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Set up your criteria file like this: <criteria> <category grade="1"> <criterion>country != 'USA'</criterion> <criterion>age > 20 and age < 25</criterion> <criterion>occupation = "doctor" or occupation = "engineer"</criterion> </category > <category grade="2"> <criterion>country = 'UK'</criterion> <criterion>age < 50</criterion> <criterion>occupation = "dentist"</criterion> </category > </criteria> This is probably as easy for your users to edit as anything is likely to be. Write a stylesheet that transforms this file into a stylesheet containing code such <xsl:template match="Employee [country != 'USA'] [age > 20 and age < 25] [occupation = 'doctor' or occupation = 'engineer']"> <p>Grade 1</p> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="Employee [country = 'UK'] [age < 50] [occupation = 'dentist']"> <p>Grade 2</p> </xsl:template> Then run this generated stylesheet against your source XML file. Michael Kay Software AG home: Michael.H.Kay@n... work: Michael.Kay@s... > -----Original Message----- > From: Nischal Muthana [mailto:nischal_muthana@y...] > Sent: 06 June 2002 19:39 > To: michael.h.kay@n...; xml-dev@l... > Subject: RE: Building Complex XML > > > Mike > > Thanks for the Reply. > > >What you could do is to process the criteria > > file by transforming > > it into an XSLT stylesheet and then executing that stylesheet. > > If I undestand you correctly, you mean to say you want > me to build an XSLT stylesheet which contains all of > the criteria table. And then apply on the XML source. > But dont you think doing this would make the user's > life difficult in editing the criteria's whenever he > wants to. > > And moreover can any of you provide any links to the > XSLT resources and would more appreicate if you can > pass any samples or links to resources for the above requirement. > > Thanks > Nischal > > --- Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...> wrote: > > This is an interesting one. Turning your criteria > > into XPath expressions > > and storing them in an XML file is the right thing > > to do and isn't > > difficult. Processing these using XSLT is a little > > tricky, though, > > because it doesn't currently handle XPath > > expressions read from a source > > file. What you could do is to process the criteria > > file by transforming > > it into an XSLT stylesheet and then executing that stylesheet. > > > > Michael Kay > > Software AG > > home: Michael.H.Kay@n... > > work: Michael.Kay@s... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Nischal Muthana > > [mailto:nischal_muthana@y...] > > > Sent: 06 June 2002 18:08 > > > To: xml-dev@l... > > > Subject: Building Complex XML > > > > > > > > > Hello All > > > > > > I have an XML file with > > <country>,<Age>,<Occupation> > > > tags and other tags. > > > > > > I have a criteria table for eg. like the > > following: > > > > > > Decision Element Grade1 > > > Grade2 Grade3 > > > Country Not equal to USA Not equal to > > > USA and UK > > > Equal to USA and UK > > > Age 20,21,22,23,24 or 25 48,49,50,51,52 or > > 53 > > > All 50 othere than 51,54 > > > Occupatioin Engineer or Doctor Lawyer > > or > > > Cop Student or Worker > > > > > > I have a C# class which is gonna check the above > > > conditions and makes sure the XML fulfills all of > > the > > > conditions in any of the Grade and returns the > > appropriate Grade. > > > > > > So for eg. if my XML contains > > > > > > <Country>USA</Country> > > > <Age>53</Age> > > > <Occupation>Student</Occupation> > > > > > > I would then return Grade3. > > > > > > Everything works like a charm until here. But the > > user > > > came up with a proposal that he should be able to > > edit > > > this criterion table frequently. So we thought we > > > would implement this also as an XML file. > > > > > > Can someone please help me in goin about with > > this. > > > > > > Thanks > > > Nischal > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do You Yahoo!? > > > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
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