Sort Using XSLT - xslt

I need to sort the below xml by
/parentList/employeesList/personalInfo/middleName
using XSLT. I'm unable to generate the format I'm expecting.The one with Middle name "John" should come up in the output xml. Can you someone help me on this. Below are my XML and XSL's
XML :
<parentList>
<employeesList>
<personalInfo>
<middleName>Mike</middleName>
<lastName>S</lastName>
</personalInfo>
<mailingAddress>
<postalCode>12345</postalCode>
<cityName>CoEmployee CityName</cityName>
<state>PA</state>
<addressLineText>CoEmployee Full Address</addressLineText>
</mailingAddress>
</employeesList>
<employeesList>
<personalInfo>
<middleName>John</middleName>
<lastName>G</lastName>
</personalInfo>
<mailingAddress>
<postalCode>12345</postalCode>
<cityName>CoEmployee CityName</cityName>
<state>PA</state>
<addressLineText>CoEmployee Full Address</addressLineText>
</mailingAddress>
</employeesList>
</parentList>
XSL:
<xsl:template match="parentList">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:sort select="/employeesList/personalInfo/middleName" order="ascending"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

You need to put the sort inside a for-each:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="parentList">
<xsl:for-each select="employeesList">
<xsl:sort select="personalInfo/middleName" order="ascending"/>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The problem is in the XPath expression that you are using in your select attribute. It's an absolute expression (starts with /) but there your root element is not employeesList.
When you match parentList, you apply templates to its children, which provide the context for the sort element. That means that a relative XPath expression in the select attribute of sort should be in the context of employeesList.
It should work if you simply change your template to this:
<xsl:template match="parentList">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:sort select="personalInfo/middleName" order="ascending"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

Related

XSLT 2.0 3.0 for-each context error when tokenizing attributes

Given this XML
<dmodule>
<content>
<warningsAndCautionsRef>
<warningRef id="w001" warningIdentNumber="warning-001">
</warningRef>
<warningRef id="w002" warningIdentNumber="warning-002">
</warningRef>
<cautionRef id="c001" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001">
</cautionRef>
<cautionRef id="c002" cautionIdentNumber="caution-002">
</cautionRef>
</warningsAndCautionsRef>
<faultReporting>
<preliminaryRqmts>
<reqSafety>
<safetyRqmts cautionRefs="c001 c002" warningRefs="w001 w002"/>
</reqSafety>
</preliminaryRqmts>
</faultReporting>
</content>
</dmodule>
I would like to tokenize the attributes #cautionRefs (and #warningRefs) and then find the cautionRef element that matches its #id to the tokenized value:
<xsl:template match="#cautionRefs">
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize(.,'\s')">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//*[#id=.]"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
but the apply-templates fails: Fatal error during transformation Leading '/' selects nothing: the context item is not a node. It works if I don't tokenize and use string functions instead but that is not desirable.
Desired result:
Tokenize #cautionRefs="c001 c002" (which has multiple parent elements)
So each value is passed to the <cautionRef>template that will retrieve the caution and warning statements, to be displayed in a PDF:
<xsl:apply-templates select="//*[#id='c001']"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//*[#id='c002']"/>
I tried using <xsl:key name="id" match="*" use="#id"/> with
<xsl:for-each select="key('id',tokenize(.,'\s'))">
but the for-each is blank.
The above apply-templates will match with this <cautionRef> template, which retrieves the caution and warning statements correctly. I just need help with the context of the #cautionRefs template:
<xsl:template match="cautionRef">
<xsl:variable name="IdentNumber" select="#cautionIdentNumber"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//cautionSpec[cautionIdent/#cautionIdentNumber=$IdentNumber]"/>
</xsl:template>
You could use a variable and use that for context:
<xsl:template match="#cautionRefs|#warningRefs">
<xsl:variable name="ctx" select="/"/>
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize(.,'\s')">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$ctx//*[#id=.]"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
but I would use a key like you hinted at (updated to include context based on comments)...
<xsl:key name="by_id" match="*[#id]" use="#id"/>
<xsl:variable name="root" select="/"/>
<xsl:template match="#cautionRefs|#warningRefs">
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize(.,'\s')">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('by_id',.,$root)"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Here's a full working example. NB it's best to have this level of detail in the actual question; i.e. a sample input file, the XSLT, and output, along with an example of what you want the output to look like.
Input:
<test>
<safetyRqmts cautionRefs="c001 c002" warningRefs="w001"/>
<cautionRef id="c001" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001"/>
<cautionRef id="c002" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001"/>
</test>
Stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="*|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:key name="by_id" match="*[#id]" use="#id"/>
<xsl:template match="#cautionRefs|#warningRefs">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('by_id', tokenize(.))"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<test>
<safetyRqmts><cautionRef id="c001" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001"/><cautionRef id="c002" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001"/></safetyRqmts>
<cautionRef id="c001" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001"/>
<cautionRef id="c002" cautionIdentNumber="caution-001"/>
</test>

