XSLT to get parent of node with a particular value - xslt

What is the XSLT to get a parent node based on the value of the child?
My xml:
<cast>
<character>
<name>Bugs</name>
<id>1</id>
</character>
<character>
<name>Daffy</name>
<id>2</id>
</character>
I have tried this:
<xsl:template match="/cast/character/id">
<xsl:if test="text()=1">
<xsl:apply-templates select="../self" mode='copier'/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode='copier'>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
But this outputs the text of every node in the document.
EDIT: I have to output XML here, I'm planning to extend this to XML generation

Just use:
<xsl:apply-templates select="/*/character[id=1]"/>
or, if the wanted node should just be copied with no further processing:
<xsl:copy-of select="/*/character[id=1]"/>

I believe you're printing everything because the processor starts matching at the root and the only template you specify is for id elements, so things get copied by default. Try this:
<stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<output method="text" />
<template match="/">
<apply-templates select="//id" />
</template>
<template match="id">
<if test="text()='1'">
<value-of select=".." />
</if>
</template>
</stylesheet>
Or if you just want the character name, you could replace the select attribute value in the value-of element with "../name".

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/cast/character">
<xsl:if test="id=1">
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Not able to add a comment. Hence put it here

Related

Add mandatory nodes with XSLT

I am facing an xslt/xpath problem and hope someone could help, in a few words here is what I try to achieve.
I have to transform an XML document where some nodes may be missing, these missing nodes are mandatory in the final result. I have the set of mandatory node names available in an xsl:param.
The base document is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="TRANSFORM.xslt"?>
<BEGIN>
<CLIENT>
<NUMBER>0021732561</NUMBER>
<NAME1>John</NAME1>
<NAME2>Connor</NAME2>
</CLIENT>
<PRODUCTS>
<PRODUCT_ID>12</PRODUCT_ID>
<DESCRIPTION>blah blah</DESCRIPTION>
</PRODUCTS>
<PRODUCTS>
<PRODUCT_ID>13</PRODUCT_ID>
<DESCRIPTION>description ...</DESCRIPTION>
</PRODUCTS>
<OPTIONS>
<OPTION_ID>1</OPTION_ID>
<DESCRIPTION>blah blah blah ...</DESCRIPTION>
</OPTIONS>
<PROMOTIONS>
<PROMOTION_ID>1</PROMOTION_ID>
<DESCRIPTION>blah blah blah ...</DESCRIPTION>
</PROMOTIONS>
</BEGIN>
Here is the stylesheet so far:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="mandatoryNodes" as="xs:string*" select=" 'PRODUCTS', 'OPTIONS', 'PROMOTIONS' "/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="BEGIN">
<xsl:element name="BEGIN">
<xsl:for-each select="$mandatoryNodes">
<!-- If there is no node with this name -->
<xsl:if test="count(*[name() = 'current()']) = 0">
<xsl:element name="{current()}" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I tried the transformation in XML Spy, the xsl:iftest failed saying that 'current item is PRODUCTS of type xs:string.
I've tried the same xsl:if outside of a for-each and it seems to work ... what am I missing ?
Inside of <xsl:for-each select="$mandatoryNodes"> the context item is a string but you want to access the primary input document and its nodes so you need to store that document or the template's context node in a variable and use that e.g.
<xsl:template match="BEGIN">
<xsl:variable name="this" select="."/>
<xsl:element name="BEGIN">
<xsl:for-each select="$mandatoryNodes">
<!-- If there is no child node of `BEGIN` with this name -->
<xsl:if test="count($this/*[name() = current()]) = 0">
<xsl:element name="{current()}" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

XPath Predicate "is parent the current node?"

