Re: xsl:for-each...iteration question

My solution would go like this:
At the top of the stylesheet, use the document function to write the 
exclude-attr elements into a variable (so that I only have to use the 
document function once).
In the modify-attr template, see if the current node has a matching 
exclude-attr element (by examining the contents of that variable).
If not, write the modify-attr element to the result.

So, I'd end up with this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:variable name="exclude" select="document('excludedoc.xml')"/>

  <xsl:template match="modify-attr">
    <xsl:variable name="name" select="@attr-name"/>
    <xsl:if test="not($exclude/exclude-list/exclude-attr[.=$name])">
      <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Tested with Saxon 8.4 and Xalan-J 2.4.1.

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





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 xsl:for-each...iteration question






This has been answered before I'm sure but doing a relevant search in the 
archives is tricky.
 
I've an input doc containing a number of modify-attr elements
<modify>
  <modify-attr attr-name = "abc"/> 
  <modify-attr attr-name = "123"/>
  <modify-attr attr-name = "789"/>
</modify>
 
I have another document containing a list of prohibited attributes.
<exclude-list>
  <exclude-attr>123</exclude-attr>
</exclude-list>
 
 
I want to iterate over my input doc and copy all those modify-attr 
elements that are NOT in the exclude list to the output.
 
<xsl:template match="modify/modify-attr">
  <xsl:variable name="currentAttr" select="@attr-name"/>
  <xsl:variable name="currentNode" select="."/>
 
  <xsl:for-each select="document('excludedoc')/exclude-list/exclude-attr">
    <xsl:when test="$currentAttr=.">
      <xsl:message>Exclude</xsl:message>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:copy-of select="$currentNode"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:for-each>
 
</xsl:template>
 
Obvisouly, this is flawed, I get multiple modify-attr elements copied to 
the output because I cannot see a way of ensuring the for-each only copies 
a permitted node once and once only.
 
I've a feeling this is approaching the problem from the wrong way....