How would I match two separate numbers in an XML document? There are multiple <PgIndexElementInfo> elements in my XML document, each representing a different navigation element, each with a unique <ID>. Later in the document a <PageID> specifies a number that sometimes matches an <ID> used above. How could I go about matching the <PageID> to the <ID> specified above?
<Element>
<Content>
<PgIndexElementInfo>
<ElementData>
<Items>
<PgIndexElementItem>
<ID>1455917</ID>
</PgIndexElementItem>
</Items>
</ElementData>
</PgIndexElementInfo>
</Content>
</Element>
<Element>
<Content>
<CustomElementInfo>
<PageID>1455917</PageID>
</CustomElementInfo>
</Content>
</Element>
EDIT:
I added the solution below to my code. The xsl:apply-templates that is present is used to recreate the nested lists that are lost between HTML and XML. What I now need to do is match the PageID to the ID of a <PgIndexElementItem> and add a CSS class to the <ul> it is a part of. I hope that makes sense.
<xsl:key name="kIDByValue" match="ID" use="."/>
<xsl:template match="PageID[key('kIDByValue',.)]">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//PgIndexElementItem[not(contains(Description, '.'))]" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="PgIndexElementItem">
<li>
<xsl:value-of select="Title"/>
<xsl:variable name="prefix" select="concat(Description, '.')"/>
<xsl:variable name="childOptions"
select="../PgIndexElementItem[starts-with(Description, $prefix)
and not(contains(substring-after(Description, $prefix), '.'))]"/>
<xsl:if test="$childOptions">
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$childOptions" />
</ul>
</xsl:if>
</li>
</xsl:template>
The XSLT way for dealing with cross references is with keys.
Matching: A rule matching every PageID element that it has been referenced by an ID element.
<xsl:key name="kIDByValue" match="ID" use="."/>
<xsl:template match="PageID[key('kIDByValue',.)]">
<!-- Template content -->
</xsl:template>
Selecting: A expression selecting every PageID element with specific value.
<xsl:key name="kPageIDByValue" match="PageID" use="."/>
<xsl:template match="ID">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('kPageIDByValue',.)"/>
</xsl:template>
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Kindly help me to wrap the img.inline element with the following sibling text comma (if comma exists):
text <img id="1" class="inline" src="1.jpg"/> another text.
text <img id="2" class="inline" src="2.jpg"/>, another text.
Should be changed to:
text <img id="1" class="inline" src="1.jpg"/> another text.
text <span class="img-wrap"><img id="2" class="inline" src="2.jpg"/>,</span> another text.
Currently, my XSLT will wrap the img.inline element and add comma inside the span, now I want to remove the following comma.
text <span class="img-wrap"><img id="2" class="inline" src="2.jpg"/>,</span>
, <!--remove this extra comma--> another text.
My XSLT:
<xsl:template match="//img[#class='inline']">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with(following-sibling::text(), ',')">
<span class="img-wrap">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
</span>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:copy>
<!-- checking following-sibling::text() -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::text()" mode="commatext"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- here I want to match the following text, if comma, then remove it -->
<xsl:template match="the following comma" mode="commatext">
<!-- remove comma -->
</xsl:template>
Is my approach is correct? or is this something should be handled differently? pls suggest?
Currently you are copying the img and the embedding the span within that. Also, you do <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/> which will select child nodes of img (or which there are none). And for the attributes it will end add them to the span.
You don't actually need the xsl:choose here as you can add the condition to the match attribute.
<xsl:template match="//img[#class='inline'][starts-with(following-sibling::node()[1][self::text()], ',')]">
Note I have changed the condition as following-sibling::text() selects ALL text elements that follow the img node. You only want to get the node immediately after the img node, but only if it is a text node.
Also, trying to select the following text node with xsl:apply-templates is probably not the right approach, assuming you have a template that matches the parent node which selects all child nodes (not just img ones). I am assuming you were using the identity template here.