I have a node set and I'd like to use a predicate to select from it only those nodes which have a template's current node as their parent.
I'm using XSL 1.0 and msxsl.
In the following non-working code, the predicate [parent::current()] does not work as I want it to as current() is not a valid NodeTest:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:variable name="set" select="//node[#attr1 = 'bbb']"/>
<xsl:template name="TemplateA">
<xsl:for-each select="$set[parent::current()]">
<result-node>
<xsl:value-of select="#value"/>
<xsl:text>A</xsl:text>
</result-node>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="TemplateB">
<xsl:for-each select="$set[parent::current()]">
<result-node>
<xsl:value-of select="#value"/>
<xsl:text>B</xsl:text>
</result-node>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/body">
<result>
<xsl:for-each select="parentNode">
<xsl:call-template name="TemplateA" />
<xsl:call-template name="TemplateB" />
</xsl:for-each>
</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
Here is a sample XML to feed the above:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<body>
<parentNode>
<node attr1="aaa" value="1" />
<node attr1="bbb" value="2" />
</parentNode>
<parentNode>
<node attr1="aaa" value="3" />
<node attr1="bbb" value="4" />
</parentNode>
</body>
Here is the desired output:
<result>
<result-node>2A</result-node>
<result-node>2B</result-node>
<result-node>4A</result-node>
<result-node>4B</result-node>
</result>
The above example can also be found here: http://xsltransform.net/jyH9rMg
The way to compare nodes for identity in XSLT 1.0 is to use generate-id():
<xsl:for-each select="$set[generate-id(..) = generate-id(current())]">
.. is a shorthand for parent::node() and refers to the parent of the context node (the node being tested by this execution of the predicate).

Filemaker xml output via xslt with column names

I am new to xslt programming and xlm. I have created the code below this works fine, except that instead variable names for each column, it just shows "colno" How do I get the column names into the output?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fmp="http://www.filemaker.com/fmpxmlresult"
exclude-result-prefixes="fmp"
>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="kMetaData" select="fmp:METADATA/fmp:FIELD"/>
<xsl:variable name="colno"
select="count($kMetaData[following-sibling::fmp:FIELD/#NAME]) + 1" />
<xsl:template match="/fmp:FMPXMLRESULT">
<PERSON>
<xsl:apply-templates select="fmp:RESULTSET/fmp:ROW" />
</PERSON>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="fmp:ROW">
<ELEMENTS>
<xsl:apply-templates select="fmp:COL" />
</ELEMENTS>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="fmp:COL">
<xsl:element name="colno">
<xsl:value-of select="fmp:DATA" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It is hard to make some suggestion without input xml. But at first sight this <xsl:element name="colno"> says "output an element <colno>". I think you should use something like <xsl:element name="{xpath/to/columnName}">
edit:
According to your input xml your template for "COL" element should look like
<xsl:template match="COL">
<xsl:variable name="colPosition" select="position()" />
<!-- Prevent spaces in NAME attribute of FIELD element -->
<xsl:variable name="colName" select="translate($kMetaData[$colPosition]/#NAME, ' ', '_')" />
<xsl:element name="{$colName}">
<xsl:value-of select="DATA"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
Then the output looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PERSON>
<ELEMENTS>
<FIRSTNAME>Richard</FIRSTNAME>
<LASTNAME>Katz</LASTNAME>
<MIDDLENAME>David</MIDDLENAME>
<REQUESTDT>1/1/2001</REQUESTDT>
<salutation>Mr</salutation>
<Bargaining_Unit>CSEA (02,03,04)</Bargaining_Unit>
<Field_134>b</Field_134>
</ELEMENTS>
</PERSON>

