Need to format the date as per the input xml file - xslt

Need to change the date format from 123121(mmddyy) to 12/31/2021(mm/dd/yyyy)
Input XML I'm having:
<section>
<Plans>
<Date>123121</Date>
</Plans>
</section>
<p>date: <keyword keyref="Cost:Date:date4"/></p>
XSL I have tried:
<xsl:template match="keyword[contains(#keyref, 'Cost:Date:date4')]">
<xsl:param name="section" as="element()" tunnel="yes">
<empty/>
</xsl:param>
<keyword keyref="Cost:Date:date4">
<xsl:call-template name="format_variable">
<xsl:with-param name="cur_keyref" select="#keyref"/>
<xsl:with-param name="cur_value"
select="$section//Plans/Date"/>
<xsl:with-param name="cur_format" select="'date4'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</keyword>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="format_variable">
<xsl:param name="cur_keyref" as="xs:string">MISSING</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="cur_value" as="xs:string">MISSING</xsl:param>
<xsl:param name="cur_format" as="xs:string">MISSING</xsl:param>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$cur_format = 'date4'">
<xsl:value-of select="format-dateTime($cur_value, '[M01]/[D01]/[Y0001]')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of
select="concat('MISSING_FORMAT_', $cur_keyref, '_', $cur_value, '_[', $cur_format, ']')"
/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
When I'm trying the above code its showing the below error:
Invalid dateTime value "123121" (Too short)
Please somebody help me out get the 12/31/2021(mm/dd/yyyy) value on the output.

You are trying to use the format-dateTime() function on something that is not a valid dateTime.
What can't you do simply:
<xsl:value-of select="replace(Date, '(.{2})(.{2})(.{2})', '$1/$2/20$3')"/>
Note that this is assuming all your dates will be in the 21st century. Otherwise you would need additional logic to identify the century.

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Sum value of output of template in Apache FOP

I am using Apache FOP to generate a PDF document, and to display a certain value I have to iterate over a number of nodes to determine a total price value, then sum that value. So far I have a function that iterates over an array and then retrieves the intended value, but the issue occurs when I try to sum the results.
<xsl:function name="foo:buildTotalValue">
<xsl:param name="items" />
<xsl:variable name="totals">
<xsl:for-each select="$items/charge">
<xsl:call-template name="getTotalPriceNode">
<xsl:with-param name="itemParam" select="." />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="sum(exsl:node-set($totals))" />
</xsl:function>
<xsl:template name="getTotalPriceNode">
<xsl:param name="itemParam" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$itemParam/Recurrance = 'OnceOff'">
<xsl:value-of select="$itemParam/TotalValue" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$itemParam/Recurrance = 'Monthly'">
<xsl:value-of select="$itemParam/TotalValue * $itemParam/Months"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="0" /></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
I'm hoping that when I pass in foo:buildTotalValue with entries like this:
<Charges>
<Charge>
<Recurrance>OnceOff</Recurrance>
<TotalValue>50.00</TotalValue>
</Charge>
<Charge>
<Recurrance>Monthly</Recurrance>
<TotalValue>10.00</TotalValue>
<Months>6</Months>
</Charge>
</Charges>
would return with the value 110.00, but instead I get the error:
Cannot convert string "50.0060.00" to double
I've tried adding a <value> or something in the templates and then using that as a selector for the exsl:node-set function but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
AFAICT, the problem with your function is that it builds a concatenated string of values returned by the called template, instead of a tree of nodes that can be converted into a node-set and summed.
Try changing:
<xsl:for-each select="$items/charge">
<xsl:call-template name="getTotalPriceNode">
<xsl:with-param name="itemParam" select="." />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
to:
<xsl:for-each select="$items/charge">
<total>
<xsl:call-template name="getTotalPriceNode">
<xsl:with-param name="itemParam" select="." />
</xsl:call-template>
</total>
</xsl:for-each>
and:
<xsl:value-of select="sum(exsl:node-set($totals))" />
to:
<xsl:value-of select="sum(exsl:node-set($totals)/total)" />
Untested, because (see comment to your question).
I ended up using the suggestion from Martin from the comment - the xpath 2+ expression along the line of:
sum(Charge[Recurrance = 'OnceOff']/TotalValue | Charge[Recurrance = 'Monthly']/(TotalValue * Months))
which was able to achieve what I needed without the use of functions / templates / node-set (And in a lot less code)

