Re: XSL-List Digest V4 #1511

>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:14:55 +0100
>From: "Andrew Welch" <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE:  testing which files have same element/@code
>
>> What I want to do is given a @code as an xsl:param or variable
>> look through each file in filelist.xml to produce a list of
>> those files which contain a @code that matches, outputting
>> something like say an html form (assuming file3.xml doesn't contain
>> a bar/@code='124')
>
>Well you *could* do this in xslt using the the document() function, but
>building a dom each time just to check for the occurance of attribute
>would be really wasteful.
>
>I would SAX parse your filelist.xml to obtain your list of files.  Then
>SAX parse each of thoes files in turn to find the ones with the matching
>@code.
>
>Once you have a list of matching files, use JDOM or David Megginson's
>xmlWriter (or preferrably generate SAX events directly from the java
>list, as I mentioned in the previous post) to create the XML of matching
>files.  Then style that with your stylesheet.
>
>Of coure, you could just write the html directly from your java
>list-of-matching-files, but as this is the xsl-list and that technique
>goes against the whole separation-of-content-from-style idea, you don't
>want to do that :)

Thanks for your suggestions.  I know very little about java and so don't
really see writing things in it as a possibility.  Given that this will
be used inside apache's Cocoon, it sounds like probably the best way.
Any suggestions on SAX parsing in Cocoon?

Horribly out of his depth,
-James

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