Re: change a list of attribute name

Great :)  Thanks for the tip.  This solution would
leave the XSL to be free of this mapping clutter.  I
will experiment with the approach this weekend.

Much thanks,
Xiaocun

--- Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Xiaocun,
> 
> > I failed to show the more complicated case where
> "Organization
> > Unique ID" need to be transformed into
> "OrganizationCode". There
> > isn't a set rule to transform from one to another.
> So I am looking
> > for a more general solution where one set of
> values can be mapped to
> > another set.
> 
> Oh right. I was confused by the fact that you said
> you were
> *generating* the node set of new node names - I
> thought you meant that
> you were generating the new node names on the fly,
> not that they were
> static. In that case I'd probably use a document
> holding the mapping
> information for those that had non-standard maps,
> have something like
> map.xml:
> 
> <maps>
>   <map value="Organization Unique ID"
> name="OrganizationCode" />
>   ...
> </maps>
> 
> Hold that document in a variable:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="maps"
> select="document('map.xml')" />
> 
> Define a key that indexed the names by the values
> that should be
> converted into those names:
> 
> <xsl:key name="maps" match="map/@name"
> use="../@value" />
> 
> And then do something similar to what I said before:
> 
>   <xsl:for-each select="$header/cell">
>     <xsl:variable name="value" select="." />
>     <xsl:variable name="attrName">
>        <xsl:for-each select="$maps">
>          <xsl:variable name="mapName"
> select="key('maps', $value)" />
>          <xsl:value-of select="$mapName" />
>          <xsl:if test="not($mapName)">
>            <xsl:value-of select="translate($value, '
> ', '')" />
>          </xsl:if>
>        </xsl:for-each>
>     </xsl:variable>
>     <xsl:attribute name="{$attrName}">
>       ...
>     </xsl:attribute>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> 
> There's no need to use a node-set() extension
> function if you access
> the information about the non-standard names using
> the document()
> function.
>   
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
> 
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