extract csv content from an xml tag

i have a source xml as below
<rest-adapter-response>
<metadata>
<status>success</status>
</metadata>
<status-line>
<code>200</code>
<reason>OK</reason>
</status-line>
<header-lines>
<Cache-Control>private, max-age=0</Cache-Control>
<Transfer-Encoding>chunked</Transfer-Encoding>
<Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
<Expires>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 08:51:55 GMT</Expires>
<Last-Modified>Fri, 10 May 2019 08:51:55 GMT</Last-Modified>
<Server>Microsoft-IIS/10.0</Server>
<X-SharePointHealthScore>1</X-SharePointHealthScore>
<X-SP-SERVERSTATE>ReadOnly=0</X-SP-SERVERSTATE>
<DATASERVICEVERSION>3.0</DATASERVICEVERSION>
<X-Download-Options>noopen</X-Download-Options>
<Content-Disposition>attachment</Content-Disposition>
<SPClientServiceRequestDuration>224</SPClientServiceRequestDuration>
<X-AspNet-Version>4.0.30319</X-AspNet-Version>
<SPRequestGuid>de31db9e-70cb-8000-7fba-6c3e85d9c810</SPRequestGuid>
<request-id>de31db9e-70cb-8000-7fba-6c3e85d9c810</request-id>
<MS-CV>ntsx3stwAIB/umw+hdnIEA.0</MS-CV>
<Strict-Transport-Security>max-age=31536000</Strict-Transport-Security>
<X-FRAME-OPTIONS>SAMEORIGIN</X-FRAME-OPTIONS>
<X-Powered-By>ASP.NET</X-Powered-By>
<MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices>16.0.0.8824</MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices>
<X-Content-Type-Options>nosniff</X-Content-Type-Options>
<X-MS-InvokeApp>1; RequireReadOnly</X-MS-InvokeApp>
<P3P>CP="ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI"</P3P>
<Date>Fri, 10 May 2019 08:51:55 GMT</Date>
</header-lines>
<message-body>
<non-xml-data-response>COA,COA Acct Desc,Acct Prefix,Revaluation Acct,Mapping Changes - Additions( A ) Deletions ( D ) Changes ( C ),MJE,OIM Recon,Comments for difference:10000274,"Citibank, Operating, USD, 31165975",1000,10009999,A,,X,10000374,"Citibank, Clearing, USD, 31165975",1000,10009999,A,,X,10006604,"HSBC, Operating, SAR, SA0345000000003179660002",1000,10009999,A,,X,10006605,"Citibank, Operating, ZAR, 0202099009",1000,10009999,A,,X,123,,,456,,,,</non-xml-data-response>
</message-body>
</rest-adapter-response>
above XML is the response of a share point web service which tried to read a csv file and gave a response like this. as you can see in the above response xml , csv data did come but inside one xmltag called <message-body> , and also lost the new line after every row format!!
now i need to recreate the csv !!. and the worst part is , in the tool where i receive this format i have capability to write xslt and xml ! no hosting language code or libraries could be used.
also only xslt 1.0.
there is a question like this
question on creating csv from xml , but this is bit different from my requirement . am just learning xslt and xpath , can any one help me in this ?
below is the requested output :
click here to view the csv format
If one makes the assumption that the header row is terminated by a colon and that there are 7 values in each data row*, then it's possible to use the following stylesheet:
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/rest-adapter-response">
<xsl:variable name="csv" select="message-body/non-xml-data-response" />
<!-- header -->
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($csv, ':')" />
<xsl:text>:
</xsl:text>
<!-- data -->
<xsl:call-template name="restore-csv">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($csv, ':')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="restore-csv">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="i" select="1"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, ',')">
<xsl:variable name="value">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($text, '"')">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($text, '"'), '"')"/>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, ',')"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<!-- output -->
<xsl:value-of select="$value"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$i mod 7 = 0">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="restore-csv">
<xsl:with-param name="text">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($text, '"')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-after($text, '"'), '",')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($text, ',')"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i + 1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Applied to your input example, the result will be:
Result
COA,COA Acct Desc,Acct Prefix,Revaluation Acct,Mapping Changes - Additions( A ) Deletions ( D ) Changes ( C ),MJE,OIM Recon,Comments for difference:
10000274,"Citibank, Operating, USD, 31165975",1000,10009999,A,,X
10000374,"Citibank, Clearing, USD, 31165975",1000,10009999,A,,X
10006604,"HSBC, Operating, SAR, SA0345000000003179660002",1000,10009999,A,,X
10006605,"Citibank, Operating, ZAR, 0202099009",1000,10009999,A,,X
123,,,456,,,
This may need more work to handle possible escaped double-quotes within quoted values.
--
(*) The strange thing here is that there are 8 values in the header row, but only 7 in the data rows.

