Spencer,
Thats what I trying to explain in my email. That,
very unfortunately, I cannot do apply-templates on
<step> nodes. The biggest reason for not able to do
that is that I could have 100+ different possible
child nodes within <service> node and each child node
could potentially appear in any order. So I cannot do
apply-templates on specific child nodes as I would NOT
know what order I need to it in and second I'd have to
do 100 apply-templates for each child node.
I know its not the best XML design but heck thats what
I am handed down and I have to make it work. Not my
choice.
Thx,
C.
--- Spencer Tickner <spencertickner(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi,
I tried your above example with the match="service"
followed by
match="step" and got the desired output? Give this a
try maybe it'll
help:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="service">
<xsl:apply-templates select="step"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="step">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(position(), '. ',
normalize-space(text()))"/><br/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
output:
1. Go to File menu
2. Select Print
3. Click Print
Sounds like you've tried this already, I know I've
had this problem
before and it has to do with whitespace nodes,
either or give it a
shot.
On 5/5/05, c p <bugs75il(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hello all,
I have following XML:
-----------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<service>
<title>Printing the Page</title>
<somenode>node content might go
here.</somenode>
<step>Go to File menu</step>
<step>Select Print</step>
<step>Click Print</step>
<somenode>you are all done.</somenode>
</service>
-----------------------------------------
As you can see the XML has a <service> node with a
whole bunch of other child nodes. Out of all the
child nodes, I am interested in getting the
position
for <step> nodes only. Its pretty simple but
there's
a twist. In the example above if I did
<xsl:apply-templates match="service"/> and then
for
each child node I did a position() then it would
give
me numbers 2,4,and 5 for the <step> nodes.
However
thats not what I want. I want it to give me
numbers
1,2,3 for the <step> nodes. The way I can get
that is
by doing <xsl:apply-templates
match="service/step"/>,
unfortunately due to the complexity of my XSL and
XML
structure I cannot do that. Is there a way to
achieve
this so I can get an output that will look like
this:
---------------------------------------------
1. Go to File menu
2. Select Print
3. Click Print
---------------------------------------------
Note: Its not always guaranteed that the first
<step>
node will start after <title> node or any other
node.
It could be random.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thx,
C
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