A very strange structure if you don't mind me saying!
If you assume that the description nodes are in the same order as the
equivalent column nodes
(which in your example is not the case!!) :
<xsl:template match="column">
<xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()" />
<xsl:for-each select="key('groupKey', @name)">
<xsl:value-of
select="/root/descriptions/description[$position()]" />
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
It is not obvious in your example how the description elements relate to the
column
elements other than the fact they have the same fruit...!?!
A far better structure might be:
<root>
..
<order>
<column name="orange" description="this is an orange"/>
<column name="apple" description="this is an apple"/>
</order>
..
</root>
Bryan
-----Original Message-----
From: florian [mailto:csshsh(_at_)structbench(_dot_)com]
Sent: 28 March 2003 12:57
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] xpath question
hi!
i would have an additional question to this:
if my document would look like this:
<root>
<descriptions>
<description>this is an apple</description>
<description>this is an orange</description>
</descriptions>
<group>
<apple>bla</apple>
<orange>bla</orange>
</group>
<group>
<apple>bla</apple>
<orange>bla</orange>
</group>
<order>
<column name="orange" />
<column name="apple" />
</order>
</root>
how could i get the matching description for every column,
when i loop though them via the order described in the order
node?
somehow i cannot think of a way to do that with xpath : /
thanks!
ciao!
florian
At 12:07 PM 3/27/2003, you wrote:
i have a document xml doc like this:
<root>
<group>
<apple>bla</apple>
<orange>bla</orange>
</group>
<group>
<apple>bla</apple>
<orange>bla</orange>
</group>
<order>
<column name="orange" />
<column name="apple" />
</order>
</root>
i would like to do the following: im going though all the column nodes
and would like to access the group nodes where the column attribute name
and the group node name match up.
basically i can just not think of a way to do that in xpath.. anybody
got an tip? how can i say in xpath that it should get the node with
the name in @name and not just access the name attribute of a group
node..
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