Generic XSLT to do XML to CSV - almost there, but stuck

I have gathered bits and pieces of this XSLT from these forums. I'm trying to put them altogether to create a single, generic XSLT that can be used to convert XML to CSV by specifying the path to the nodes that should be included in the CSV file.
I have three things that I still can't figure out after about 10 hours of messing with it.
I want to iterate over each column named in csv:columns. During each iteration, I need to extract and store the text() of the column. I think this is the way to iterate, but want to make sure:
<xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/csv:columns/*">
Once I have the text() from the column, I need to put that into the columnname variable in such a way that it works when it is used with getNodeValue.
I was unable to set columnname using variable. If I didn't hard-code the value (surrounded by apostrophes), I could not get it to work. This is why I have the following line in the code:
<xsl:variable name="columnname" select="'location/city'" />
I want to pass the result of getNodeValue into quotevalue so that the result is properly quoted.
The XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:csv="csv:csv" xpath-default-namespace="http://nowhere/" >
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:variable name="delimiter" select="','" />
<csv:columns>
<column>title</column>
<column>location/city</column>
</csv:columns>
<xsl:template match="job">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(#id, ',')"/>
<!-- #1 I WANT TO LOOP THROUGH ALL OF THE CSV COLUMNS HERE -->
<!-- #2 How do I put the text into the variable 'columnname' variable so that it works with getNodeValue? -->
<xsl:variable name="columnname" select="'location/city'" />
<xsl:variable name="vXpathExpression" select="$columnname"/>
<xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue">
<xsl:with-param name="pExpression" select="$vXpathExpression"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<!-- #3 After getNodeValue gets the value, I want to send that value into 'quotevalue' -->
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="getNodeValue">
<xsl:param name="pExpression"/>
<xsl:param name="pCurrentNode" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(contains($pExpression, '/'))">
<xsl:value-of select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue">
<xsl:with-param name="pExpression"
select="substring-after($pExpression, '/')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select=
"$pCurrentNode/*[name()=substring-before($pExpression, '/')]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="quotevalue">
<xsl:param name="value"/>
<xsl:choose>
<!-- Quote the value if required -->
<xsl:when test="contains($value, '"')">
<xsl:variable name="x" select="replace($value, '"', '""')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('"', $x, '"')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains($value, $delimiter)">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('"', $value, '"')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$value"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Sample XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<positionfeed
xmlns="http://nowhere/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
version="2006-04">
<job id="2830302">
<employer>Acme</employer>
<title>Manager</title>
<description>Full time</description>
<postingdate>2016-09-15T23:12:13Z</postingdate>
<location>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<state>California</state>
</location>
</job>
<job id="2830303">
<employer>Acme</employer>
<title>Clerk, evenings</title>
<description>Part time</description>
<postingdate>2016-09-15T23:12:13Z</postingdate>
<location>
<city>Albany</city>
<state>New York</state>
</location>
</job>
</positionfeed>
The current output using the XSLT I provided
2830302,Los Angeles
2830303,Albany
The output if the XSLT works as desired
2830302,Manager,Los Angeles
2830303,"Clerk, evenings",Albany
Solution (many thanks to Tim's help below)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:csv="csv:csv" xpath-default-namespace="http://www.job-search-engine.com/add-jobs/positionfeed-namespace/" >
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="utf-8" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<!-- Set the value of the delimiter character -->
<xsl:variable name="delimiter" select="','" />
<!-- The name of the node that contains the column values -->
<xsl:param name="containerNodeName" select="'job'"/>
<!-- All nodes that should be ignored during processing -->
<xsl:template match="source|feeddate"/>
<!-- The names of the nodes to be included in the CSV file -->
<xsl:variable name="columns" as="element()*">
