multipass processing in XSLT 2.0
Larry Sulky
<indoc>
<heading>Aaaa aaaa</heading>
<p y="34" x="22">Iiii iiii.</p>
<p y="11" x="56">Jjjj jjjj.</p>
<p y="93" x="70">Kkkk kkkk.</p>
<z>Ssss ssss.</z>
</indoc>
into this:
<OUTDOC>
<HEADER A="70" B="93">Aaaa aaaa</HEADER>
<ZED>Ssss ssss.</ZED>
<PARA>Iiii iiii.</PARA>
<PARA>Jjjj jjjj.</PARA>
<PARA>Kkkk kkkk.</PARA>
</OUTDOC>
I've got a mix of elements and attributes, changing places and owners.
Also need to pick up an attribute value on the last <p> element and
use it up at the top of the output stream. But I'm finding it
difficult to find examples of XSLT 2.0 multipass processing, only
assurances that it's much easier than in 1.0. Can anyone here do a
quick 2.0 transform that I could then use as a model for this kind of
task generally? I would be very appreciative. Thanks --
---larry
Martin Honnen
Why do you think you need multiple passes? It can be easily solved with
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="indoc">
<OUTDOC>
<xsl:apply-templates select="heading, z, p"/>
</OUTDOC>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="heading">
<HEADER A="{following-sibling::p[last()]/@x}"
B="{following-sibling::p[last()]/@y}">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</HEADER>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="z">
<ZED>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</ZED>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">
<PARA>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</PARA>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
As for multiple passes in XSLT 2.0, if you want to do that in one
stylesheet then process something into a variable and then process the
nodes in that variable e.g.
<xsl:template match="foo">
<xsl:variable name="temp-result">
<bar>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</bar>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$temp-result/bar"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="bar">
...
</xsl:template>
--
Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
Larry Sulky
that I was missing. I really appreciate it!
---larry