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Re: Elements to attributes
- To: <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>, <peter at didm dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Elements to attributes
- From: "Alex Albu" <xsl at mailandnews dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:39:13 -0400
- References: <NDBBIBHNGKBHHJEECKMGKEAKCEAA.peter@didm.co.uk>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Like Michael Kay always says, think trees, not files. You want
to output a tree, not a bunch of tags.
> I want to transform a list of attributes (NMTOKENS) into
element. I.e. from:
> <foo N="PU US UK"/>
> to:
> <foo><St>PU</St><St>US</St><St>UK</St></foo>
>
> The following:
>
> [snip]
>
>
> Converts it to:
>
<foo><St>UK</St><St>US</St><St>PU&
lt;/St></
> foo>
>
>
> Please,
>
> 1. How can I replace < and < with < and > in the ouput.
In order to fix your style sheet you must generate elements
instead of strings.
<xsl:template match="foo">
<foo>
<!--
<xsl:variable name="st">
-->
<xsl:variable name="wlista" select="@N"/>
<xsl:call-template name="lists">
<xsl:with-param name="wlist" select="$wlista"/>
<xsl:with-param name="tag" select="'St'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<!--
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$st"/>
-->
</foo >
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="lists">
<xsl:param name="wlist"/>
<xsl:param name="tag"/>
<xsl:variable name="wlistb"
select="concat(normalize-space($wlist),' ')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$wlistb!=' '">
<xsl:variable name="first"
select="substring-before($wlistb,' ')"/>
<xsl:variable name="rest"
select="substring-after($wlistb,' ')"/>
<!-- this generates the nodes in the output tree -->
<!-- if the element name is not always St, use
<xsl:element> -->
<St><xsl:value-of select="$first"/></St>
<xsl:call-template name="lists">
<xsl:with-param name="wlist" select="$rest"/>
<xsl:with-param name="tag" select="$tag"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<!--
<xsl:value-of
select="concat('<',$tag,'>',$first,'</',$tag,'>')"/>
-->
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
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