RE: XPath weirdness!!

Ok, I'm not sure exactly what you're doing here (It seems that it would be
easier to select the Buffer elements in a template and the process the Point
elements from there but assuming that there is a reason for doing the
choose, try this:

<xsl:template match="SpatialQuery">
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="Buffer">
   <MULTIPOINT>
   <xsl:for-each select="Buffer/Point">
    <POINT x="{@x}" y="{@y}"/>
   </xsl:for-each>
   </MULTIPOINT>
  </xsl:when>
 </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

you still shouldn't be using the "//" operator, though...  In my for-each
you are getting a RTF with the point elements under the current node.  If
you do 'for-each select="//Point"', you will be getting *EVERY* Point
element in the source document (see about a million posts from Mike Kay
regarding this).

I hope this helps out some...

Steve Crowers
Software Engineer


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-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Kolodziej [mailto:kkolodziej@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:02 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XPath weirdness!!


OK. I hope I can be more clear with this email.

Here is part of my XML source:
<Query>
  <SpatialQuery>
   <Buffer distance="100" units="miles">
    <Point x="-122.5281" y="37.635" />
    <Point x="-122.4521" y="37.700" />
    <Point x="-122.4000" y="37.750" />
    <Point x="-122.3100" y="37.820" />
   </Buffer>
  </SpatialQuery>
 </Query>

I want this part of the output to be:
 <MULTIPOINT>
       <POINT x="-122.5281" y="37.635" />
       <POINT x="-122.4521" y="37.700" />
       <POINT x="-122.4000" y="37.750" />
       <POINT x="-122.3100" y="37.820" />
</MULTIPOINT>


This is part of the XSL that I am using to transform the above:
<xsl:when test="//SpatialQuery/Buffer">
<!-- I need the "//" to get back the <MULTIPOINT> and <POINT> tags -->
   <MULTIPOINT>
          <xsl:for-each select="//Point">
                <POINT>
                <xsl:attribute name="x">
                        <xsl:value-of select="//@x"/>  <!--
THIS GIVES ME THE "X" values -->
                </xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:attribute name="y">
                        <xsl:value-of select="/@y"/>   <!-- HERE IF I USE
"//@y" I GET THE "

&x#3c" ERROR -->
                </xsl:attribute>
               </POINT>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </MULTIPOINT>
</xsl:when>


Julian Reschke wrote:

> I'm not sure what the problem that reported is... But:
>
> *why* are you using the // syntax at all?
>
> "//@y" finds *all* attributes named "y" in the document, and then returns
> the text value of the first one (AFAIK). Is this *really* what you want?
>
> If you clearly describe what you source format is and which output you
need,
> people on the list will be able to suggest much better (and faster) XSLT
> code...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kris
> > Kolodziej
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 7:14 PM
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  XPath weirdness!!
> >
> >
> > This is related to my previous problem with the "&x#3c." So I figured
> > out that I was doing something wrong with the XPath locations...However,
> > now I am experiencing some weird things with XPath. Take the following
> > example for instance:
> >
> > This works but it only give me the "x" value (and I sure do want to get
> > both x AND y).
> > Notice that for "y" I only have "/@y". This is because when I do the
> > same thing as I did for "x" (meaning writing   "<xsl:value-of
> > select="//@y"/>" )  I get the "&x#3c" error!!! WHY??!
> >
> >
> >  <xsl:when test="//SpatialQuery/Buffer">
> >    <MULTIPOINT>
> >           <xsl:for-each select="//Point">
> >                 <POINT>
> >                 <xsl:attribute name="x">
> >                         <xsl:value-of select="//@x"/>
> >                 </xsl:attribute>
> >                 <xsl:attribute name="y">
> >                         <xsl:value-of select="/@y"/>
> >                 </xsl:attribute>
> >                </POINT>
> >         </xsl:for-each>
> >     </MULTIPOINT>
> >
> >
> > It also works when I do the vice versa of what I have ("/@x" and "//@y")
> > but I can't have it written the same way.
> >
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> >
>
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