Re: [xsl] most efficient flat file listing to hierarchical

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

George Cristian Bina wrote:
> Abel,
>
> Your solution does not work correctly, on the sample input it gives:
>
> <dir name="cn"/>
> <dir name="cn"/>

Ah, forgot to mention, you are right. I cheated: I first "corrected" the 
list, but left it out of the solution...

Since it uses following-sibling[1] to check if a file/directory belongs 
to the same node, it can only work when the list is ordered in a certain 
way. Analyzing the input, I assumed directory order (like, output of 
dir, or ls) which is: directory first, then files, then subdirectories. 
I figured the OP had put the "cn" entry erroneously at the end, so I 
corrected it like this:

   <item>cn</item>
   <item>cn/test.xml</item>
   <item>en</item>
   <item>en/test.html</item>
   <item>en/test1.html</item>
   <item>en/resource</item>
   <item>en/resource/style</item>
   <item>en/resource/style/test.css</item>
   <item>favicon.ico</item>

In addition, it assumes that a dot in the name is a file, which is not 
ideal. It were better if a directory is considered a directory when it 
occurs more than once. Which still does not solve the favicon.ico, which 
can be either a directory or a file. I choose the latter for ease of 
implementation.

To make my solution working with any order of input, some adjustments 
must be made. I tried a few, and I am sure it can be done, but got a bit 
entangled while trying to keep the solution short and with pure match 
templates. No doubt I would end above my 12 lines ;-)

-- Abel