Chandra, you might want to look through the
XSLT FAQ at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/. This
along with some of the books suggested at the site
can help a lot. But to answer your questions:
When u say <xsl:apply-templates select="NAME"/>, Will all the
NAME nodes
under MEMBER be selected(say there are more than 1 NAME nodes under
MEMBER)?
yes (but only NAME children, not descendants that are an lower
in the hierarchy)
Also will the NAME template rule be applied to each
one of the NAME
nodes before the Phone node is selected?
yes
2)
<xsl:variable name='signers'
select=/legal_authenticator/person'/>
<xsl:if test='$signers'>
.....
.....
</xsl:if>
What is the xsl:if tag doing here? Is it testing whether
/legal_authenticator/person' exists??
yes
3)<person_name>
<nm>
<GIV V="Henry"/>
<FAM V="Levin"/>
</nm>
<person_name.type_cd V="L" S="2d"/>
</person_name>
For the above xml, I see the following in the stylesheet
<xsl:apply-templates
select='person_name[person_name.type_cd/@V="L"]'/>
What do the [] mean?? Why can't I just have / instead of the []??
[] is what the XSLT spec calls a predicate. It's a way of
specifying a criteria rather than pointing to a specific node.
So, what this select is saying (in English) is:
Select all person_name nodes from the current context that
contain a person_name.type_cd element with a V attribute
whose value is "L"
But what is selected is the person_name node and that's
what the XSLT engine looks for and how it selects the template
to apply to person_name. If you had this instead:
<xsl:apply-templates select='person_name/person_name.type_cd/@V="L"/>
what the select would say would be:
Select the V attribute on the person_name.type_cd element that is
a child of a person_name element that is a child of the current
context.
It selects the attribute.
Sara
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