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Shane Garringer

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Shane Garringer
Date: 17 Dec 2005 12:05 PM

I am trying to map MS Word 2003 schema to the same targer schema. The reason for this is to translate one MS Word xml file to the same format without a couple of the nodes. The problem I am running into is that the 'frameSet node is recursive. I don't know how to map this, as dragging a line from one node to the other is an endless loop with the recursion. Any help with this would greatly be appreciated. I have attached the wordnet.xsd and its import xsd's

Thanks,

Shane

wordnet.xsd
word 2003 scema

aml.xsd
import xsd

office.xsd
imort xsd

vml.xsd
import xsd

w10.xsd
import xsd

wordnetaux.xsd
import xsd

xsdlib.xsd
import xsd

Minollo I.

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 18 Dec 2005 12:16 AM

Would a copy of the recursive node work? In that case in mapper just drag&drop the node using the right button of the mouse and choose "Create copy link".

Minollo

Shane Garringer

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Shane Garringer
Date: 18 Dec 2005 07:17 PM

I honestly don't know if that would work. i don't have enough experience with xml or xslt to know exactly what I need to do. All I know is, I need to create an XSLT document that I can use to take one word 2003 xml document and translate it to another word 2003 xml document. Their are only a couple elements I don't want to get copied over to the new document. Will the copy you stated do that?

Minollo I.

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 18 Dec 2005 09:37 PM

Actually, as you posted in "XQuery Help and Discussion" I was assuming that you were trying to solve your problem using XQuery... And I was suggesting that you could use the copy link (that is also available in XSLT, implemented as a xsl:copy-of) to take care of the recursive node - assuming that all children of the recursive node should be copied.

Anyway, another way to do what you are trying to do using XSLT would be to create a <xsl:template match="*"> that matches on all elements, and then inside such template copy the element and attributes if it's an element that should be copied, and move on apply templates on children.

Something like this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:if test="name() != 'badElem1' and name() != 'badElem2'">
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helps,
Minollo

Shane Garringer

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Shane Garringer
Date: 18 Dec 2005 10:59 PM

Thanks for the help, but I still am not getting what I need. i sued your code above, and it gets the attributes of the root level, but I cant figure out how to move on to the child elements.

code:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core" xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core" xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select=""/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:if test="name() != w:docOleData"> //don't copy this element
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

results:

<w:wordDocument xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core" xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core" xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" w:macrosPresent="yes" w:embeddedObjPresent="yes" w:ocxPresent="no" xml:space="preserve"/>

Minollo I.

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 18 Dec 2005 11:22 PM

Actually if the code you are running is exactly what you posted here, I'm surprised you get any output at all (not the missing single quotes around w:docOleData! And the "//" comment, is not a comment... it will copied verbatim to the output)

Try using this; it works fine for me:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:w="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:w10="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns:sl="http://schemas.microsoft.com/schemaLibrary/2003/core" xmlns:aml="http://schemas.microsoft.com/aml/2001/core" xmlns:wx="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/auxHint" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:if test="name() != 'w:docOleData'"> 
<xsl:element name="{name()}">
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Shane Garringer

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Shane Garringer
Date: 18 Dec 2005 11:35 PM

Wooo Hooo, that works magnificently!! Now, one more question. the first attributes in the wordDocument. (i.e macrosPresent) I would like to just set them to no. Can this be done using the code you gave me? I know you can just right click the element and set the text for this, but when I do that after i have pasted your code in there, it screams at me about 'w' not being mapped to any URI??

Minollo I.

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 18 Dec 2005 11:44 PM

The code I sent you uses a logic completely different from what mapper understands. You won't be able to do much with mapper starting from it.

If you want to change values to attributes based on some logic, you can do something like this:

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:variable name="elementName">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="$elementName != 'w:docOleData'">

<xsl:element name="{$elementName}">
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name() = 'w:macrosPresent' and $elementName = 'w:wordDocument'">
<xsl:value-of select="'no'"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Shane Garringer

Subject: How to map a recursive node?
Author: Shane Garringer
Date: 18 Dec 2005 11:51 PM

beautiful!! just beautiful!! thanks you!!

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