RE: Need advise on filtering XSL

> -----Original Message-----
> From:     "Stanger, Jan" <jan.stanger@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent:     Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:38:42 +0100
> To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:   Need advise on filtering XSL
>
> Hello all! This is my first post and unfortunately quite a big 
> one as well. I am looking at the following XSL that has been
> written by someone else and am trying to understand certain parts
> of it. First and foremost, as you can see in the comments the 
> output method has been set to text so that < and > would be treated
> properly. Elsewhere I have read that this is not a recommended way 
> of creating an output XML. Also, both for-each loops in the center
> are taking very long for huge XML input documents. Is there
> anything that can be made more efficient? Since the output XML 
> will be identical in structure to the input one, I thought it
> would be possible to use <xsl:copy-of select="."/> in the two
> template match functions at the bottom, but it did not work
> correctly.

Here is a stylesheet which produces what I think you want. I can't speak to the question of speed, since I don't know what your expectations are, nor do I know anything about your input file size, processor, RAM, etc.

I first had to properly close the "ColumnMetaData" elements to get a well-formed XML document. I think you will find this a simpler approach, and I'd be interested to hear if it speeds things up at all.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0" xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan" exclude-result-prefixes="xalan">
  <xsl:strip-space elements="DataSet ResultSet ResultSetMetaData DataRow column"/>

  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
  <xsl:param name="filterstmt" select="'ALL'"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="DataSet">
    <xsl:element name="DataSet">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="ResultSetMetaData">
    <xsl:element name="ResultSetMetaData">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="ColumnMetaData">
    <xsl:element name="ColumnMetaData">
      <xsl:attribute name="dtype"><xsl:value-of select="@dtype" /></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="DataRow">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$filterstmt='ALL'">
        <xsl:copy-of select="." />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:copy-of select="xalan:evaluate($filterstmt)" />
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="node()|@*" />

</xsl:stylesheet>

-- 
Charles Knell
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