We had someone else ask this a couple of days ago: the problem is called
"positional grouping" and you'll find a lot of material by googling on that.
There are broadly three approaches:
(a) in XSLT 2.0, use xsl:for-each-group group-starting-with=pattern
(b) handle it in the same way as value-based grouping (ie Muenchian grouping
using keys, but with a carefully-crafted grouping key: in this case
something like generate-id(self::NT|preceding-sibling::NT[1])
(c) recurse over the logical tree using xsl:apply-templates; on each
iteration instead of selecting the physical children, you select the logical
children, which are the following siblings that have the current record as
the most recent logical parent: something like apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[generate-id(preceding-sibling::NT[1]) =
generate-id(current())]".
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacqui Moore [mailto:jacquimoore1(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk]
Sent: 07 October 2004 17:27
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Flat XML: Problem getting children
I have an xml file that has the following structure:
<thesaurus>
<concept>
<descriptor>House</descriptor>
<NT>Rooms</NT>
<NT>Roofs</NT>
<SN>All About houses</SN>
</concept>
<concept>
<descriptor>Rooms</descriptor>
<BT>House</BT>
<NT>Lounge</NT>
<NT>Kitchen</NT>
<SN>We have rooms in houses</SN>
</concept>
<concept>
<descriptor> Lounge </descriptor>
<BT> Rooms </BT>
<SN>Lounges are nice places</SN>
</concept>
<concept>
<descriptor> Roofs </descriptor>
<BT>House</BT>
<NT>Kitchen</NT>
<SN>Roofs go on houses</SN>
</concept>
<concept>
<descriptor> Utensils </descriptor>
<BT>Kitchen</BT>
<SN>Utensils belong in the draw</SN>
</concept>
</thesaurus>
NT - the children categories
BT - the parent category
The objective is to create a expandable client side tree
structure, and the
user will click on a category and the category information
(SN) will be
displayed in the right frame.
- HOUSE
- Rooms
o Lounge
o Kitchen
§ Utensils
- Roofs
o Kitchen
§ Utensils
I can get the top level categories:
<xsl:for-each select="thesaurus/concept[boolean(BT)=false]">
My problem is I do not know how to get the children and their
children etc.
(loop until the concept has no NT element) . There is no
limit to the number
of children levels and a child can appear in more than one
parent. I think I
need to use a key but am not having ANY success.
Thanks in advance!!
Jacqui
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