Hi all,
I need a workaround for a poor XML design. The XML structure is as follows:
<states>
<!-- countries which belong to no regional organization -->
<country>AA</country>
<country>AB</country>
<country>AC</country>
<country>AD</country>
<!-- a regional organization -->
<region>
<!-- the name of the regional org. is a country code -->
<country>AP</country>
</region>
<!-- countries following a region are members of that regional org. -->
<country>GH</country>
<country>GM</country>
<country>KE</country>
<country>UG</country>
<!-- another regional org. -->
<region>
<!-- the other regional org.'s name -->
<country>EP</country>
</region>
<!-- members of that regional org. -->
<country>AT</country>
<country>BE</country>
<country>CH</country>
<country>LI</country>
<country>CY</country>
</states>
What I need is to display a list of regional organizations with members,
followed by all countries not in an organization as such:
AP: (GH, GM, KE, UG); EP: (AT, BE, CH, LI, CY); AA, AB, AC, AD
The problem is that the countries that make up a region are not elementally
contained and I'm unsure of a way to specify "the <country> elements between
this <region> and the next <region>"
This is the template I've been working with:
<xsl:for-each select="states/region/country">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>:(
<!-- PROBLEM: all following countries are siblings (regardless of
which region they should belong to -->
<xsl:for-each
select="parent::region/following-sibling::country">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:if test="not(position()=last)">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>);
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:if test="parent::region[1]/preceding-sibling::country">
<xsl:for-each
select="parent::region[1]/preceding-sibling::country">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:if test="not(position()=last)">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>
Any help is always appreciated. TIA, John
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