A few things here, Alice:
- It seems you have your if's and when's confused here. This sequence:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="someTest">someResult</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise/>
</xsl:choose>
is the exact same as the following:
<xsl:if test="someTest">someResult</xsl:if>
Right beneath that, though, you have a series of three <xsl:if/>
statements that create an attribute "style", of which two could possible
be true at a time. This sounds like a prime case for using <xsl:when/>.
- ./@rendition is the exact same as @rendition. Since you're not
switching the context node in your XPath tests involving $rendition, it
looks like the variable $rendition isn't needed either. (This might
change in your final stylesheet, but keep it simple until then!)
- "child::text()" is the same as "text()", which is the same as "." in
functions that evaluate the value of their arguments. And
string-length() doesn't even need an argument, if you want it to default
to the value of the context node. ... Looking at it, though, since there
are child _elements_ in the context node, you'd be better off sticking
with text() for consistency.
- It seems you forgot a parenthesis in your second condition (also,
numbers are a primitive datatype in XPath, so don't quote them):
string-length('25 ' < child::text() < '50')
Two inequality tests in a row doesn't work in XPath like it does in
math; < outputs a boolean, so you're testing if the boolean result is
less than 50. Always true.
With that, here's my rendition of the fixed stylesheet:
<xsl:template match="book">
<div>
<p>
<xsl:if test="@rendition != ''">
<div class="{(_at_)rendition}">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:variable name="bg-size">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="count(p) > 1">_large</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="string-length(text()) < 25"/>
<xsl:when test="string-length(text()) <
50)">_med</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('background-image:url('',
@rendition, $bg-size, '.png')'"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<p>
<xsl:call-template name="rend"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</div>
</xsl:if>
</p>
</div>
</xsl:template>
Give it a spin, see how it works.
~ Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Alice Ju-Hsuan Wei [mailto:ajwei(_at_)indiana(_dot_)edu]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:12 AM
To: xsl-list
Subject: [xsl] [XSL] Counting Child Nodes?
Hi,
I am making attempts to make the output of the transformed XML to be
able to display different images based on the nodes and string length.
Below is the XSLT:
XSLT:
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:variable name="rendition">
<xsl:value-of select="./@rendition"/>
</xsl:variable>
<div>
<p>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$rendition!=''">
<div>
<xsl:attribute name="class">
<xsl:value-of select="$rendition"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:if
test="string-length(child::text())<'25'">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
background-image:url('<xsl:value-of
select="./@rendition"/>.png')
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="string-length('25 ' <
child::text() < '50')">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
background-image:url('<xsl:value-of
select="./@rendition"/>_med.png') </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="count(child::p) > 1">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
background-image:url('<xsl:value-of
select="./@rendition"/>_large.png') </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<p>
<xsl:call-template name="rend"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</p>
</div>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<!--Don't display anything-->
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</p>
</div>
</xsl:template>
XML:
<book topic="Technology" rendition="xslt" author="Tennison, Jeni"
title="Beginning XSLT">
<p>New York: Apress, 2002.</p>
<p>The book serves as an introduction to XSLT based on the examples
of a television
program set. A resourceful book for those new to the technology.</p>
</book>
I want to use the code displayed above (XML) to display the file name
with the name of xslt_large, and now in the HTML source it does not
display that, even though the code above has two <p> tags. Can anyone
please help me out?
Anything is appreciated.
Alice
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