XSLT multiple stylesheets

I have the following xml
<TopLevel>
<data m="R263">
<s ut="263firstrecord" lt="2013-02-16T09:21:40.393" />
<s ut="263secondrecord" lt="2013-02-16T09:21:40.393" />
</data>
<data m="R262">
<s ut="262firstrecord" lt="2013-02-16T09:21:40.393" />
<s ut="262secondrecord" lt="2013-02-16T09:21:40.393" />
</data>
</TopLevel>
I have some XSLT that does the call template but it's not itterating correctly.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="data">
<xsl:value-of select="#m" />
<xsl:variable name="vYourName" select="#m"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="#m='R262'">
<xsl:call-template name="R262"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="#m='R263'">
<xsl:call-template name="R263"/>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="R262">
<xsl:for-each select="/TopLevel/data/s">
Column1=<xsl:value-of select="#ut" />
Column2=<xsl:value-of select="#lt" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="R263">
<xsl:for-each select="/TopLevel/data/s">
Column1=<xsl:value-of select="#ut" />
Column2=<xsl:value-of select="#lt" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This gives me 8 records insead of the 4 (<s> level) records. I know it has to do with my iteration ... but I am not sure how to address this.
I am also aware of the apply stylesheets but I couldn't unravel that mystery either ... If someone can help me with XSLT that will only process everything from <TopLevel> to <\TopLevel> checking the value of m at the <data> level and applying the stylesheet at the <s> level for each <s> record I will be greateful beyond belief.
I don't know what output you want to produce, but I suspect you want to replace
<xsl:for-each select="/TopLevel/data/s">
by
<xsl:for-each select="s">
that is, you only want to process the "s" elements within the "data" you are currently processing, rather than selecting all the "s" elements in the whole document.
Why not do this using apply-templates?
<xsl:template match="data">
...
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="s[../#m='R262']">
...
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="s[../#m='R263']">
...
</xsl:template>
If you want to use match template and apply-templates you could do the following which gives you also a text output just like your stylesheet does. So this XSLT applied to your original source XML:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="data">
<xsl:value-of select="#m"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="s"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="s">
Column1=<xsl:value-of select="#ut"/>
Column2=<xsl:value-of select="#lt"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
gives you this output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
R263
Column1=263firstrecord
Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393
Column1=263secondrecord
Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393
R262
Column1=262firstrecord
Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393
Column1=262secondrecord
Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393
You basically only match on the s and give out the attributes "ut" and "lt". You can also output XML which would look better.
Using this XSLT:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<root>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</root>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="data">
<list>
<xsl:apply-templates select="s"/>
</list>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="s">
<xsl:element name="record">
<xsl:attribute name="m">
<xsl:value-of select="parent::data/#m"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<item>Column1=<xsl:value-of select="#ut"/></item>
<item>Column2=<xsl:value-of select="#lt"/></item>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
will give you this nice XML output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<list>
<record m="R263">
<item>Column1=263firstrecord</item>
<item>Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393</item>
</record>
<record m="R263">
<item>Column1=263secondrecord</item>
<item>Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393</item>
</record>
</list>
<list>
<record m="R262">
<item>Column1=262firstrecord</item>
<item>Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393</item>
</record>
<record m="R262">
<item>Column1=262secondrecord</item>
<item>Column2=2013-02-16T09:21:40.393</item>
</record>
</list>
You have to adapt the original XSLT a little bit to get a nice XML structure. Also when matching s you "climb" up to element data to get the R-numbers for your attribute values.
The template matching root you need for a proper XML root element. <list> you could also get rid off then you have <record> as child of <root>.

Insert XML element using XSLT in exisiting node

I have the following XML document:
<root someAttribute="someValue" />
Now I want to add a tag using XSLT, so that the document will look like this:
<root someAttribute="someValue">
<item>TEXT</item>
</root>
If I repeat to use the XSLT once more it should just add another item:
<root someAttribute="someValue">
<item>TEXT</item>
<item>TEXT</item>
</root>
It sound's so easy, does it not? Here is the best I got after trying a ton of things:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" >
<xsl:param name="message" />
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
<item>
<xsl:value-of select="$message" />
</item>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It does /nearly/ what I have asked for, except that it "forgets" the attributes of the root element. I have found a number of other solutions here on stackoverflow and elsewhere that have in common with my solution that they loose the attributes of the root element. How can I fix that?
You're currently transforming only child nodes, not attributes.
<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="node()|#*"/> <!-- now does attrs too -->
<item>
<xsl:value-of select="$message" />
</item>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>