file2.xml
<test2>
<info>
<requirement>
<level1>
<para></para>
<pub></pub>
</level1>
</requirement>
</info>
</test2>
So, info and pub are two common elements between there two
xml files. So there is a common style sheet just for pub
called pub.xsl. pub has an attribute level which can be set to 1~4.
But in one commong style sheet, I want to apply templates for
all //info elements and not include //pub elements which have
@level='1'
Your source document doesn't have any attributes on pub elements: but it
does have an element called level1 which is the parent of the pub element.
Are you confused, or are you just trying to confuse the rest of us?
I tried:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="//info(not[self::pub[(_at_)level='1']">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//info(not[self::pub[(_at_)level='1']">
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
This is obv wrong because the processor complains about it.
1. not() is a function call, therefore it requires round brackets ()
2. a filter predicate is always written in square brackets.
3. both kinds of brackets have to match up!
So that corrects the grammar to:
//info[not(self::pub[(_at_)level='1'])]
4. An info element will never be a pub element, so you don't want the self::
axis here, you want some other axis. In your example pub is nested several
layers below info - but that pub element doesn't have a level attribute, so
perhaps your source document isn't useful as a guide.
5. If the select attribute of apply-templates doesn't select anything, then
it does nothing, so you don't need to test it first in an xsl:if or
xsl:choose.
6. You might be better off applying templates to all the elements, and
having different template rules to process those with level="1" and those
with a different level.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
--~------------------------------------------------------------------
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/
or e-mail: <mailto:xsl-list-unsubscribe(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
--~--