You're nearly there.
the expression
select="following-sibling::TD[generate-id(preceding-sibling::TD[1])=$id]
">
is wrong on two counts. Firstly, you need to use following/preceding
because the elements aren't siblings of each other (they can be
cousins). Secondly, $id is an <a> element, not a TD element. [Also, your
input uses lower case while your stylesheet uses uppercase, but I assume
that's just a typo].
Write
select="following::TD[generate-id(preceding::A[1]) = $id]"
I actually find it's not only more efficient, but also clearer, to do
these positional grouping problems using keys. Declare
<xsl:key match="TD" use="generate-id(preceding::A[1])"/>
and then, from an A, you can use the key to find all its "immediately
following" TDs.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Thomas McDonald
Sent: 29 November 2002 16:04
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Subject: [xsl] converting html table to xml
I have an html table that looks like the one included below.
I want to
convert it to an xml file that looks like the one shown
below. I haven't
had much luck, but I have included my xsl attempt below, but
it doesn't
quite get me what I am looking for.
Here is the sample xml
<table>
<tr>
<td><a>lateletters</a></td>
<td>xx</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>yy</td>
<td>zz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><a>earlyletters</a></td>
<td>aa</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>bb</td>
<td>cc</td>
</tr>
</table>
Here is what I want the output to look like
<frag>
<letters name="lateletters">
<letter>xx</letter>
<letter>yy</letter>
<letter>zz</letter>
</letters>
<letters name="earlyletters">
<letter>yy</letter>
<letter>yy</letter>
<letter>yy</letter>
</letters>
</frag>
esentially, I want all the contents of a <td> tag that follow
an <a> tag to
be contained within a <letters> parent element. Once you hit
a new <a> tag
in the document then you should start a new <letters> parent element.
Here is my shot at it that uses ids and positions, but my
position criteria
doesn't really work because it only grabs those <td>
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="/TABLE">
<xsl:for-each select="TR/TD/A">
<xsl:variable name="id" select="generate-id()"/>
<letters><xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of
select="."/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:for-each
select="following-sibling::TD[generate-id(preceding-sibling::T
D[1])=$id]">
<letter><xsl:value-of select="."/></letter>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</letters>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
the above doesn't work, but I think it is moving in the right
direction. I
think the real problem happens because my second 'for-each'
xpath, i.e.,
"following-sibling::TD[generate-id(preceding-sibling::TD[1])=$
id]" can't
select the following <td> siblings because I don't know how
to construct so
it will get the right nodes.
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