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 Maybe I misunderstood your problem.
In your xml-file you have two elements with item_ParentID="2" and therefore
your template gets executed twice.
Rudolf P. Weinmann
Innovation Process Technology Inc
Switzerland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Power" <TomP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 5:27 AM
Subject: template matches more than once
> > Hello,
> >
> > In a nutshell, I have a template being applied more than it should. I
have
> > attached the XSL, XML and an ASP page at the end of this message. You
need
> > to have MSXML3.dll available from Microsoft.
> >
> > I know that I could use recursion, but this question is more about
> > understanding why the XSL processor is doing what it is doing - is my
XSL
> > is correct?
> >
> > If you look at the XML structure attached, it describes a simple menu
> > structure:
> > MyMenu (id=1, parent=-1)
> > -File (id=2, parent=1)
> > -Save (id=3, **parent=2**)
> > -Documents (id=4, **parent=2**)
> > -Doc1
> > Doc1.1
> > -Doc2
> > -Edit (parent=1)
> > -About Us (parent=1)
> > -Register
> >
> > An item links to a parent via item_ParentID. The simple xsl below
attempts
> > to extract all items where item_ParentID=2, which should match on the
item
> > elements where item_Text='Save', and 'Documents'. It does this match,
but
> > it does it twice.
> >
> > Furthermore, if I change the XSL to match where item_ParentID=1,
expecting
> > to get back 'File', 'Edit' and 'About Us' - it works, i.e. it only
matches
> > once for each element.
> >
> > It appears the matching has mixed results, depending on where in the xml
> > tree the first match is made. #*&$*#&$Please help!!
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Tom.
> >
> > **HERE IS THE XSL - Save to C:\Temp\menu.xsl
> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> > version="1.0">
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <HTML>
> > <HEAD></HEAD>
> > <BODY>
> > <p>Select clause = file://item - i.e. select all
> > 'item' elements in tree regardless of ancestry.</p>
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="//item" />
> > </BODY>
> > </HTML>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="item[@item_ParentID=2]">
> > <!--why is this template called twice -->
> > <p>
> > <xsl:value-of select="@item_text" />
> > </p>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> > **HERE IS THE XML** - save to C:\TEMP\menu.xml
> > <menu item_id="1" item_OrdinalPos="1" item_ParentID="-1"
item_SubItems="3"
> > item_text="my menu" item_href="">
> > <item item_id="2" item_OrdinalPos="1" item_ParentID="1"
item_SubItems="2"
> > item_text="File" item_href="">
> > <item item_id="4" item_OrdinalPos="1" item_ParentID="2"
item_SubItems="0"
> > item_text="Save" item_href=""></item>
> > <item item_id="5" item_OrdinalPos="2" item_ParentID="2"
item_SubItems="2"
> > item_text="Documents" item_href="">
> > <item item_id="6" item_OrdinalPos="1" item_ParentID="5"
item_SubItems="1"
> > item_text="Doc1" item_href="">
> > <item item_id="10" item_OrdinalPos="1" item_ParentID="6"
item_SubItems="0"
> > item_text="Doc1.1" item_href=""></item></item>
> > <item item_id="7" item_OrdinalPos="2" item_ParentID="5"
item_SubItems="0"
> > item_text="Doc2" item_href=""></item></item></item>
> > <item item_id="3" item_OrdinalPos="2" item_ParentID="1"
item_SubItems="0"
> > item_text="Edit" item_href=""></item>
> > <item item_id="8" item_OrdinalPos="3" item_ParentID="1"
item_SubItems="1"
> > item_text="About Us" item_href="">
> > <item item_id="9" item_OrdinalPos="1" item_ParentID="8"
item_SubItems="0"
> > item_text="Register" item_href=""></item></item></menu>
> >
> >
> >
> > **HERE IS THE ASP page
> > Note, call the page with a querystring of ?debug=True to just display
the
> > XML file above.
> >
> > <%@ Language=VBScript%>
> > <%
> > option explicit%>
> > <%
> > dim sHTML
> > dim oxsl
> > dim oxml
> > dim doDebug
> > dim whichStyle
> >
> > doDebug=Request.QueryString("debug")
> > doDebug=cbool(doDebug)
> >
> > set oXML=server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")
> > set oXSL=server.Createobject("MSXML2.DOMDocument.3.0")
> > oXML.async=false
> > oXML.load "C:\Temp\menu.xml"
> > oXSL.load "C:\Temp\menu.xsl"
> > if doDebug then
> > Response.ContentType="text/xml"
> > oxml.save Response
> > else
> > sHTML=oXML.transformnode(oXSL)
> > Response.ContentType="text/html"
> > Response.Write sHTML
> > end if
> > Response.end
> > %>
>
>
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