Re: Associative Arrays and XSLT ?

Aahhhh, okay, I understand what your doing from
the snippet of code below. Merci. I must admit,
being a perl programmer first and foremost, I am
somewhat used to the whole 'associative arrays'
being in the language, but, this works for me as
well. 

Kudos
Stef

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 04:17:24PM +0000, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> > 	Sorry for the (stupid ?) question, however, is there any
> > provision for associative arrays in XSLT ? 
> 
> XSLT doesn't do arrays of any sort. It does however do XML which is much
> more fun, and allows more interesting structure than an array which is
> of necessity rather rectangular.
> 
> if you have a map.xml that looks like
> 
> <foo>
>   <bar in="name1" out="MyName"/>
>   <bar in="int4" out="finalInteger"/>
>  ...
> </foo>
> 
> Then you can do
> 
> <value-of
> select="document('map.xml')/foo/bar[@in=name(current())]/@out"/>
> 
> > I am wondering if
> >  any has example hash functions already lingering around
> >  their computer.
> 
> If the map file is big and you want the system to use a hashed lookup
> use a key, map file as above but use
> 
> <xsl:key name="map" match="bar" use="@in"/>
> <xsl:for-each select="document('map.xml')">
>  <xsl:value-of select="key('map',name())/@out"/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> David
> 
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