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RE: Novice question: selecting an element based on an attribute id
- From: ohmson at netscape dot net (ohmson ampere)
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:46:43 -0500
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Novice question: selecting an element based on an attribute id
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
"Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I'm an novice user of XSLT but was tasked to transform an
>> incoming XML file into another format. So far so good but I
>> ran into a perplexing problem. Here's the short example of an
>> incoming XML file:
>>
>> <object>
>> <class name="TestF">
>> <field name="_str1" type="java.lang.String"/>
>> <field name="_str3" type="java.lang.String"/>
>> </class>
>> <String field="_str1" myId="28"><![CDATA[a test of
>> referencing.]]></String>
>> <String field="_str3" myIdRef="28"/>
>> </object>
>>
>> This needs to be transformed simply to
>>
>> </object>
>> <_str1><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str1>
>> <_str3><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str3>
>> </object>
>>
>> As you can see,
>
>I may be blind, but I can't see. Could you explain more clearly the
>relationship of your output to your input?
>
I apologize for the quick cut-n-paste and the opening tag should be <object>.
Anyway, the transformation is:
1. Look for elements in the source with the attribute "field" and use that as an element in the target. Hence, you see that
<String field="_str1" myId="28"><![CDATA[a test of referencing.]]></String>
becomes
<_str1><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str1>
2. If the element contains a reference instead, look for the data in the source instead of just using the reference. Hence,
<String field="_str3" myIdRef="28"/>
becomes
<_str3><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str3>
instead of
<_str3 myIdRef="28" />
I saw that one of the previous post actually address the problem pretty. Thanks to Jenni.
Cheers
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