Re: How Can You Exit an xsl:for-each Loop Prematurely?

I was afraid that using the example with a null was going to oversimplify the
problem.

Here is a portion of my actual XLM which I am supplied and have no control over.

<METADATA>
     <CODES CLASS="CATEGORY">
          <CODE CODE="NEWS"/>
          <CODE CODE="IT"/>
          <CODE CODE="DE"/>
          <CODE CODE="EUROPE"/>
          <CODE CODE="CRIM"/>
          <CODE CODE="GB"/>
          <CODE CODE="ODD"/>
     </CODES>
</METADATA>

<StringMap>
     <textIn SupCat="AAA" iCat="Ratings News"/>
     <textIn SupCat="ADV" iCat="Advertising"/>
     <textIn SupCat="ODD" iCat="Human Interest"/>
     <textIn SupCat="GB" iCat="Great Britain"/>
</StringMap>

The actual transformation is to see if any CODE attribute in the METADATA
matches any SupCat in the StringMap and if it does then output the iCat value.

BUT I want to output only one match, i.e., if there is more than one match (as
in this case GB and ODD both match) I want only one of them.

I would also like it to be determinant which would be output given the ordering
in the METADATA and/or the StringMap.

I am able to write a transform which gets all of the matches but not only the
"first".

     mike




                                                                  
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To:   Michael Teigman <michael.teigman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cc:    (bcc: Michael Teigman/HPG/US/Reuters)
Subject:  Re: How Can You Exit an xsl:for-each Loop Prematurely?






Try something like this:

<xsl:for-each select="//Salesman/Orders/@Order[string(.) != ''][1]">
    ...output something...
</xsl:for-each/>

The first bracket should eliminate empty attributes, and the second should
restrict the search to the
first one only.


Michael Teigman wrote:

> My source XML has an element with a set of attributes with the same name e.g.,
>
> <Salesman>
>      <Orders Order=""/>
>      <Orders Order=""/>
>      <Orders Order="zzzzzzzzz"/>
>      <Orders Order="ee"/>
> </Salesman>
>
> To simplify, I am doing the equivalent of trying to find the first non-null
> Order, e.g.:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="//Salesman/Orders/@Order">
>      <xsl:variable name="orderID">
>                     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>      </xsl:variable>
>      <xsl:if test="string-length($orderID) > 0">
>           ..... output something .....
>      </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> I want only the first output. I do not want multiple outputs.
>
> How could I exit after the first or suppress the additional outputs after I
have
> found one?
>
>      mike

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