thanks for the help works great!


--- "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> At 2007-03-27 08:14 -0700, xslt user wrote:
> >Here is sample XML
> >...
> >which I want to transform into this:
> >...
> >just giving the element name if no ancestor has the
> >attribute "id" and giving the closest ancestor "id"
> as
> >the starting point and all element names back to
> the
> >current node if it does have an ancestor with
> >attribute "id".
> >
> >Here is what I have so far, but it's not enough.
> 
> I think you only need something such as what I have
> below.
> 
> >...
> >but I need to process back until the current node
> (not
> >beyond it...) giving all element names along the
> way,
> >starting after the closest ancestor node with an
> >attribute "id".
> >
> >I've done some searching and I might need to do
> some
> >XSLT grouping, but I'm not sure yet.  Can anyone
> help?
> 
> Because the elements are nested and not siblings, I
> believe you don't 
> need grouping at all but can do it entirely with
> axes.
> 
> I hope this helps ... it does give you precisely the
> output that you quoted.
> 
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
> 
> t:\ftemp>type xsltacct.xml
> <root>
>    <zero>
>          <one id="a">
>            <two>
>                  <three id="c">
>                    <four id="d">
>                          <five>
>                            <six>
>                                  <seven/>
>                            </six>
>                          </five>
>                    </four>
>                  </three>
>            </two>
>          </one>
>    </zero>
> </root>
> t:\ftemp>type xsltacct.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="not(ancestor-or-self::*[@id])">
>        <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>
>        <xsl:value-of
> select="ancestor-or-self::*[@id][1]/@id"/>
>        <xsl:if test="not(@id)">
>          <xsl:for-each
>            
> select="ancestor-or-self::*[count(ancestor::*[@id])=
>                                        
> count(current()/ancestor::*[@id])]">
>            <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>            <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/>
>          </xsl:for-each>
>        </xsl:if>
>      </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
>    <xsl:text>
> </xsl:text>
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> t:\ftemp>xslt xsltacct.xml xsltacct.xsl con
> root
> zero
> a
> a two
> c
> d
> d five
> d five six
> d five six seven
> 
> t:\ftemp>
> 
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