Wendell,
Thanks for the response! The following messages may shead some light on why
I am doing it this way.
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200402/msg00826.html
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200402/msg00831.html
Although my input no longer looks like:
<foreach>
<in>
<item>test1</item>
<item>test2</item>
<item>test3</item>
<item>test4</item>
<item>test5</item>
</in>
<do>
<tr><td><var/></td><td><var/></td></tr>
<tr><td><var/> Test</td><td><var/> Test</td></tr>
</do>
</foreach>
It looks like:
<foreach param="devices">
<tr><td><b>BOLDFACE</b> Some Text</td><td>Here</td></tr>
<tr><td> Test11</td><td>Test</td></tr>
</foreach>
Along with this fragment of XML I also have another XML file name @param.xml
(devices.xml) which contains an XML list of all the devices I want to loop
through
<doc>
<item>dev1</item>
<item>dev2</item>
<item>dev3</item>
<item>dev4</item>
</doc>
so here is the foreach template:
<xsl:template match="foreach">
<xsl:variable name="foreachNode" select="current()" />
<xsl:variable name="nodeLocation" select="concat($tmpdir,@param,'.xml')"
/>
<xsl:for-each select="document($nodeLocation)/doc/item">
<xsl:call-template name="foreachOutput">
<xsl:with-param name="cdata" select="text()" />
<xsl:with-param name="do-sect" select="$foreachNode/*" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Opens the devices.xml file and gets each item calling foerachOutput with
$cdata = dev1 ... and do-sect = all the children of the current node.
Here is the foreachOutput template:
<xsl:template name="foreachOutput">
<xsl:param name="cdata" />
<xsl:param name="do-sect" />
<xsl:for-each select="$do-sect">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name() = 'replace'">
<xsl:call-template name="replaceImage">
<xsl:with-param name="var" select="$cdata" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="name() = 'variable'">
<xsl:call-template name="insertVariable">
<xsl:with-param name="var" select="$cdata" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
<xsl:call-template name="foreachOutput">
<xsl:with-param name="do-sect" select="./*" />
<xsl:with-param name="cdata" select="$cdata" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
We have no "replace" or "variable" tags (which I do need to handle
differently than all the other tags), we are in the xsl:otherwise but I get
no text output only the tags and attributes of those tags. I need to output
all the text inside the tags (expect for the "variable" and "replace" tags.
Any clues?
Thanks for any help!
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendell Piez" <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Selecting and printing certain nodes
Hi Glenn,
At 04:02 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
I am having a problem printing certain nodes to the result tree. Here is
the XML I am working on:
...
<tr><td><b>Before</b> After Variable</td/</tr>
...
I have it to the point where I am printing the <tr>,<td> and <b> tags.
The
problem is the result is:
<tr><td><b></b></td></tr> Where did all my text go?
XSL:
<xsl:template name="foreachOutput">
<xsl:param name="cdata"/>
<xsl:param name="do-sect"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$do-sect">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name() = 'variable'">
<xsl:call-template name="insertVariable">
<xls:with-param name="var" select="$data"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl-copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:call-template name="foreachOutput">
<xsl:with-param name="do-sect" select="./*"/>
<xsl:with-param name="cdata" select="$cdata"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
From the above snipit of XML (<tr><td>...) I assume I am not getting
into
the <xsl:when test="name()='variable'"> section so I am in the
<xsl:otherwise> which uses the <xsl:element>
That's a fair assumption. Since you don't have any <variable> elements,
the
test="name()='variable'" will never be true.
Beyond this, however, is a mystery. For one thing, as given your code
won't
work -- there's no assignment of a value to a variable $data; and it looks
as though nothing will ever be assigned to $cdata either.
Which really raises the question of why you are writing a recursive
template to do what the XSL processor will do for you in any case. Is
there
a reason why you aren't using the standard template-driven approach? If
you
want your output to look just like your input, the identity template
provides for this:
<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
(In this case, the text will be copied to output by virtue of matching the
built-in template for text nodes, which copies the value of the node to
the
result.)
But even if you don't want your output exactly like your input,
plain-vanilla XSLT template matching is far easier and more flexible, too.
Please elucidate: we need more context for your code, both how it's
getting
invoked, and why you're doing it this way and not the easy way. :->
Cheers,
Wendell
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