Anyway, try this XSLT instead
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="//img[#class='inline'][starts-with(following-sibling::node()[1][self::text()], ',')]">
<span class="img-wrap">
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
<xsl:text>,</xsl:text>
</span>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()[starts-with(., ',')][preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::img]/#class='inline']">
<xsl:value-of select="substring(., 2)" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I have elements with a certain number of child elements. The child elements look something like this:
<checker val="this" some="yuppi" here="there" what="nothing"/>
Some of these attributes act as a filter. I don't know which ones and how many in advance. I have to look that up in a different file that contains all the attributes used as a filter at that particular time. That file basically looks like this:
<someElem >
<f name="val" value="this"/>
<f name="other" value="that"/>
<f name="val" value="something"/>
</someElem>
<someElem >
<f name="val" value="this"/>
<f name="other" value="that"/>
<f name="some" value="yuppi"/>
</someElem>
So on a different occasion, with different source material, there may be more or less or different filter attributes.
I know which element in the look-up file to choose, because it has the same id as an element which is the parent element of the checker-elements. Basically, the parent elements of the checker-elements have a filter applied that filters out certain checker-elements.
What I ultimately want to achieve is this: I have an element which has lots of checker-elements as child elements and I only want to copy those checker elements into a new file that dont have any attributes listed in the look-up file, the filter file.
So in the example above, the checker element would not get copied into the new file because it has a val attribute and the corresponding element in the look-up file is the first one and it has an f-element whose name is val. That's enough for me to know that it should be disregared. The same would happen if the checker element had an attribute called other.
My current approach is something like this:
<xsl:for-each select="key('test', #id, $elemFile)">
<xsl:if test="#id = $curID">
<xsl:variable name="curElemID" select="#id"/>
<xsl:for-each select="node()"> <!-- these here are the checker-elements from the example. They are child nodes of another element that I am iterating over -->
<xsl:variable name="curElem" select="."/>
<xsl:for-each select="#*"> <!-- looking at each of the attributes of the checker-element -->
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$lookupfile//someElem[#id = $curElemID]//f/#name = local-name()"> <!-- check if the current checker-element has one of the attributes whose local-name is the same as the name-attribute value of the corresponding someElem element -->
<xsl:message>
<xsl:text>Hit </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$curElem/#id"/>
</xsl:message>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy-of select="$curElem"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
Right now, the elements get copied into the new file even if they have one of the attributes.
Whats the best way to code this?
I hope I was able to explain my problem...
Thanks in advance for tips and help!
EDIT
A hopefully clearer example.
The file with the checker elements:
<root>
<abc id="someId">
<checker val="this" test="testest" here="there" what="nothing"/>
<checker some="yuppi" here="there" />
<checker other="that"/>
</abc>
<abc id="someOtherId">
<checker val="this" some="yuppi" here="there" what="nothing"/>
<checker some="yuppi" here="there" what="nothing"/>
<checker attr="val""/>
</abc>
</root>
the look-up file:
<someElem id="someId"> <!-- filter that gets applied to the first abc element-->
<f name="val" value="this"/>
<f name="other" value="that"/>
<f name="val" value="something"/>
</someElem>
<someElem id="someOtherId"> <!-- filter that gets applied to the second abc element-->
<f name="other" value="that"/>
<f name="some" value="yuppi"/>
</someElem>
Expected output:
<new>
<abc id="someId">
<checker some="yuppi" here="there" />
</abc>
<abc id="someOtherId">
<checker attr="val""/>
</abc>
</new>
in the first abc element, the first checker element gets filtered out because in the someElem that has the same id as the abc element, the filters specified are val and other - the first checker element has an attribute called val.
The third checker element gets filtered out because it has an attribute called other
in the second abc element, the first two checker elements get filtered out because of the same rule. They have at least one attribute that is specified as a filter.