replace namespace prefix and add attributes using XSLT

suppose I have following XML as source:
<ns0:msg xmlns:ns0="namespace0">
<ns0:hdr a_lot_of_attrs="value">
some nodes...
</ns0:hdr>
<ns0:body>
<ns0:data a_lot_of_attrs="value">
<ns1:purchase_order xmlns:ns1="namespace1">some nodes...</ns1:purchase_order>
</ns0:data>
</ns0:body>
</ns0:msg>
And I need following XML as the result:
<a:msg xmlns:a="namespace0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<a:hdr a_lot_of_attrs="value">
some nodes...
</a:hdr>
<a:body>
<a:data a_lot_of_attrs="value">
<b:purchase_order
xsi:schemaLocation="filelocation"
xmlns:b="namespace1"
xmlns:c="namespace2">some nodes...</b:purchase_order>
</a:data>
</a:body>
</a:msg>
Basically I need just to replace the namespace prefix ns0 into a and ns1 into b. Further more, the root element <a:msg> as well as the <b:purchase_order> need to be added by some additional attributes.
My attemp is by using following XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ns0="namespace0"
xmlns:ns1="namespace1"
xmlns:a="namespace0"
xmlns:b="namespace1"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
exclude-result-prefixes="ns0 ns1">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<a:msg xmlns:msg="namespace1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="ns0:msg/*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</a:msg>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/ns0:msg/ns0:body/ns0:data/ns1:purchase_order">
<b:purchase_order xsi:schemaLocation="filelocation" xmlns:c="namespace2">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</b:purchase_order>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ns0:*">
<xsl:element name="a:{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* | node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="ns1:*">
<xsl:element name="b:{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* | node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It works fine so far, except the node <purchase_order> has been populated 2 times:
<a:msg xmlns:a="namespace0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<a:hdr a_lot_of_attrs="value">
some nodes...
</a:hdr>
<a:body>
<a:data a_lot_of_attrs="value">
<b:purchase_order xmlns:b="namespace1" xmlns:c="namespace2" xsi:schemaLocation="filelocation">
<ns1:purchase_order xmlns:ns0="namespace0" xmlns:ns1="namespace1">some nodes...</ns1:purchase_order>
</b:purchase_order>
</a:data>
</a:body>
</a:msg>
I tried several times by tweaking the second <xsl:template> but could not get it right. Would someone pls advise where I get wrong here and how can I get this done?
Thanks a lot.
You current template that matches ns1:purchase_order contains an xsl:copy as well as the creation of the new b:purchase_order. Therefore you are copying the old node as well as creating a new one.
You can remove the xsl:copy from the template, like so:
<xsl:template match="ns1:purchase_order">
<b:purchase_order xsi:schemaLocation="filelocation" xmlns:c="namespace2">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</b:purchase_order>
</xsl:template>
Note that you don't necessarily have to specify the full path in the template match. You would only really need to do this if you had a second ns1:purchase_order in the XML, at a different location, that you didn't want to match.

xsl transformation to sort output at the end of traversal

what is the actual best way to transform this
<root>
<data/>
<data/>
</root>
into this:
<data1/>
<data1/>
<data2/>
<data2/>
Somehow the way xslt engine works let me think it can only produce this:
<data1/>
<data2/>
<data1/>
<data2/>
which is produced by this simple sheet:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="data">
<xsl:element name="data1"/>
<xsl:element name="data2"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
is it possible to do some kind of reordering at the end of transformation (without using a second application) ?
You have to use two separate templates to create the data1 and data2 elements. Then you can apply these templates from a template matching the root node, for example. The mode attribute of xsl:template is also useful in this case:
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//data" mode="data1"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//data" mode="data2"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="data" mode="data1">
<xsl:element name="data1"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="data" mode="data2">
<xsl:element name="data2"/>
</xsl:template>
If you only want to add elements like in your example stylesheet but in different order you can do it somewhat like this.
<xsl:template match="/">
<!-- adding data1 for every data tag-->
<xsl:for-each select="//data" >
<xsl:element name="data1"/>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- adding data2 for every data tag-->
<xsl:for-each select="//data" >
<xsl:element name="data2"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