<column header="Title">title</column>
<column header="Category">category</column>
<column header="Description">description</column>
<column header="PostingDate">postingdate</column>
<column header="URL">joburl</column>
<column header="City">location/city</column>
<column header="State">location/state</column>
</xsl:variable>
<!-- ************** DO NOT TOUCH BELOW **************** -->
<!-- ************** DO NOT TOUCH BELOW **************** -->
<!-- ************** DO NOT TOUCH BELOW **************** -->
<!-- ************** DO NOT TOUCH BELOW **************** -->
<!-- ************** DO NOT TOUCH BELOW **************** -->
<!-- Warn about unmatched nodes -->
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:message terminate="no">
<xsl:text>WARNING: Unmatched element: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:message>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Generate the column headers -->
<xsl:template match="//*[*[local-name()=$containerNodeName]]">
<xsl:value-of select="'Id'"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$columns/#header">
<xsl:variable name="colname" select="." />
<xsl:value-of select="$colname"/>
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">
<xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<!-- Generate the rows of column data -->
<xsl:template match="//*[local-name()=$containerNodeName]">
<!-- TODO: Handle attributes generically -->
<xsl:value-of select="#id"/>
<xsl:variable name="container" select="." />
<xsl:for-each select="$columns">
<xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/>
<xsl:variable name="vXpathExpression" select="."/>
<xsl:call-template name="getQuotedNodeValue">
<xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select="$container"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pExpression" select="$vXpathExpression"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="getQuotedNodeValue">
<xsl:param name="pExpression"/>
<xsl:param name="pCurrentNode" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(contains($pExpression, '/'))">
<xsl:variable name="result" select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]"/>
<xsl:call-template name="quotevalue">
<xsl:with-param name="value" select="$result"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="getQuotedNodeValue">
<xsl:with-param name="pExpression" select="substring-after($pExpression, '/')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select= "$pCurrentNode/*[name()=substring-before($pExpression, '/')]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="quotevalue">
<xsl:param name="value"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($value, '"')">
<!-- Quote the value and escape the double-quotes -->
<xsl:variable name="x" select="replace($value, '"', '""')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('"', $x, '"')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<!-- Quote the value -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('"', $value, '"')"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Sample data to demonstrate solution
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<positionfeed
xmlns="http://www.job-search-engine.com/add-jobs/positionfeed-namespace/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.job-search-engine.com/add-jobs/positionfeed-namespace/ http://www.job-search-engine.com/add-jobs/positionfeed.xsd"
version="2006-04">
<source>Casting360</source>
<feeddate>2016-11-11T21:48:34Z</feeddate><job id="1363612">
<employer>Casting360</employer>
<title>The Robert Irvine Show Is Seeking Guests</title>
<category>Reality TV</category>
<description>TV personality ROBERT IRVINE (Restaurant Impossible) is seeking guests looking for solutions to their unique problems to share their stories on his show!
Our next show is Thursday, September 22nd in LA. If you're not in LA we will provide your airfare, hotel, car service, and per diem.
Please note: WE ARE NOT LOOKING FOR RESUMES; THIS IS NOT AN ACTING GIG. We are looking for real people to share their stories!
*appearance fee (TBD)
If you or someone you know has a conflict that they need help resolving, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.
Please email tvgal.ri#gmail.com the following information:
Name
Phone number
Your story in 2-3 paragraphs
1-3 photos of yourself.</description>
<postingdate>2016-09-15T23:12:13Z</postingdate>
<joburl>http://casting360.com/lgj/8886644624?jobid=1363612&city=Los+Angeles&state=CA</joburl>
<location>
<nation>USA</nation>
<city>Los Angeles</city>
<state>California</state>
</location>
<jobsource>Casting360</jobsource>
</job><job id="1370302">
<employer>Casting360</employer>
<title>Photoshoot for Publication</title>
<category>Modeling</category>
