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Re: Multiple OR Expression across a node-set

  • From: Yves Zoundi <yveszoundi@g...>
  • To: xml-dev@l...
  • Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 19:10:25 -0500

Re:  Multiple OR Expression across a node-set
Maybe you need to replace the or operator you are using('|') by "or".

Good luck

On
Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:17:59 -0800 "Spencer Tickner"
<spencertickner@g...> wrote:

> Hi List,
> 
> Thanks in advance for the help. I think I left my brain in Cuba, and
> cannot seem to figure out this fairly straight forward problem (well
> that and secretly hoping someone has a more elegant way of doing
> this).
> 
> So I have a generated XML
> 
> <root>
>  <view>
>    <id>foo</id>
>    <name>foo</name>
>  </view>
>  <view>
>   <id>bar_archive</id>
>   <name>Bar Archive</name>
>  </view>
>  <view>
>   <id>bar</id>
>   <name>bar</name>
>  </view>
>  <view>
>   <id>foo_archive</id>
>   <name>Foo Archive</name>
>  </view>
> </root>
> 
> Issue comes from the fact that every time I get this XML file, the
> <view>s are in different, random order. I need them in a specific
> order every time. Along with this, sometimes a <view> exists, and
> sometimes it doesn't which should be reflected in the output. So far
> my XSL looks something like this (I've marked where my if statement is
> failing):
> 
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> 
> <html>
> <body>
> <!-- This if statement fails (Value of expression cannot be converted
> to a node-set in expression) -->
> <xsl:if test="root//view/id = 'foo' | root//view/id = 'bar'">
>   <p>Here are the foo bars</p>
>   <ul>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="root//view[id='bar']"/>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="root//view[id='foo']"/>
>   </ul>
> </xsl:if>
> 
> <xsl:if test="contains(root//view/id, 'archive')">
> 	<p>Here are archive foo bars</p>
> 	<blockquote>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="root//view[id = 'bar_archive']"/>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates select="root//view[id = 'foo_archive']"/>
> 	</blockquote>
> </xsl:if>
> 
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="view" priority="5">
> <li><xsl:value-of select="name"/></li>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="view[contains(id, 'archive')]" priority="10">
> <p><xsl:value-of select="name"/></p>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. (PS - I am stuck with 1.0)
> 
> Thanks you,
> 
> Spencer Tickner
> 
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