RE: Merging multiple SVGs using XSLT

Hello Wendell and Michael,
          Thank you for the help with the XSL. I was
able to figure out the mistakes with my XSL after
reading your comments. Being new to XSL, but with
project deadlines, I was trying to use it with
whatever little I knew of XSL. I realized that it is
the best way to combine multiple SVG files into a
single SVG graphic, so I didn't want to use anything
else.
          I will read up more on XSL. Do you have any
suggestions for a web-site where I can find XSL
tutorials?
          Thanks again for your help.
Cheers,
YK.
           
--- Michael Kay <mhk(_at_)mhk(_dot_)me(_dot_)uk> wrote:


Following is the XSL code I am using...


I can't tell you what you should be doing (it's too
late at night to try
and understand your problem clearly) but I can tell
you a little about
what you're doing wrong.


<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>



    <xsl:template match="/">
            <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3c.org/2000/svg";

width="1656"

height="2088" viewBox="0 0 1656 2088">


    <xsl:copy-of select="*[..]"/>

This xsl:copy-of instruction copies all children of
the root node that
have a parent. Of course all children of the root
have a parent, so the
predicate does nothing. If you left out the
predicate, you would copy
the whole source document, without making any
changes to it. That can't
really be what you want.

            <xsl:for-each select="/">


This selects the root node of the tree and iterates
over it. There's no
point in iterating over a node-set containing a
single node (and it's
only selecting the node that's already the context
node for this
template anyway).


            
                    
                            <xsl:if test="position()=last()">


If you're iterating over one node, then that node
will always be the
last...

                                    <svg 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3c.org/2000/svg"; x="456"
y="420" width="748" height="224">


Both these namespaces are already declared, why do
you need to declare
them again?

                                    <xsl:copy-of

select="document('http://10.96.10.20/servlet/ImageReaderByNIDQ

?nacid=119476&amp;filetype=f')"/>
                                    </svg>

                                    <svg 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
xmlns:svg="http://www.w3c.org/2000/svg"; x="396"
y="756" width="864" height="540">
                                    <xsl:copy-of

select="document('http://10.96.10.20/servlet/ImageReaderByNIDQ

?nacid=119480&amp;filetype=f')"/>
                                    </svg>
                            </xsl:if>
                    
            
            </xsl:for-each>
            </svg>
    </xsl:template> 
    
    
</xsl:stylesheet>


I'm sorry my comments aren't more constructive but I
hope they help you
see what you're doing wrong.

Michael Kay


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