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Re: XSL transformation

• To: Nischal Muthana <nischal_muthana@y...>
• Subject: Re: XSL transformation
• From: <martin@h...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:27:21 +0000 (GMT)
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <20021120005327.20243.qmail@w...>

Hi Nischal -

write a recursive template:

<xsl:template name="name">
<xsl:param name="data">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($data, ' ')">
<xsl:apply-templates select="substring-before($data, ' ')" mode="Name"/>
<xsl:call-template name="name">
<xsl:with-param name="data" select="substring-after($data, ' ')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$data" mode="Name"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

and put your processing here:

<xsl:template match="text()" mode="Name">
... whatever you want to do with the values
</xsl:template>

this assumes there are no spaces in your values - in that case you will
have to change the substrings, and 'contains()' to check for zero-length
strings.

hth,

/m

Martin Klang
http://www.o-xml.org - the object-oriented XML programming language


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Nischal Muthana wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have an XSL file say NameList.xsl which picks
> transforms an XML file say Names.xml.
>
> The Names.xml is like,
>
> <Name>
>   <Names>aaaa bbbb cccc dddd eeee ffff gggg hhhh iiii
> jjjj kkkk llll mmmm nnnn oooo pppp qqqq rrrr ssss tttt
> uuuu vvvv wwww xxxx yyyy zzzz</FirstNames>
> </Name>
>
> My Xsl file has to pick up the Names node and do a
> substring and pick each value in the <Names> tag. Each
> value is of 4 characters and each value is seperated
> by a space.
>
> I am tryin to write a <xsl:foreach
> select='Name/Names'>
> and then do a substring on the element value. Can
> someone guide me through how to go about with this.
>
> I tried to do
>
> <xsl:value-of select="substring(Name/Names,0,4)"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="substring(Name/Names,4,4)"/>
> ....
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Nischal
>
>
>
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