsl:for-each select="//section-02/title"> <!-- removed 
> > [text()!=''] -->
> >      <xsl:sort select="concat(substring(substring-after(.,' '), 0 div 
> > boolean
> >      ($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current(), $uppercase, 
> > $lowercase),
> >      concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), ' '))])), 
> > substring(., 0 div not
> >      ($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current(), $uppercase, 
> > $lowercase),
> >      concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), ' '))])))"/>
> >
> >      <xsl:sort select="number(concat(substring(../arrival-date, 7,4),
> >      substring(../arrival-date, 1,2), substring(../arrival-date, 
> > 4,2)))" order="descending"/>
> >      <!-- added ../ -->
> >
> >      <tr>
> >       <td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="../doc-number"/></td>
> >       <td width="30%"><xsl:value-of select="../title" /></td>
> >       <td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="../isbn-issn"/></td>
> >       <td width="20%"><xsl:value-of select="../imprint"/></td>
> >       <td width="20%"><xsl:value-of select="../description"/></td>
> >       <td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="../arrival-date"/></td>
> >      </tr>
> >     </xsl:for-each>
> >
> > You were really close, I guess... I hope I didn't miss something, but 
> > I think it works now
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Anton Triest