I believe you could use something like this:
XSLT 2.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:param name="lookupdoc" select="'path/to/your/other/file.xml'" />
<xsl:key name="f" match="f" use="../#id" />
<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="root">
<new>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</new>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="abc">
<xsl:variable name="x-names" select="key('f', #id, document($lookupdoc))/#name" />
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="checker[not(#*[name()=$x-names])]"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Note: both your files must be well-formed for this to work; currently neither of them is.
I've the below Sample XMLs.
XML1
<root num="1">
<abc></abc>
<cde></cde>
<def></def>
</root>
XML2
<root num="2">
<xyz></xyz>
<cft></cft>
<vft></vft>
</root>
XML3
<root num="3">
<dfg></dfg>
<mnb></mnb>
<gft></gft>
<root>
And i have 3 different XSLTs, each corresponding to XML.
I want to achieve the below.
Make a single XSLT and call the template based on the root number. something like the below.
<xsl:if test="root[#num="1"]>
<!--Call the template matching root 1-->
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="root[#num="2"]>
<!--Call the template matching root 2-->
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="root[#num="3"]>
<!--Call the template matching root 3-->
</xsl:if>
I just want to put all the XSLTs in a single XSLT, please let me know how can i do this.
Thanks
You can use element.
The element contains rules to apply when a specified node is matched.
The match attribute is used to associate the template with an XML element. The match attribute can also be used to define a template for a whole branch of the XML document (i.e. match="/" defines the whole document).
Note: is a top-level element.
Example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="cd">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="title"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="artist"/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
Title: <span style="color:#ff0000">
<xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
<br />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="artist">
Artist: <span style="color:#00ff00">
<xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
<br />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This was taken from http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_template.asp
I have a set of sequential nodes that must be enclosed into a new element. Example:
<root>
<c>cccc</c>
<a gr="g1">aaaa</a> <b gr="g1">1111</b>
<a gr="g2">bbbb</a> <b gr="g2">2222</b>
</root>
that must be enclosed by fold tags, resulting (after XSLT) in:
<root>
<c>cccc</c>
<fold><a gr="g1">aaaa</a> <b gr="g1">1111</b></fold>
<fold><a gr="g2">bbbb</a> <b gr="g2">2222</b></fold>
</root>
So, I have a "label for grouping" (#gr) but not imagine how to produce correct fold tags.
I am trying to use the clues of this question, or this other one... But I have a "label for grouping", so I understand that my solution not needs the use of key() function.
My non-general solution is:
<xsl:template match="/">
<root>
<xsl:copy-of select="root/c"/>
<fold><xsl:for-each select="//*[#gr='g1']">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each></fold>
<fold><xsl:for-each select="//*[#gr='g2']">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each></fold>
</root>
</xsl:template>
I need a general solution (!), looping by all #gr and coping (identity) all context that not have #gr... perhaps using identity transform.
Another (future) problem is to do this recursively, with fold of foldings.
In XSLT 1.0 the standard technique to handle this sort of thing is called Muenchian grouping, and involves the use of a key that defines how the nodes should be grouped and a trick using generate-id to extract just the first node in each group as a proxy for the group as a whole.
