Re: Copying and transforming/Recursion?

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Subject: Re: Copying and transforming/Recursion?
From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:45:41 -0400

At 02:45 PM 10/10/2000 -0400, Jeff Saylor wrote:

Starting with:

  <xml>
    <submittedValues>
      <submittedValue fieldname='title'>mr.</submittedValue>
    </submittedValues>

    <display>
      <p>
        title:<input type='text' fieldname='title' value=''/>
      </p>
    </display>
  </xml>

Effectively, I want to use the <submittedValue>'s text with the matching (by
@fieldname) <display>'s <input> to get:

  <display>
    <p>
      title:<input type='text' fieldname='title' value='mr.' />
    </p>
  </display>

Well, it's hard to generalize from a small XML doc. But if all your submittedValues and display elements follow this regular pattern, this should work:

<xsl:template match="xml_root"> <xsl:for-each select="submittedValues/submittedValue"> <xsl:if test="./@fieldname=../following-sibling::*//input/@fieldname"> <display> <p>title: <input type="text" fieldname="{@fieldname}"> <xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute> </input> </p> </display> </xsl:if> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template>

(Btw, I changed the name of your root "xml" element to "xml_root." I didn't know if you really meant for an element to be called "xml" but if so, it offended what few purist sensibilities I still have. :)

Looks okay in IE5 (Sept. '00 release), and Saxon outputs:

<display>
    <p>title:
        <input type="text" fieldname="title" value="mr.">
    </p>
</display>

this involves outputting the <display> tag, and its contents, while
selectively transforming an element within them - I can not figure out a way
to do this.  I am thinking copy-of and recursive templates would do the
trick, but I can't get a grasp on how to do it...

Sorry, I didn't use copy-of or recursive templates!

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Copying and transforming/Recursion? Jeff Saylor - Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:45:02 -0400 John E. Simpson - Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:45:41 -0400 <= <Possible follow-ups> sara . mitchell - Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:21:20 -0400 Kay Michael - Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:28:36 +0100 Kay Michael - Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:33:02 +0100 John E. Simpson - Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:11:27 -0400

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