Re: Getting Entity File Names

I am able to get a list of the titles without
a problem.  I want to build a table from the
titles and file name so I can create another
conversion on another group of documents have
have the titles embedded and link back to the
individual files which are well-formed.

I want to get a listing such as:

<filename>foo1.xml</filename> <title>This is a title</title>

I want to use this to put links into another document:

<p>... see <xref href="foo1.xml">This is a title</xref><p>

I am grabbing the entity filename and title as a way of
including links in another document (which I can change).

I actually did this once before with a file that had IDs and it was a
really simple process. I created an Omnimark script from the XSLT since
XSLT isn't the best 'search and replace' program. I was hoping to do the
same thing this time but without ID's it is proving difficult.

Betty

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Wendell Piez wrote:

> Betty,
> 
> If the title within each file is in the same place every time (or even if 
> not), you can retrieve it by adapting the method David showed:
> 
> document('',$node)/*/title
> 
> will get you the title element children of the document element of the file 
> containing $node.
> 
> I don't know how far that gets you, however. But it shouldn't be hard to 
> build a lookup table to get from this title (assuming it's unique) to a 
> file name or some such.
> 
> Note that this also assumes each file is a complete well-formed XML 
> document, not merely a parsed entity (which can have more than one 
> top-level element).
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 02:29 PM 10/23/2003, you wrote:
> >Thanks!  I think I will have to use XSLT 2 or another language.  I am
> >building a key for another document to point to locations in the external
> >document.
> >
> >The data files don't belong to me so I have to point to information within
> >the full document without the advantage of ID's.  The only thing that
> >really makes the data unique is the filenames and the titles within each
> >file of the entities.
> 
> 
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