Hello everyone,
This is a question about a transformation from a dictionary format that
encodes language as an attribute of each term to another (ISO-standard)
format in which all terms in each language are grouped under a language
element (the language is their parent). I managed to do that, no problem
there.
However, I know my code could be improvable at least in one thing: I
write the same transformation for each language and in this case it's
not too bad because there's only three languages, but that implies I
first need to check how many languages there are and that I need to have
longer, duplicated code. It would be a pain if there were many
languages... (which might be the case in the future).
I tried doing this with a for-each for each term[(_at_)lang='es'] but to no
avail (I think I could do it for elements but the problem is that the
pivot data is an attribute). I also tried to figure out how that could
be done with templates (because in Perl I would do it with a subroutine)
but I guess I need to pass the language as a variable and I don't know
how to do that.
The question is: how could I write the code that process each langSet
only once for all langSets instead of once specifically for each
langSet. I hope it's clear.
Now that I've started using XSL more I took a very thick book from the
library by a bearded guy ;) but it'll take quite a while to get from
that book the knowledge that I need to do this kind of thins. In the
meanwhile, thank you so much for your help!
I use processor Saxon 6.5.5.
====================This is the source data (very
abridged):=====================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<dictionary>
<author>TERMCAT, Centre de Terminologia</author>
<title>TO Begudes</title>
<records>
<record num="1">
<term lang="ca">absenta</term>
<term lang="es">absenta</term>
<term lang="es">ajenjo</term>
<term lang="en">absinth</term>
<term lang="en">absinthe</term>
</record>
<record num="2">
<term lang="ca">acetificació</term>
<term lang="es">acetificación</term>
<term lang="en">acetification</term>
</record>
</records>
</dictionary>
===============This is the result that I obtain (and should obtain):
==========================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<martif type="TBX" xml:lang="en">
<text>
<body>
<termEntry id="1">
<langSet xml:lang="es">
<term id="">absenta</term>
<term id="">ajenjo</term>
</langSet>
<langSet xml:lang="en">
<term id="">absinth</term>
<term id="">absinthe</term>
</langSet>
<!-- (...) more langSets for any other languages -->
</termEntry>
<termEntry id="2">
<langSet xml:lang="es">
<term id="">acetificación</term>
</langSet>
<langSet xml:lang="en">
<term id="">acetification</term>
</langSet>
<!-- (...) more langSets for any other languages -->
</termEntry>
</body>
</text>
</martif>
================This is the stylesheet that I use:=========================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- Edited by XMLSpy® -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<!--<xsl:output type="xml"/>-->
<xsl:template match="/">
<martif type="TBX" xml:lang="en">
<text>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="dictionary/records/record">
<termEntry id="{(_at_)num}">
<xsl:if test="term[(_at_)lang='es']">
<langSet xml:lang="es">
<xsl:for-each select="term[(_at_)lang='es']">
<term id="">
<xsl:value-of
select="current()" />
</term>
</xsl:for-each>
</langSet>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="term[(_at_)lang='en']">
<langSet xml:lang="en">
<xsl:for-each select="term[(_at_)lang='en']">
<term id="">
<xsl:value-of
select="current()" />
</term>
</xsl:for-each>
</langSet>
</xsl:if>
<!-- (...) the same for each language (e.g.
ca) -->
</termEntry>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</text>
</martif>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Once again, thank you so much!
Kind regards,
--
Manuel Souto Pico
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