RE: PARAMS and VARIABLES in XSL

Looks like

<xsl:template match="clause">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="word"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="word">
  <word soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </
</

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mark bordelon [mailto:markcbordelon@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 30 January 2007 19:42
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  PARAMS and VARIABLES in XSL
> 
> I need help with the following problem.
> 
> This is the XML is wish to transform:
>  
> <clause>
>  <sound time="1.2">
>  <word>the</word>
>  <word>quick</word>
>  <sound time="2.2">
>  <word>fox</word>
>  <sound time="2.8">
>  <word>jumped</word>
> </clause>
> <clause>
> </clause>
>  
> I need to transform it into the following xml, where the 
> sound tags time attritubes are soundtime attributes of the 
> following word tags:
>  
> <clause>
>  <word soundtime="1.2">the</word>
>  <word soundtime="1.2">quick</word>
>  <word soundtime="2.2">fox</word>
>  <word soundtime="2.8">jumped</word>
> </clause>
> <clause>
> </clause>
>  
> Note that the soundtime attribute should not change if there 
> was no intervening new sound tag. 
>  
> I have tried all sorts of solutions using axes, 
> preceding-sibling, but these did not work, since the <word> 
> and <sound> are not true siblings to the processor, even 
> though they are on the same level of the hierarchy.
>  
> The solution I would like to work with is the following, 
> using params to accumulate the soundtime variable. However, 
> even with all the research I have done, I cannot find a 
> solution that the processor does not error on. Can anyone help?
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > 
> <xsl:template match="//clause/*"> <xsl:param name="soundtime" 
> /> <xsl:if test="local-name() = 'sound'"> <xsl:param 
> name="soundtime" select="@time" /> </xsl:if> <xsl:if 
> test="local-name() = 'word'"> <word sound = "{$soundtime}" > 
> <xsl:value-of select="." /> </word> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 
>  
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