Re: [xsl] variable outside a for-each loop: second try

["Mathieu Malaterre" <mathieu.malaterre@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/20/07, Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> >
> > If I copy paste it I am getting:
> >
> > Error at xsl:value-of on line 21 of file:/tmp/dummy.xsl:
> >  Required type of second operand of '/' is node(); supplied value has
> > type xs:string
> > Transformation failed: Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.
> >
> > Where line 21 is:
> >
> > <xsl:value-of select="../preceding-sibling::row/entry[position() eq
> > $position][1]/normalize-space(string-join(para,' '))" />
> >
> > What does this mean ?
> >
>
> It means that line that the compiler is pointing you at is not the line
> where the error occurs, because the line that you show here does not
> have a string as the left-hand side of the / operator.
>
> Oh, sorry. I see now: this error seems to come from an XSLT 1.0
> processor. But you are using string-join in your original post. Which is
> a Xpath 2.0 function. What processor are you using? Or do you operate in
> backward compatibility mode?


$  java -jar /usr/share/Dart/Source/Server/saxon/saxon8.jar  -t
Saxon 8.0 from Saxonica
Java version 1.6.0_01
No source file name


When I tried your solution here is what I get:.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="2.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<!-- this goes on the root level of the stylesheet -->
  <xsl:template match="row">
    <entry ie="{(entry[1]/para[. != ''] |
preceding-sibling::row[entry[1]/para != ''][1])[1]}"
module="{entry[2]/para}" reference="{entry[3]/para}"
usage="{entry[4]/para}"/>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="//informaltable">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="row"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Gives:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<entry ie="Col1 A" module="Col2 A" reference="" usage=""/>
<entry ie="&#xA;   &#xA;     Col1 A&#xA;   &#xA;   &#xA;     Col2
A&#xA;   &#xA; " module="Col2 B" reference="" usage=""/>
<entry ie="&#xA;   &#xA;     Col1 A&#xA;   &#xA;   &#xA;     Col2
A&#xA;   &#xA; " module="Col2 C" reference="" usage=""/>
<entry ie="&#xA;   &#xA;     Col1 A&#xA;   &#xA;   &#xA;     Col2
A&#xA;   &#xA; " module="Col2 D" reference="" usage=""/>

on

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<informaltable>
 <row>
   <entry>
     <para>Col1 A</para>
   </entry>
   <entry>
     <para>Col2 A</para>
   </entry>
 </row>
 <row>
   <entry>
     <para/>
   </entry>
   <entry>
     <para>Col2 B</para>
   </entry>
 </row>
 <row>
   <entry>
     <para/>
   </entry>
   <entry>
     <para>Col2 C</para>
   </entry>
 </row>
 <row>
   <entry>
     <para>Col1 D</para>
   </entry>
   <entry>
     <para>Col2 D</para>
   </entry>
 </row>
</informaltable>

-- 
Mathieu