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:output indent="yes" />
<xsl:key name="elementsByGr" match="*[#gr]" use="#gr" />
<xsl:template match="#*|node()" name="identity">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- match the first element with each #gr value -->
<xsl:template match="*[#gr][generate-id() =
generate-id(key('elementsByGr', #gr)[1])]" priority="2">
<fold>
<xsl:for-each select="key('elementsByGr', #gr)">
<xsl:call-template name="identity" />
</xsl:for-each>
</fold>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ignore subsequent ones in template matching, they're handled within
the first element template -->
<xsl:template match="*[#gr]" priority="1" />
</xsl:stylesheet>
This achieves the grouping you're after, but just like your non-general solution it doesn't preserve the indentation and the whitespace text nodes between the a and b elements, i.e. it will give you
<root>
<c>cccc</c>
<fold>
<a gr="g1">aaaa</a>
<b gr="g1">1111</b>
</fold>
<fold>
<a gr="g2">bbbb</a>
<b gr="g2">2222</b>
</fold>
</root>
Note that if you were able to use XSLT 2.0 then the whole thing becomes one for-each-group:
<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:for-each-group select="*" group-adjacent="#gr">
<xsl:choose>
<!-- wrap each group in a fold -->
<xsl:when test="#gr">
<fold><xsl:copy-of select="current-group()" /></fold>
</xsl:when>
<!-- or just copy as-is for elements that don't have a #gr -->
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy-of select="current-group()" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:template>
I am quite new to xsl and functional programming, so I'll be grateful for help on this one:
I have a template that transforms some xml and provides an output. The problem is that there are many elements of type xs:date, all in different contexts, that must be localized. I use a concatenation of substrings of these xs:dates to produce a localized date pattern strings.
As you can guess this causes a lot of copy-paste "substring-this and substring-that". How can I write a template that will automatically transform all the elements of type xs:date to localized strings preserving all the context-aware transformations?
My xsl is something like this:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
...
<input value="{substring(/select/a/date 9,2)}.{substring(/select/a/date, 6,2)}.{substring(/select/a/date 1,4)}">
...
<!-- assume that following examples are also with substrings -->
<div><xsl:value-of select="different-path/to_date"/></div>
...
<table>
<tr><td><xsl:value-of select="path/to/another/date"/></td></tr>
</table>
<apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="something else">
<!-- more dates here -->
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I hope I managed to make my question clear =)
UPD: Here is an example of xml:
<REQUEST>
<header>
<... />
<ref>
<ref_date type="xs:date">1970-01-01</ref_date>
</ref>
</header>
<general>
<.../>
<info>
<.../>
<date type="xs:date">1970-01-01</date>
<ExpireDate type="xs:date">1970-01-01</ExpireDate>
<RealDate type="xs:date">1970-01-01</RealDate>
<templateDetails>template details</templateDetails>
<effectiveDate type="xs:date">1970-01-01</effectiveDate>
</info>
<party>
<.../>
<date type="xs:date">1970-01-01</date>
</party>
<!-- many other parts of such kind -->
</general>
</REQUEST>
As for the output, there are many different options. The main thing is that these values must be set as a value of different html objects, such as tables, input fields and so on. You can see an example in the xsl listing.
P.S. I'm using xsl 1.0.
If you did a schema-aware XSLT 2.0 transformation, you wouldn't need all those type='xs:date' attributes: defining it in the schema as a date would be enough. You could then match the attributes with
<xsl:template match="attribute(*, xs:date)">
What you could do is add a template to match any element which has an #type attribute of 'xs:date', and do you substring manipulation in there
<xsl:template match="*[#type='xs:date']">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(., '-', '/')" />
</xsl:template>
In this case I am just replacing the hyphens by slashes as an example.
Then, instead of using xsl:value-of....
<div><xsl:value-of select="different-path/to_date"/></div>
You could use xsl:apply-templates
<div><xsl:apply-templates select="different-path/to_date"/></div>
Consider this XSLT as an example
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="*[#type='xs:date']">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:value-of select="translate(., '-', '/')" />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
In this case, all this XSLT is doing is copying the XML document as-is, but changing the date elements.
If you wanted to use the date template for other elements, or values, you could also make it a named-template, like so
<xsl:template match="*[#type='xs:date']" name="date">
<xsl:param name="date" select="." />
<xsl:value-of select="translate($date, '-', '/')" />
</xsl:template>
This would allow you to also call it much like a function. For example, to format a data and add as an attribute you could do the following:
<input>
<xsl:attribute name="value">
<xsl:call-template name="date">
<xsl:with-param name="date" select="/select/a/date" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:attribute>
</input>