RE: Copying and transforming/Recursion?

John,

Thanks for the input but - like Sara's solution - this requires that I know
the structure inside of <display> ahead of time - I need something more
dynamic, hence why I was thinking about recursion to move through the
children since it could handle a different structure every time.

Ideas?

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: John E. Simpson [mailto:simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 4:46 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Copying and transforming/Recursion?


At 02:45 PM 10/10/2000 -0400, Jeff Saylor wrote:
>Starting with:
>
>   <xml>
>     <submittedValues>
>       <submittedValue fieldname='title'>mr.</submittedValue>
>     </submittedValues>
>
>     <display>
>       <p>
>         title:<input type='text' fieldname='title' value=''/>
>       </p>
>     </display>
>   </xml>
>
>Effectively, I want to use the <submittedValue>'s text with the matching
(by
>@fieldname) <display>'s <input> to get:
>
>   <display>
>     <p>
>       title:<input type='text' fieldname='title' value='mr.' />
>     </p>
>   </display>

Well, it's hard to generalize from a small XML doc. But if all your 
submittedValues and display elements follow this regular pattern, this 
should work:

<xsl:template match="xml_root">
   <xsl:for-each select="submittedValues/submittedValue">
    <xsl:if test="./@fieldname=../following-sibling::*//input/@fieldname">
       <display>
           <p>title:
            <input type="text" fieldname="{@fieldname}">
              <xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of 
select="."/></xsl:attribute>
             </input>
           </p>
          </display>
    </xsl:if>
   </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

(Btw, I changed the name of your root "xml" element to "xml_root." I didn't 
know if you really meant for an element to be called "xml" but if so, it 
offended what few purist sensibilities I still have. :)

Looks okay in IE5 (Sept. '00 release), and Saxon outputs:

<display>
     <p>title:
         <input type="text" fieldname="title" value="mr.">
     </p>
</display>

>this involves outputting the <display> tag, and its contents, while
>selectively transforming an element within them - I can not figure out a
way
>to do this.  I am thinking copy-of and recursive templates would do the
>trick, but I can't get a grasp on how to do it...

Sorry, I didn't use copy-of or recursive templates!

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