<description>6 FEMALE Models are wanted for publication photoshoot.
If you're not in the NYC Vicinity (NY, Pa, Ct,) DO NOT REPLY because your response will be summarily ignored.
Chosen models will be given a 5 look photo shoot. The shoot will occur on location (outdoors) in highly public locations chosen both for it's convenience and scenery.
The 5 looks (outfits) will be pre-determined by our staff of items most outfits within a model's wardrobe.
THIS IS A TF (UNPAID) SHOOT. After the release of the magazine, the photos agreed upon from the shoot shall be given to the model (in digital format) for her to build her portfolio.
Chosen models will receive a 5 outfit photo shoot at no cost to them by a NY Fashion Photographer.As a result, chosen models not only receive a free photo shoot, but also become PUBLISHED MODELS featured in a magazine.
The model (Janeykay) centered in the photo attached (Please look at the attached photo) is a Casting360 member who not only received her photo shoot, not only is being featured in a magazine, but also made the cover becoming a Cover Model from her shoot with us.</description>
<postingdate>2016-10-03T00:34:43Z</postingdate>
<joburl>http://casting360.com/lgj/8886644624?jobid=1370302&city=New+York&state=NY</joburl>
<location>
<nation>USA</nation>
<city>New York</city>
<state>New York</state>
</location>
<jobsource>Casting360</jobsource>
</job><job id="1370962">
<employer>Casting360</employer>
<title>Actresses Needed for "Red Shore", Action Film</title>
<category>Acting</category>
<description>CASTING (non-union)
We are a New Independent company looking to shoot our first feature. We are currently looking to fill two Major roles.
Female/African American, Hispanic, Asian, Pacific Islander/ 5'5-5'10/ Age Late 30's-Early 40's.
Project description: A long standing feud between two best friends turned enemies escalates over a valuable Diamond on display in a New York City Museum. With the stakes high they each seek the help of both friends and strangers to settle their feud once and for all.
Please note this is a non-paid project.
Fight training will be provided for free.
Please email including age and height in your e-mail.
Those selected will be invited to our audition.</description>
<postingdate>2016-10-03T14:18:20Z</postingdate>
<joburl>http://casting360.com/lgj/8886644624?jobid=1370962&city=New+York&state=NY</joburl>
<location>
<nation>USA</nation>
<city>New York</city>
<state>New York</state>
</location>
<jobsource>Casting360</jobsource>
</job>
</positionfeed>
As you are using XSLT 2.0, you could define your columns in a variable like so:
<xsl:variable name="columns" as="element()*">
<column>title</column>
<column>location/city</column>
</xsl:variable>
Then you can just iterate over them with a simple statement
<xsl:for-each select="$columns">
But the problem you may be having is that within this xsl:for-each you have changed context. You are no longer positioned on a job element, but the column element, and you don't want your expression to be relative to that. You really need to swap back to being on the job element, which you can do simply by setting a variable reference to the job element before the xsl:for-each and then using that as a parameter to the named template:
<xsl:template match="job">
<xsl:value-of select="#id"/>
<xsl:variable name="job" select="." />
<xsl:for-each select="$columns">
<xsl:value-of select="$delimiter"/>
<xsl:variable name="vXpathExpression" select="."/>
<xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue">
<xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select="$job"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pExpression" select="$vXpathExpression"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
As for quoting the result; instead of doing just xsl:value-of simply call the quote template with the value as a parameter
<xsl:when test="not(contains($pExpression, '/'))">
<xsl:call-template name="quotevalue">
<xsl:with-param name="value" select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
EDIT: If you want a header row of column names, you would have to match the parent of the job node, and then just output the values of the $column variable
<xsl:template match="*[job]">
<xsl:value-of select="$columns" separator="," />
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
Or maybe this if you didn't want the full path
<xsl:value-of select="$columns/(tokenize(., '/')[last()])" separator="," />
Or you could extend your columns variable to have the header text
<xsl:variable name="columns" as="element()*">
<column header="Title">title</column>
<column header="City">location/city</column>
</xsl:variable>
Then you would do this...
<xsl:value-of select="$columns/#header" separator="," />

