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david mareSubject: flat xml to nested xml comversion trouble
Author: david mare
Date: 29 Oct 2007 08:03 PM
I'm new to XSLT and having trouble with what I think should be pretty simple. I have a fairly flat structured XML file like this:
<root>
<customer>
<name>Fred</name>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
</customer>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>100.00</amount>
</order>
<order>
<ordernum>2</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>200.00</amount>
</order>
<customer>
<name>Bob</name>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
</customer>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
<amount>300.00</amount>
</order>
</root>

As you can see the order nodes are NOT nested within the customer nodes, but are instead related by a common key (customer/acctnum and order/acctnum). The first customer has two orders, the second customer has one order.

I want to transform this so the orders are nested within the customer nodes in a parent/child structure, like this:

<root>
<customer>
<name>Fred</name>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>100.00</amount>
</order>
<order>
<ordernum>2</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>200.00</amount>
</order>
</customer>
<customer>
<name>Bob</name>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
<amount>300.00</amount>
</order>
</customer>
</root>

Here's my XSLT:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<root>
<xsl:for-each select="root/customer">
<customer>
<name>
<xsl:value-of select="name"/>
</name>
<acctnum>
<xsl:value-of select="acctnum"/>
</acctnum>
<xsl:for-each select="../order[acctnum=../customer/acctnum]">
<order>
<ordernum>
<xsl:value-of select="ordernum"/>
</ordernum>
<acctnum>
<xsl:value-of select="acctnum"/>
</acctnum>
<amount>
<xsl:value-of select="amount"/>
</amount>
</order>
</xsl:for-each>
</customer>
</xsl:for-each>
</root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here's the result:

<root>
<customer>
<name>Fred</name>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>100.00</amount>
</order>
<order>
<ordernum>2</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>200.00</amount>
</order>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
<amount>300.00</amount>
</order>
</customer>
<customer>
<name>Bob</name>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>100.00</amount>
</order>
<order>
<ordernum>2</ordernum>
<acctnum>111</acctnum>
<amount>200.00</amount>
</order>
<order>
<ordernum>1</ordernum>
<acctnum>222</acctnum>
<amount>300.00</amount>
</order>
</customer>
</root>

The statement select="../order[acctnum=../customer/acctnum]" is not working correctly. It is giving me all the orders in the file for each customer, not just the orders where the acctnum matches. Is there another way I should be doing this?

many thanks


Documentin.xml
input xml file
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Tony LavinioSubject: flat xml to nested xml comversion trouble
Author: Tony Lavinio
Date: 29 Oct 2007 10:33 PM
This is the classic XSLT grouping problem.

For XSLT 2.0, you can use xsl:for-each-group.
For XSLT 1.0, Jeni Tennison has an excellent set of examples at
http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping/index.xml

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david mareSubject: flat xml to nested xml comversion trouble
Author: david mare
Date: 30 Oct 2007 02:19 AM
many thanks, I'll investigate it...
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david mareSubject: flat xml to nested xml comversion trouble
Author: david mare
Date: 31 Oct 2007 02:40 AM
Many thanks for your suggestion, it was so simple. Here's the resulting xslt:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<root>
<xsl:for-each-group select="root/customer" group-by="acctnum">
<customer>
<name><xsl:value-of select="name"/></name>
<acctnum><xsl:value-of select="acctnum"/></acctnum>
<!-- get all transactions where ordacctnum = saved key -->
<xsl:for-each select="../order[ordacctnum=current-grouping-key()]">
<order>
<ordernum><xsl:value-of select="ordernum"/></ordernum>
<ordacctnum><xsl:value-of select="ordacctnum"/></ordacctnum>
<amount><xsl:value-of select="amount"/></amount>
</order>
</xsl:for-each>
</customer>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Documentflat2nestedgroup.xsl
xslt example of for-each-group
 
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