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Subject: Re: XSL resources - Flat to hierarchy - Common ancestors
From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:06:16 -0600
templates for menus
Hey Ben,

Ben Simkins wrote:
Three questions in one mail:
1. Does anyone know of a public 'knowledgebase' type site where there
are lots of examples of solutions to different problems, classified in a
way which avoids spending hours trawling through threads?

Yep... Dave Pawson maintains such a site and can be found at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/index.html

2. Transforming 'flat' structures to hierarchies: I've adapted a stylesheet found in this list, for creating the hierarchy
of this:
<Menus>
<Menu MenuId="58" MenuName="LeftMenu"/>
<Menu MenuId="1" MenuParentId="58" MenuName="Home"/>
<Menu MenuId="60" MenuParentId="1" MenuName="About us/>
...etc
</Menus>


The xsl looks like this:
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="Menus"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Menus">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="Menu[not(@MenuParentId)]">
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Menu">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../Menu[@MenuParentId =
current()/@MenuId]"/> </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>


Question: is there any way of also adding the numbering (<xsl:number
level="multiple" format="1.1"/>) directly, or do I have to run the
output through a second stylesheet?

Wrap the first apply-templates into a variable, use your processors node-set() function (see your processors documentation on how to implment this) to convert the result into a node-set and then apply-templates or for-each through the resulting node-set using <xsl:number/> to accomplish the task


<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="menus"
<xsl:apply-templates select="Menus"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:for-each select="exsl:node-set($menus)">
<!-- change the namespace and syntax for the node-set function above specific to the what the docs tell you for your processor - dont forget to declare the namespace in the xsl:stylesheet element! -->
<xsl:number/>
.. whatever else you want to output from each node
.. you'll obviously need to modify this to fit your
.. needs but this is the general idea
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

3. Given the hierarchical output from 2, I would like to extract all nodes which are children of any of the ancestors of the node with a given MenuId (including that node itself) Expressed otherwise: the children, siblings, ancestors, uncles and great-uncles, great-great-uncles (etc) of the given node. Expressed otherwise: all Menus where MenuParentId IN (MenuIds of a given node and all of its ancestors)

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

<xsl:template match="Menu">
<xsl:variable name="MenuId" select="@MenuId"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="ancestor-or-self::Menu[@MenuId = $MenuId]" mode="MenuId">
<xsl:with-param name="MenuId" select="$MenuId" />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="Menu" mode="MenuId">
<xsl:param name="MenuId"/>
... output what you want here ...
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[@MenuId = $MenuId]" mode="MenuId">
	<xsl:with-param name="MenuId" select="$MenuId"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

Untested, but this is the general idea...

Im in the middle of some other code but as soon as I have a chance I will test this and see if there are any blaring mistakes and respond back if yes...

Best of luck!

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Many thanks for any answers received


Ben Simkins

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