Re: using xsl to substitute synonyms or translate

Sorry to answer my own question.  If I had thought about it longer I would 
have realized the answer.  The whole xsl is below (untested).  But I will 
walk through the steps in case this is helpful to anyone.  I use an include 
document, e.g.,
<xsl:variable name="nameLookupDoc" 
select="document('/includes/names.xml')"/>
and then creating a key on that document, e.g.,

<xsl:key name="nameNumKey" match="nflTeamNames/name" use="@nameId"/>

where 'nameId' would be a new attribute, e.g.,
<nflName nameId='49ers'>
 <alias>San Francisco</alias>
</nflName>


Then I do a match and a for-each, e.g.,

<xsl:template match="names">
<xsl:for-each select="$nameLookupDoc">
  <xsl:value-of select="key('nameNumKey',.)/alias"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

So the whole thing looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; >
        <xsl:output method="html"/>
	<xsl:variable name="nameLookupDoc" 
select="document('/stage4/includes/names.xml')"/>
        <xsl:key name="nameNumKey" match="name" use="@nameId"/>
        <xsl:template match="/">
                <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:template>
        <xsl:template match="nflTeamNames"/>
        <xsl:template match="names">
                <xsl:variable 
name="lcletters">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</xsl:variable>
                <xsl:variable 
name="ucletters">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</xsl:variable>
                        <xsl:for-each select="$nameLookupDoc">
                                <xsl:value-of 
select="translate(key('nameNumKey',.)/alias"/>
                        </xsl:for-each>
        </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>



> From: "Thomas McDonald" <tomandlis(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com>
> Reply-To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
> Subject: [xsl] using xsl to substitute synonyms or translate Date: Tue, 07 
> Jan 2003 15:36:22 -0500
> I have a problem that I think is similar to translating words in one 
> language to words in another language and I was wondering if I could use 
> xsl to do it.
> I know what my source input will be (example below) and I know what I want 
> to output to be, but I can't fathom how to build an xsl to get the output.  
> I thought I could use the translate function, but there would be a long 
> list of things to translate.  There are 32 teams and I want to use this 
> process again (on something unrelated) for a list of over 300 items.
> Here is what my source document will look like
>
> <nflTeamNames>
>   <name>49ers</name>
>   <name>Cowboys</name>
>   .
>   .
>   .
>   <name>Seahawks</name>
> <nflTeamNames>
>
> Here is what I want the output to look like:
>
> <nflCities>
>   <city>San Francisco</city>
>   <city>Dallas</city>
>   .
>   .
>   .
>   <city>Seattle</city>
> </nflCities>
>
> In case you don't know American football the 49ers are the San Francisco 
> team, the Cowboys are the Dallas team and so on. :-)
> Regards,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
>
>
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