Hello Michael:
Please bear with me as I try to understand stuff here.
I do understand the tree structure in XML. My problem
is that I want to apply the numbering for the element
r1 itself and not to any of its children. Basically, I
want to make a list starting from r1-r10. Each element
(r1-r10) should be numbered. So since I apply the
numbering to r1 inside the r1 template, its children
come under the numbering which I do not want to
happen. I want the children to appear without the
numbering and
so the issue I face is as soon as the processor hits
<r1>, it automatically puts number 1. and then
processes other elements. That is the reason to used
modes in my style sheet so that even though these
elements are children of <r1> they should not be
numbered.
am I still misunderstanding this concept?
--- Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com> wrote:
I assume you're the same person as xslt.new who
posted "axis specifiers"
last week (if not, it's a remarkable that you have
exactly the same problem
and the same misunderstandings).
We need to go back a step. You haven't understood a
word of the explanations
we gave you last week. Giving you the same
explanations again isn't going to
do much good. I'm really trying hard to read your
postings and work out
which step in the learning process you've got stuck
on, but I'm struggling.
The normal way of processing an XML document is to
work top-down. First, you
have to think of the document as a tree, with the
root at the top (strange
in botany, but not in computing). The document node
itself is at the top,
then the r1 element, and (a,a,b,a) are below the r1
element, at the next
level down (I stress this because you talk of test3
as being "below" b,
which means you're not yet thinking in tree terms).
So top down processing
means you write a template rule for r1, which
typically applies templates to
each of its children. You then define template rules
for each kind of child.
This works when the rules for an element are
independent of where it appears
relative to other elements at the same level. For
example, if every a
element is processed by converting the <a> tag to a
<p>, then you can write
a template rule
<xsl:template match="a">
<p><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
</xsl:template>
Similarly, if every b is processed by outputting a
<p> but with a sequence
number attached, you can write
<xsl:template match="b">
<p><xsl:number/>: <xsl:apply-templates/></p>
</xsl:template>
Now, your input and your processing seems to follow
this conventional style.
As far as we can see, you've got a perfectly
straightforward easy
transformation to do here that yields to the basic
techniques in chapter 1
of any textbook, and we can't see why you're making
it so difficult.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: ms [mailto:mina_hurray(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com]
Sent: 19 January 2007 14:58
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] testing for position of an element
and
displaying it accordingly
Hi all:
My input XML looks like this;
<r1>
<a>test</a>
<a>test2</a>
<b>test test</b>
<a>test3</a>
</r1>
For this XML, I would like to write an XSLT which
basically
achieves the following:
1) For the <a> elements which are above the <b>
element, they
should be displayed this way:
Test
Test2
1)test test
2) For the <a> element which appears after the <b>
element, I
want it displayed after the <b> element:
Test
Test2
1)test test
test3
How can I achieve this in XSLT? I tried testing
the
position, using position()=1. This works obviously
for the
first <a> element and fails for the second one.
Please let me know if this is possible?
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