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RE: [xsl] XML Elements to XML Attributes

2007-01-14 16:33:40
Using a for-each and testing position() seems clumsy, compared with explicit
indexing. 

What's wrong with

<entry tag="{td[1]}" attribute="{td[2]}" type="{td[3]}"
description="{td[4]}"/>

Not coming from a C/C++ world, I can't see why you would want to use
variables.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu(_dot_)malaterre(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 14 January 2007 01:32
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] XML Elements to XML Attributes

Hello,

  I have a very simple question. I have currently the 
following xsl script (1). But instead of creating elements I 
would like to create attributes, something like:

  <entry tag="{$1}" attribute="{$2}" type="{$3}" description="{$4}"/>

  Where $1-4 are the values coming from the loop at 
position() respectively 1-4.
  Coming from a C/C++ world I would have created variables, 
unfortunately I cannot do that with the loop. I must be 
missing something trivial to be able to rewrite it correctly in XSL.

Thanks


(1)
        <entry>
        <xsl:for-each select="td">
          <xsl:variable name="cur_val">
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
          </xsl:variable>
          <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="position() = 1">
              <tag d="{$cur_val}"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="position() = 2">
              <attribute d="{$cur_val}"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="position() = 3">
              <type d="{$cur_val}"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="position() = 4">
              <description d="{$cur_val}"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
              <bug/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
          </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:for-each>
        </entry>


--
Mathieu

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