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[xsl] Moving an element to a different grouping based on a child value: use xsl:copy-of?

2009-01-16 17:56:12
Dear XSL gurus,

I have some XML in the following format:

INPUT XML
---------------
<station_list>
        <snets>
                <snet id="AZ">AZ (UC San Diego)</snet>
                <snet id="BK">BK (UC Berkeley)</snet>
                <snet id="CI">CI (CalTech)</snet>
                <snet id="IU">IU GSN</snet>
                <snet id="NN">NN (UN Reno)</snet>
                <snet id="TA">TA (USArray)</snet>
                <snet id="US">US ANSS</snet>
                <snet id="UU">UUSS (Uni. Utah)</snet>
        </snets>
        <stations>
                <station name="MONP">
                        <Network>AZ</Network>
                </station>
                <station name="BDM">
                        <Network>BK</Network>
                </station>
                <station name="FARB">
                        <Network>BK</Network>
                </station>
                <station name="109C">
                        <Network>TA</Network>
                </station>
                <station name="A05A">
                        <Network>TA</Network>
                </station>
                <station name="Z14A">
                        <Network>TA</Network>
                </station>
                <station name="US">
                        <Network>MSTX</Network>
                </station>

                ..... [lots of <station> elements, over 600]....

        </stations>
</station_list>

I want to group the output on the <snet> element id attribute value, moving all matching <Network> stations into their respective <snet> group. Like the following format:

DESIRED OUTPUT XML
-----------------------------
<kml xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1 ">

        <Document>

                <Folder id="AZ">
                        <name>AZ (UC San Diego)</name>
                        <Placemark>
                                <name>MONP</name>
                        </Placemark>
                </Folder>

                <Folder id="BK">
                        <name>BK (UC Berkeley)</name>
                        <Placemark>
                                <name>BDM</name>
                        </Placemark>
                        <Placemark>
                                <name>FARB</name>
                        </Placemark>
                </Folder>
        
                <Folder id="TA">
                        <name>TA (USArray)</name>
                        <Placemark>
                                <name>109C</name>
                        </Placemark>
                </Folder>

                <Folder id="US">
                        <name>ANSS</name>
                        <Placemark>
                                <name>MSTX</name>
                        </Placemark>
                </Folder>

        </Document>

</kml>

Essentially I want to iterate through the document tree looking for each <station> <Network> element, then relocating it into the different groups of <snet>. The following XSLT works for generating the <Folder> elements, but how do I match the <Network> element value and move them to the correct <Folder> groups? I have read about <xsl:copy> and <xsl:copy-of>, but can't seem to figure out how to write an expression that will work.

XSL
----
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
        xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.1";
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" cdata-section- elements="description" />

        <xsl:template match="/">
        <kml>
                <Document>
                        <xsl:for-each select="station_list/snets/snet">
                                <Folder id="{(_at_)id}">
                                        <name><xsl:value-of select="." /></name>
                                </Folder>

<!-- Some sort of xsl:copy-of select expression to get the matching <station> <Network> values? -->
                                <!-- Guessing here -->

                                <xsl:apply-templates 
select="station_list/stations/station/" />

                        </xsl:for-each>
                </Document>
        </kml>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="station_list/stations/station/">
        <Placemark>
                <name><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></name>
        </Placemark>
        </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


Any help appreciated! I hope I have explained this clearly. I know this is probably a newbie question, so please bear with me - I only occasionally dabble in XSL.

Thanks in advance,
- Rob

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