XSLT tokenize nodeset

I'm trying to create a variable that stores the value of an input string (TypeInput) in init cap form. This new variable will be used in different places in my stylesheet. I created a template that I call to convert the input string to init cap form. However, when I run the stylesheet, the resulting variable TypeInputInitCap shows up as NodeSet(1) in the debugger and doesn't output text in my output. Any ideas why? See sample below.
<xsl:variable name="TypeInputInitCap">
<xsl:call-template name="ConvertToInitCapString">
<xsl:with-param name="str" select="$TypeInput"></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template name="ConvertToInitCapString">
<xsl:param name="str"></xsl:param>
<!-- Extract each component of the name delimited by . -->
<xsl:variable name="TokenNodeSet">
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($str, '.')">
<!-- Init cap each component -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat(upper-case(substring(.,1,1)), lower-case(substring(.,2)))"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="$TokenNodeSet">
<xsl:value-of select="."></xsl:value-of>
<xsl:if test="not(last())">
<xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
I think that the problem is that the $TokenNodeSet variable contains just a single string, and so the second for-each just loops once.
What about doing this instead:
<xsl:template name="ConvertToInitCapString">
<xsl:param name="str"></xsl:param>
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($str, '\.')">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(upper-case(substring(.,1,1)), lower-case(substring(.,2)))"/>
<xsl:if test="not(last())">
<xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
EDIT
Fixed the tokenize() call above as suggested by LarsH in the comments
I would replace
<xsl:variable name="TokenNodeSet">
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($str, '.')">
<!-- Init cap each component -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat(upper-case(substring(.,1,1)), lower-case(substring(.,2)))"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
with
<xsl:variable name="TokenNodeSet" select="for $token in tokenize($str, '\.') return concat(upper-case(substring($token,1,1)), lower-case(substring($token,2)))" />
or better yet with
<xsl:variable name="TokenNodeSet" as="xs:string*" select="for $token in tokenize($str, '\.') return concat(upper-case(substring($token,1,1)), lower-case(substring($token,2)))" />
or finally as it is XSLT 2.0 where there are no nodesets I would rename the variable as e.g.
<xsl:variable name="TokenSequence" as="xs:string*" select="for $token in tokenize($str, '\.') return concat(upper-case(substring($token,1,1)), lower-case(substring($token,2)))" />
Thanks all for your help. The second part in my template was not necessary, so I'm now using this version, which works. It re-adds a '.' character between the tokens. (I didn't use the short version suggested in this thread because I will end up with an extra dot at the end if concatenated.):
<xsl:template name="ConvertToInitCapString">
<xsl:param name="str" select="."></xsl:param>
<!-- Extract each component of the name delimited by . -->
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($str, '\.')">
<!-- Init cap each component -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat(upper-case(substring(.,1,1)), lower-case(substring(.,2)))"></xsl:value-of>
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">
<xsl:value-of select="'.'"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Test param value type in XSL

I am getting this from LibXSLT:
XSLTProcessor::transformToXml(): Invalid type
XSLTProcessor::transformToXml(): xmlXPathCompiledEval: 1 objects left on the stack.
I am passing a param which can either have a string value or a nodeset. I am trying to test whether it contains a certain substring and in that case assign that value to another parameter.
The calling template:
<xsl:call-template name="img">
<xsl:with-param name="upload" select="'url.com/image.jpg'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="w" select="200"/>
<xsl:with-param name="h" select="200"/>
</xsl:call-template>
The called template:
<xsl:template name="img" match="*" mode="w">
<xsl:param name="upload" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="JITexternal">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="
not($upload/meta) and (contains($upload, '.jpg')
or
contains($upload, '.png'))
">
<xsl:value-of select="$upload"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="0"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:param>
</xsl:template>
While I am not sure what is tripping LibXSLT, I think is that fact that when I run those tests and the value is a string it throws the type error above.
But most importantly, is there a good way to test the type of a param's value?
UPDATE: the full XSL script on GitHub
While not exactly type checking, I found that converting the result tree fragment to a string() before running my test did prevent LibXSLT to bomb out:
<xsl:param name="JITexternal">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with(string($upload), 'http://')">
<xsl:value-of select="$upload"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="0"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:param>