No directly relevant to your question, but in XSLT 1.0 this:
<!-- number() makes sure we process field_no as a
number and not a string, otherwise 11 comes before 9 ;) -->
<xsl:sort select="number(field_no)"
order="ascending"/>
doesn't do what the comment says. In 1.0 you get a string-based sort unless
you specify data-type="number", regardless whether the actual values are
numeric.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Neff [mailto:jneff(_at_)blockvision(_dot_)com]
Sent: 13 December 2004 17:21
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Conditional selecting
Greetings,
Here is my XML document:
<record type="EA0">
<field_no>46</field_no>
<starting_position>267</starting_position>
<length>8</length>
<justification>L</justification>
<content></content>
<default_value></default_value>
<data_type>text</data_type>
</record>
<record type="EA0">
<field_no>47</field_no>
<starting_position>275</starting_position>
<length>8</length>
<justification>L</justification>
<content>CLM_CR_DT</content>
<default_value></default_value>
<data_type>date2</data_type>
</record>
<record>
<record type="EA0">
<field_no>47</field_no>
<plan_id>CHNCT</plan_id>
<starting_position>275</starting_position>
<length>8</length>
<justification>L</justification>
<content>claim_paid_date</content>
<default_value></default_value>
<data_type>date2</data_type>
</record>
<record type="EA0">
<field_no>48</field_no>
<starting_position>283</starting_position>
<length>1</length>
<justification>L</justification>
<content></content>
<default_value></default_value>
<data_type>text</data_type>
</record>
Here is a snip of the XSL stylesheet that uses this :
<xsl:apply-templates select="$field_definitions/*[(_at_)type
= 'EA0']">
<!-- number() makes sure we process
field_no as a
number and not a string, otherwise 11 comes before 9 ;) -->
<xsl:sort select="number(field_no)"
order="ascending"/>
<xsl:with-param name="current_context"
select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
I select those records that match the "EA0" record type and
then sort them
according to field_no.
My question is in regards to field_no 47. What I want to do
is select the
record IF there is a plan_id instead of the record without a
plan id. Not
all records will have a plan id.
So if there is a child element of the record node that has a
value in the
plan_id field then use that record number instead of the
record with the
same number that DOES NOT have the plan_id.
Thanks in advance,
Jim Neff
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