Hi
Thank you for all your response. I apologize for not providing the
input, I am new to the group and just getting to know it.
Here is the input file:
<list1>
<litem>000</litem>
<list2>
<litem>123 </litem>
<list3>
<litem>ABC</litem>
<litem>666</litem>
</list3>
<!-- now this litem element belongs to list 2-->
<litem> 999 I belong to list 2</litem>
<litem> I belong to list 2</litem>
<list3>
<litem> I belong to the new list 3</litem>
</list3>
<litem> I belong to list 2 again</litem>
<list3>
<litem> another list 3</litem>
<list4>
<litem>222</litem>
</list4>
<!-- I belong to lsit 3 now-->
<litem>333</litem>
</list3>
</list2>
</list1>
Here is my desired output:
<level1>
<text>000</text>
<level2>
<text>
<para>123</para>
</text>
<level3>
<text>
<para>ABC</para>
</text>
</level3>
<level3>
<text>
<para>666</para>
</text>
</level3>
</level2>
<level2>
<text>
<para>999 I belong to list 2</para>
</text>
</level2>
<level2>
<text>
<para>I belong to list 2.</para>
</text>
<level3>
<text>
<para>I belong to the new list 3list 3.</para>
</text>
</level3>
</level2>
<level2>
<text>
<para>I belong to list 2 again</para>
</text>
<level3>
<text>
<para>another list 3</para>
</text>
<level4 id="S022496B8">
<text>
<para>222</para>
</text>
</level4>
</level3>
</level2>
</level1>
The idea is that every 'litem' element counts as a 'levelX'.
Here is what I wrote:
<xsl:template match="litem">
<level1>
<text>
<para>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</para>
</text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list2/litem"/>
</level1>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="list2/litem">
<level2>
<text>
<para>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</para>
</text>
</level2>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list3/litem"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="list3/litem">
<level3>
<text>
<para>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</para>
</text>
</level3>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list4/litem"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="list4/litem">
<level4>
<text>
<para>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</para>
</text>
</level4>
</xsl:template>
This is running into a continuous list level intead of opening and
closing list levels approriately.
What am I doing wrong here?
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Wendell
Piez<wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi,
Also, as an earlier respondent noticed, it's impossible to answer this
question without specifying the source data on which the stylesheet must
operate.
The confusing thing is that the OP spoke of having to generate nested
structures, but the templates in his code matched structures with the same
names as his presumed output.
So which is it: generating nested structures from some (unstated) input, or
processing nested structures -- or mapping one nested structure to another?
Any of these may be trivially easy in XSLT, but they aren't the same.
Following the list guidelines and providing illustrations of both source and
intended result would be a big help here.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 07:05 PM 7/23/2009, Mike wrote:
The trick is to make sure that the first list3 gets closed
after <list4> , and a new <list3> opens after the first closes.
It's too late at night for me to understand your problem, but this
sentence
sounds as if you're approaching it from the wrong angle.
Don't think in terms of opening and closing elements. Think in terms of
constructing a tree of nodes. Writing an element is an atomic operation,
it
isn't two separate operations to write the start and end tags. Draw the
result tree you want to produce on a scrap of paper - as a tree - and keep
it in front of you while coding; don't think about the serialized XML
output.
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