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Re: [xsl] node depth

2007-09-07 04:43:41
Bernie wrote:
Is there any way to find out the depth of the current element in a
recursive template? The XML is the following:

The depth of any node in the current tree can be requested with: count(ancestor-or-self::*)

Bonus: your stylesheet can be written a bit easier as follows:

<xsl:template match="section">
       <li>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="label" />
       </li>
       <ul>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="section" />
       </ul>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="label">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@href[(_at_)href != '']" />
    <xsl:value-of select=".[not(@href) | normalize-space(@href) = '']" />
 </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="label/@href">
     <a href="{.}"><xsl:value-of select="label" /></a>
  </xsl:template>



As a general hint, whenever you are writing an xsl:choose or an xsl:if with a node test, consider rewriting it as a matching template/applying templates pair. This will undoubtedly make your code more adept to change, efficient and easier to understand in the long run. A test for a label being empty and then outputting its value is unnecessary. It may happen that an empty <a></a> occurs but that still renders the same, if you don't like that you can remove it by changing the matching template to:

  <xsl:template match="label[.!='']/@href">
     <a href="{.}"><xsl:value-of select="label" /></a>
  </xsl:template>

Cheers,

Abel Braaksma



<xsl:template match="section">
    <xsl:if test="label!=''">
        <li>
        <xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="label/@href!=''">
            <a>
                                <xsl:attribute name="href">
                                        <xsl:value-of select="label/@href" />
                                </xsl:attribute>
                          <xsl:value-of select="label" />
                  </a>
          </xsl:when>
          <xsl:otherwise>
                          <xsl:value-of select="label" />
          </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
        </li>
        <ul>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="section" />
        </ul>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
-----------------------------

Bernie.

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