Replace all instances of a string in XML with ****

I have a XSL that needs to filter out specific data found in the XML.
Somewhere in my XML there will be a node like:
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" extension="9494949494949" />
The XSL I have below deletes the extension node and adds a nullFlavor="MSK" to the node.
What I need to do now, is take the value from the extension node, and search the entire XML document for that value, and replace it with **.
But I'm not sure how to take the extension attribute, and find all instances of that value in the XML (they could be burried in text and inside attributes) and turn them into ** (4 *).
The example below is just an example. I cannot hard code the XSL to look at specific nodes, it needs to look through all text / attribute text in the xml (reason for this is there are 5+ different versions of XML that this will be applied to).
I need to find the Extension in the node, then replace (delete really) that value from the rest of the XML. I'm looking for a 1 solution fits all messages, so a global search->wipe of the Extension value.
Example:
<identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" extension="9494949494949" displayable="true" />
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>9494949494949</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="9494949494949 should be stars"/>
Should be (The below XSLT already masks the extension in the node with the matching OID).
<identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" nullFlavor="MSK" displayable="true" />
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>****</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="**** should be stars"/>
Any help would be appreciated.
I am able to use XSL 2.0
I have the current XSL.IT works fine. It matches any tag where the root is '2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1', kills all attributes and adds a nullFlavor="MSK". However, this will not search the entire XML for that same #.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="attrToKeep" select="'root'" />
<xsl:template match="* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="../#root = '2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1'">
<xsl:copy-of select=".[contains($attrToKeep, name())]" />
<xsl:attribute name="nullFlavor">MSK</xsl:attribute>
<!-- Need some way to use the value found in this node and hide the extension -->
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Try using a variable to hold the value of the text to be replaced. Like this:
<xsl:variable
name="rootVar"
select="//*[#root = '2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1']/#extension" />
And then you should just be able to use the replace function to replace them.
<xsl:template match="'//#*' | text()">
<xsl:sequence select="replace(., $rootVar, '****')"/>
</xsl:template>
The XSLT 2.0 stylesheet
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:param name="replacement" select="'****'"/>
<xsl:param name="new" select="'MKS'"/>
<xsl:template match="#* | node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* | node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* , node()">
<xsl:with-param name="to-be-replaced" select="id/#extension" tunnel="yes"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson//text()">
<xsl:param name="to-be-replaced" tunnel="yes"/>
<xsl:sequence select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson//#*">
<xsl:param name="to-be-replaced" tunnel="yes"/>
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}" select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson/id">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="nullFlavor" select="$new"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="identifiedPerson/id/#extension"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
transforms
<identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" extension="9494949494949" displayable="true" />
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>9494949494949</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="9494949494949 should be stars"/>
</identifiedPerson>
with Saxon 9.4 into
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><identifiedPerson classCode="IDENT">
<id root="2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1" displayable="true" nullFlavor="MKS"/>
<addr use="PHYS">
<city>KAMLOOPS</city>
<country>CA</country>
<postalCode>V1B3C1</postalCode>
<state>BC</state>
<streetAddressLine>1A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>2A</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>****</streetAddressLine>
<streetAddressLine>4A</streetAddressLine>
</addr>
<note text="**** should be stars"/>
</identifiedPerson>
So for the sample it solves that problem I think. I am not sure whether there can be more context around that sample and whether you want to change values outside of the identifiedPerson element as well or don't want to change them (which above stylesheet does). If other elements also need to be changed consider to post longer input and wanted result samples to illustrate and also explain what determines the node where the value to be replaced is found.
[edit]
Based on your comment I adapted the stylesheet, it now has a parameter to pass in a id (e.g. 2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1), then it looks for an element of any name with a root attribute having that passed in id value and replaces the extension attribute value found in all attributes and all text nodes found in the document. Furthermore a nullFlavor attribute is added to the element with the id and its extension attribute is removed.
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:param name="root-id" select="'2.16.840.1.113883.3.51.1.1.6.1'"/>
<xsl:variable name="to-be-replaced" select="//*[#root = $root-id]/#extension"/>
<xsl:param name="replacement" select="'****'"/>
<xsl:param name="new" select="'MKS'"/>
<xsl:template match="comment() | processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#* , node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:sequence select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}" namespace="{namespace-uri()}" select="replace(., $to-be-replaced, $replacement)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[#root = $root-id]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="nullFlavor" select="$new"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[#root = $root-id]/#extension"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Doing a double-pass in XSL?

Is it possible to store the output of an XSL transformation in some sort of variable and then perform an additional transformation on the variable's contents? (All in one XSL file)
(XSLT-2.0 Preferred)
XSLT 2.0 Solution :
<xsl:variable name="firstPassResult">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/" mode="firstPass"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$firstPassResult" mode="secondPass"/>
</xsl:template>
The trick here, is to use mode="firstPassResult" for the first pass while all the templates for the sedond pass should have mode="secondPass".
Edit:
Example :
<root>
<a>Init</a>
</root>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:variable name="firstPassResult">
<xsl:apply-templates select="/" mode="firstPass"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/" mode="firstPass">
<test>
<firstPass>
<xsl:value-of select="root/a"/>
</firstPass>
</test>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$firstPassResult" mode="secondPass"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/" mode="secondPass">
<xsl:message terminate="no">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:message>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output :
[xslt] <test><firstPass>Init</firstPass></test>
So the first pass creates some elements with the content of root/a and the second one prints the created elements to std out. Hopefully this is enough to get you going.
Yes, with XSLT 2.0 it is easy. With XSLT 1.0 you can of course also use modes and store a temporary result in a variable the same way as in XSLT 2.0 but the variable is then a result tree fragment, to be able to process it further with apply-templates you need to use an extension function like exsl:node-set on the variable.