Thanks Martin, Andrew, and Michael! My goodness, you're quick!
Quite how you expected this to work when your code references neither the
@id nor @conref attributes defeats me.
You're right, of course, Michael. That was a careless mistake. The
xsl:if and xsl:choose statements I tried earlier did reference the @id
and @conref attributes, but I apparently either constructed them or
placed them incorrectly.
Off to read about keys.
Thanks again,
Mark
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
wrote:
Replace
<xsl:value-of
select="document('navigation-labels.xml')/topic/body/p/uicontrol[document('n
avigation-labels.xml')/topic/body/p/uicontrol
= .]"/>
by
<xsl:value-of
select="document('navigation-labels.xml')/topic/body/p/uicontrol[(_at_)id =
current()/@conref]"/>
Quite how you expected this to work when your code references neither the
@id nor @conref attributes defeats me.
It would be more efficient, and perhaps clearer, to use a key - but get it
working first.
Michael Kay
http:/www.saxonica.com/
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From: Mark Peters [mailto:flickrmeister(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 07 April 2009 14:15
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Replacing values in the input file with values
from a second file
Hi Everyone,
I have a seemingly simple transformation project, but there
is a piece of the puzzle that I'm missing. Maybe the solution
isn't so simple, after all. :-)
Here is my input file.
<topic id="A">
<title>Menus</title>
<topic id="AB">
<title>Menu AB Details</title>
<body>
<p id="AB1">
<uicontrol conref="AB1a"/>
</p>
<p id="AB2">
<uicontrol conref="AB2a"/>
<uicontrol conref="AB2b"/>
</p>
</body>
</topic>
</topic>
For each uicontrol element, I'd like to substitute the
element value in a second file, whose id attribute value
corresponds to the conref value in the first file.
Here is the second file (navigation-labels.xml):
<topic id ="navigation-labels">
<title>Navigation Labels</title>
<body>
<p><uicontrol id="AB1a">Oranges</uicontrol></p>
<p><uicontrol id="AB2a">Apples</uicontrol></p>
<p><uicontrol id="AB3b">Bananas</uicontrol></p>
</body>
</topic>
Here is the output I'm trying to produce:
<topic id="A">
<title>Menus</title>
<topic id="AB">
<title>Menu AB Details</title>
<body>
<p id="AB1">
<uicontrol>Oranges</uicontrol>
</p>
<p id="AB2">
<uicontrol>Apples</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>Bananas</uicontrol>
</p>
</body>
</topic>
</topic>
I've tried if statements and choose statements. Here is my
current transformation.
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="uicontrol">
<uicontrol>
<xsl:value-of
select="document('navigation-labels.xml')/topic/body/p/uicontr
ol[document('navigation-labels.xml')/topic/body/p/uicontrol
= .]"/>
</uicontrol>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
And here is the current output. For each uicontrol element,
the transformation is substituting the first uicontrol
element value in the navigation-labels.xml file, rather than
the value from the corresponding uicontrol element.
<topic id="A">
<title>Menus</title>
<topic id="AB">
<title>Menu AB Details</title>
<body>
<p id="AB1">
<uicontrol>Oranges</uicontrol>
</p>
<p id="AB2">
<uicontrol>Oranges</uicontrol>
<uicontrol>Oranges</uicontrol>
</p>
</body>
</topic>
</topic>
Thanks in advance for any help!
Mark
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Senior Technical Writer
Saba Software
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