RE: XSL Transformation

Hi Jim,

There are many ways to do this.

>From my point of view, the goal would be to make this portable to other
alphabets.  A kind of unique way might be to put a little look-up table in
your stylesheet (it would be even better to refer to an external file, but
the concept is still sort of the same):

So if you put this at the stylesheet level:

<xsl:param name="letters">
 <alphabet-char character="A"/>
 <alphabet-char character="B"/>
 <alphabet-char character="C"/>
 <alphabet-char character="D"/>
 <alphabet-char character="E"/>
 <alphabet-char character="F"/>
 <alphabet-char character="G"/>
 <alphabet-char character="H"/>
 <alphabet-char character="I"/>
 <alphabet-char character="J"/>
 <alphabet-char character="K"/>
 <alphabet-char character="L"/>
 <alphabet-char character="M"/>
 <alphabet-char character="N"/>
 <alphabet-char character="O"/>
 <alphabet-char character="P"/>
 <alphabet-char character="Q"/>
 <alphabet-char character="R"/>
 <alphabet-char character="S"/>
 <alphabet-char character="T"/>
 <alphabet-char character="U"/>
 <alphabet-char character="V"/>
 <alphabet-char character="W"/>
 <alphabet-char character="X"/>
 <alphabet-char character="Y"/>
 <alphabet-char character="Z"/>
</xsl:param>

Where the character attribute could be substituted for any character set,
you could then make use of the document('') function to get your desired
results, something like this:

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:variable name="terms">
  <xsl:copy-of select="XML" />
 </xsl:variable>
 <letters>
  <xsl:for-each select="document('')/*/xsl:param/alphabet-char">
   <xsl:variable name="term-letter" select="@character" />
    <xsl:for-each select="$terms">
     <keyword letter="{$term-letter}">
       <xsl:for-each select="*/*[starts-with(@Keyword,$term-letter)]">
         <term>
           <name><xsl:copy-of select="@Keyword" /></name>
           <id><xsl:copy-of select="@Key_ID" /></id>
           <definition><xsl:copy-of select="@Description" /></definition>
           <status><xsl:copy-of select="@Status" /></status>
         </term>
       </xsl:for-each>
     </keyword>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:for-each>
 </letters>
</xsl:template>

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Han [mailto:jhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 9:19 AM
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  XSL Transformation


I've trying to work on this XSL transformation but I am running into a wall.
Can some help me get started?

I need an xsl to conver this xml:

<XML>
	<row Key_ID="2" Keyword="A-10" Description="A-10 Warthog ARF w/
Ducted Fans" Status="active"/>
	<row Key_ID="3" Keyword="Aerobird Challenger" Description="Aerobird
Challenger RTF   " Status="active"/>
	<row Key_ID="5" Keyword="CARISMA" Description="CARISMA R/C CARS"
Status="active"/>
	<row Key_ID="4" Keyword="Mech Warrior" Description="Mech Warrior:
Fire For Effect Booster Pack   " Status="active"/>
	<row Key_ID="1" Keyword="Mini-T" Description="Mini-T RTR 1/18-Scale
Off-Road Truck" Status="active"/>
</XML>


To:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Keywords xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
	<Keyword Letter="A">
		<Term>
			<Id>2</Id>
			<Name>A-10</Name>
			<Definition>A-10 Warthog ARF w/ Ducted
Fans.</Definition>
			<status>active</status>
		</Term>
		<Term>
			<Id>3</Id>
			<Name>Aerobird Challenger</Name>
			<Definition>Aerobird Challenger RTF..</Definition>
			<status>active</status>
		</Term>
	</Keyword>
	<Keyword Letter="B">
	</Keyword>
	<Keyword Letter="C">
		<Term>
			<Id>5</Id>
			<Name>CARISMA</Name>
			<Definition>CARISMA R/C CARS</Definition>
			<status>active</status>
		</Term>
	</Keyword>
	<Keyword Letter="D"/>
	<Keyword Letter="E"/>
	<Keyword Letter="F"/>
	<Keyword Letter="G"/>
	<Keyword Letter="H"/>
	<Keyword Letter="I"/>
	<Keyword Letter="J"/>
	<Keyword Letter="K"/>
	<Keyword Letter="L"/>
	<Keyword Letter="M">
		<Term>
			<Id>4</Id>
			<Name>Mech Warrior</Name>
			<Definition>Mech Warrior: Fire For Effect Booster
Pack</Definition>
			<status>active</status>
		</Term>
		<Term>
			<Id>1</Id>
			<Name>Mini-T</Name>
			<Definition>Mini-T RTR 1/18-Scale Off-Road
Truck</Definition>
			<status>active</status>
		</Term>
	</Keyword>
	<Keyword Letter="N"/>
	<Keyword Letter="O"/>
	<Keyword Letter="P"/>
	<Keyword Letter="Q"/>
	<Keyword Letter="R"/>
	<Keyword Letter="S"/>
	<Keyword Letter="T"/>
	<Keyword Letter="U"/>
	<Keyword Letter="V"/>
	<Keyword Letter="W"/>
	<Keyword Letter="X"/>
	<Keyword Letter="Y"/>
	<Keyword Letter="Z"/>
</Keywords>






Jim 


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