Hi Jim,
There are many ways to do this.
From my point of view, the goal would be to make this portable to other
alphabets. A kind of unique way might be to put a little look-up table in
your stylesheet (it would be even better to refer to an external file, but
the concept is still sort of the same):
So if you put this at the stylesheet level:
<xsl:param name="letters">
<alphabet-char character="A"/>
<alphabet-char character="B"/>
<alphabet-char character="C"/>
<alphabet-char character="D"/>
<alphabet-char character="E"/>
<alphabet-char character="F"/>
<alphabet-char character="G"/>
<alphabet-char character="H"/>
<alphabet-char character="I"/>
<alphabet-char character="J"/>
<alphabet-char character="K"/>
<alphabet-char character="L"/>
<alphabet-char character="M"/>
<alphabet-char character="N"/>
<alphabet-char character="O"/>
<alphabet-char character="P"/>
<alphabet-char character="Q"/>
<alphabet-char character="R"/>
<alphabet-char character="S"/>
<alphabet-char character="T"/>
<alphabet-char character="U"/>
<alphabet-char character="V"/>
<alphabet-char character="W"/>
<alphabet-char character="X"/>
<alphabet-char character="Y"/>
<alphabet-char character="Z"/>
</xsl:param>
Where the character attribute could be substituted for any character set,
you could then make use of the document('') function to get your desired
results, something like this:
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="terms">
<xsl:copy-of select="XML" />
</xsl:variable>
<letters>
<xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/xsl:param/alphabet-char">
<xsl:variable name="term-letter" select="@character" />
<xsl:for-each select="$terms">
<keyword letter="{$term-letter}">
<xsl:for-each select="*/*[starts-with(@Keyword,$term-letter)]">
<term>
<name><xsl:copy-of select="@Keyword" /></name>
<id><xsl:copy-of select="@Key_ID" /></id>
<definition><xsl:copy-of select="@Description" /></definition>
<status><xsl:copy-of select="@Status" /></status>
</term>
</xsl:for-each>
</keyword>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</letters>
</xsl:template>
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Han [mailto:jhan(_at_)horizonhobby(_dot_)com]
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:19 AM
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] XSL Transformation
I've trying to work on this XSL transformation but I am running into a wall.
Can some help me get started?
I need an xsl to conver this xml:
<XML>
<row Key_ID="2" Keyword="A-10" Description="A-10 Warthog ARF w/
Ducted Fans" Status="active"/>
<row Key_ID="3" Keyword="Aerobird Challenger" Description="Aerobird
Challenger RTF " Status="active"/>
<row Key_ID="5" Keyword="CARISMA" Description="CARISMA R/C CARS"
Status="active"/>
<row Key_ID="4" Keyword="Mech Warrior" Description="Mech Warrior:
Fire For Effect Booster Pack " Status="active"/>
<row Key_ID="1" Keyword="Mini-T" Description="Mini-T RTR 1/18-Scale
Off-Road Truck" Status="active"/>
</XML>
To:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Keywords xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<Keyword Letter="A">
<Term>
<Id>2</Id>
<Name>A-10</Name>
<Definition>A-10 Warthog ARF w/ Ducted
Fans.</Definition>
<status>active</status>
</Term>
<Term>
<Id>3</Id>
<Name>Aerobird Challenger</Name>
<Definition>Aerobird Challenger RTF..</Definition>
<status>active</status>
</Term>
</Keyword>
<Keyword Letter="B">
</Keyword>
<Keyword Letter="C">
<Term>
<Id>5</Id>
<Name>CARISMA</Name>
<Definition>CARISMA R/C CARS</Definition>
<status>active</status>
</Term>
</Keyword>
<Keyword Letter="D"/>
<Keyword Letter="E"/>
<Keyword Letter="F"/>
<Keyword Letter="G"/>
<Keyword Letter="H"/>
<Keyword Letter="I"/>
<Keyword Letter="J"/>
<Keyword Letter="K"/>
<Keyword Letter="L"/>
<Keyword Letter="M">
<Term>
<Id>4</Id>
<Name>Mech Warrior</Name>
<Definition>Mech Warrior: Fire For Effect Booster
Pack</Definition>
<status>active</status>
</Term>
<Term>
<Id>1</Id>
<Name>Mini-T</Name>
<Definition>Mini-T RTR 1/18-Scale Off-Road
Truck</Definition>
<status>active</status>
</Term>
</Keyword>
<Keyword Letter="N"/>
<Keyword Letter="O"/>
<Keyword Letter="P"/>
<Keyword Letter="Q"/>
<Keyword Letter="R"/>
<Keyword Letter="S"/>
<Keyword Letter="T"/>
<Keyword Letter="U"/>
<Keyword Letter="V"/>
<Keyword Letter="W"/>
<Keyword Letter="X"/>
<Keyword Letter="Y"/>
<Keyword Letter="Z"/>
</Keywords>
Jim
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