[xsl] Re: Replacing values

[David Sinclair <dsinclair@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, ignore my last message - I realised that my problem was that I 
was selecting the whole language doc, not just the iso code.

I changed the value-of path to 
$languagesDoc/languages/language[current()=name]/iso-code and I now get 
what I expected.

Thanks,

David Sinclair.

David Sinclair wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a relative beginner, so forgive what is probably a very easy 
> question but....
>
> I am trying to write a stylesheet that will replace language 
> descriptions with their iso 639 code.  I have a doc containing the 
> language codes of the form:
>
> <languages>
> <language>
>   <name>English</name>
>   <iso-code>en</iso-code>
> </language>
>   ...
>   ...
> </languages>
>
> the source document contains <language> tags with text that matches 
> the name tag in the language document.  Here is my attempt:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
>   <xsl:param name="languagesDocFilename"/>
>   <xsl:variable name="languagesDoc" 
> select="document($languagesDocFilename)" />
>     <xsl:template match="language">
>       <language>
>           <xsl:value-of 
> select="$languagesDoc/languages/language[current()=name]"/>
>       </language>
>   </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>      <xsl:copy>
>              <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>      </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>   </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> This almost works, but the output contains language tags like this:
> ...
> <language>
> de
> German
> </language>
>
> when what I want is :
>
> <language>
> de
> </language>
>
> I guess this is because the template that matches on everything is 
> copying the German text, but havent been able to find a way to get it 
> to output only the iso code.
>
> David Sinclair.