Hi
Given the following input, I need to remove name elements that exist in
every section (but do not contain the string 'new entry') and create a
new section containing the aforementioned.
The stylesheet below gives me the desired result for this given input,
but the <section name="allsections"> element is hard coded into the
stylesheet. I will have instances where no name elements exist in every
section and therefore I do not want to output a self closing section
element. I am struggling to write a condition around <section
name="allsections">. Any help would be appreciated.
Kind regards.
--
Kevin
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Input:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<sections>
<section name="North">
<name>Kevin</name>
<name>Bill</name>
<name>Fred</name>
<name>Ollie</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
</section>
<section name="South">
<name>Fred</name>
<name>Kevin</name>
<name>Bill</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
</section>
<section name="West">
<name>Kevin</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Bill</name>
<name>Ollie</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
<name>Fred</name>
</section>
<section name="East">
<name>Harry</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
<name>Bill</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Kevin</name>
<name>Ollie</name>
</section>
</sections>
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Required Output
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sections>
<section name="North">
<name>Fred</name>
<name>Ollie</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
</section>
<section name="South">
<name>Fred</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
</section>
<section name="West">
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Ollie</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
<name>Fred</name>
</section>
<section name="East">
<name>Harry</name>
<name>Bob - new entry</name>
<name>Frank - new entry</name>
<name>Ollie</name>
</section>
<section name="allsections">
<name>Kevin</name>
<name>Bill</name>
</section>
</sections>
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XSL
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="sections">
<sections>
<xsl:variable name="section-count"
select="count(section)"/>
<xsl:for-each select="section">
<section name="{(_at_)name}">
<xsl:variable
name="other-sections"
select="preceding-sibling::section|following-sibling::section"/>
<xsl:for-each select="name">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="contains(.,'new entry')">
<name>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</name>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when
test="count($other-sections/name[lower-case(.) = lower-case(current())])
= ($section-count -1)"/>
<xsl:otherwise>
<name>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</name>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</section>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- This is hard coded, need to add a condition
-->
<section name="allsections">
<xsl:for-each select="section[1]/name">
<xsl:variable
name="other-sections" select="../following-sibling::section"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="contains(.,'new entry')"/>
<xsl:when
test="count($other-sections/name[lower-case(.) = lower-case(current())])
= ($section-count -1)">
<xsl:copy-of
select="."/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise/>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</section>
</sections>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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