Re: equivalent for 'while'

<TOP id="1000" name="Thing">
<DEFCONCEPT id="10180" name="Pain">
       <PARENT>
           <CONCEPT name="ExternalStimulusSensation" ref="10181"/>
       </PARENT>
       <CHILD>
           <CONCEPT name="HeadPain" ref="10235"/>
       </CHILD>
</DEFCONCEPT>

<DEFCONCEPT id="10235" name="HeadPain">
       <PARENT>
           <CONCEPT name="Pain" ref="10180"/>
       </PARENT>
       <CHILD>
           <CONCEPT name="Headache" ref="10279"/>
       </CHILD>
</DEFCONCEPT>

 <DEFCONCEPT id="10279" name="Headache">
       <PARENT>
           <CONCEPT name="HeadPain" ref="10235"/>
       </PARENT>
 </DEFCONCEPT>

Regards
Rahil

I do some similar things (such as combining child elements based on the presence of a parent element in two documents) in some of my XSL, so perhaps I can help.

Please prepare a small but representative sample of the two documents you want to compare, insert them into a message (the list does not take attachments - a good thing, in my opinion), and identify which items you want to compare/verify. Please keep the XML documents as small as possible (complete but just enough to show the problem).

Thanks.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)

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Re:  equivalent for 'while'

Hi David and Michael


I feel rather silly but Ive tried out both your <xsl:for-each> statements and they dont seem to work for me. I dont really know what the cause is coz I've tried checking other dependencies and they're working fine.

My problem really is trying to interact between two XML documents. I need to determine whether the top-level element of XML doc 1 is present in XML doc 2 (which I've done). I then need to determine whether the defining sub-element of the top-level element in doc 1 is also present in XML doc 2 (this part is becoming a nightmare for me).

For e.g. I have a top-level element 'Pain' and a sub-element (instance of Pain) viz. 'Headache' in XML doc 1. I want to check whether 'Pain' exists in XML doc 2 and whether it has a child (or grandchild) named 'Headache' as well. If it does then I'll proceed to extract other bits which have been said about 'headache' in XML doc 2.

I'm seriously stuck with this problem and one of the main reasons is my background in procedural programming. I could probably have done this bit using Java in 5mins but its taking me forever to get it done in XSLT. But I want to use XSLT as its a very powerful language and will ultimately be the best choice for my requirements.

Would sincerely appreciate your help.

Thanks
Rahil

Michael Kay wrote:

Don't think in terms of the the program processing the first element,

then

the second, and so on, in a time-ordered manner. Rather, describe the set

of

elements that you want to be processed: that is, preceding-siblings of

the

DEFCONCEPT named "abcGrandChild":

<xsl:for-each
select="DEFCONCEPT[name="abcGrandChild"]/preceding-sibling::DEFCONCEPT"

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/