RE: merging unknown nodes

Jon,

This should do the trick,

<xsl:for-each select="/PRODUCTS/PRODUCT/OPTIONLIST">
	<xsl:if test="not (@name = preceding::OPTIONLIST/@name)">
		<xsl:variable name="name" select="@name"/>
		<OPTIONLIST name="{$name}">
			<xsl:copy-of select="/PRODUCTS/PRODUCT/OPTIONLIST/*[../@name=$name]"/>
		</OPTIONLIST>
	</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

Kev.

>
>
> I'm new to XSL(T) and so far I have not been able to think of a way of
> achieving the required transform using XSLT and I think I'm going
> to have to
> result to using some JavaScript or may be some plain old C code :-(
>
> What I want to be able to do is transform this:
>
> <PRODUCTS>
>     <PRODUCT name="bill_product">
>         <OPTIONLIST name="fred"> <!-- The first 'fred' option list -->
>             <OPTION>fred1</OPTION>
>             <OPTION>fred2</OPTION>
>         </OPTIONLIST>
>         <OPTIONLIST name="george">
>             <OPTION>george1</OPTION>
>         </OPTIONLIST>
>     </PRODUCT>
>
>     <PRODUCT name="bob_product">
>         <OPTIONLIST name="fred">   <!-- The second 'fred' optionlist -->
>             <OPTION>fred3</OPTION>
>             <OPTION>fred4</OPTION>
>         </OPTIONLIST>
>         <OPTIONLIST name="george">
>             <OPTION>george2</OPTION>
>         </OPTIONLIST>
>     </PRODUCT>
> <PRODUCTS>
>
> Into this:
>
> <OPTIONLIST name="fred">	<!-- All the 'fred' optionlist's merged into
> one -->
>     <OPTION>fred1</OPTION>
>     <OPTION>fred2</OPTION>
>     <OPTION>fred3</OPTION>
>     <OPTION>fred4</OPTION>
> </OPTIONLIST>
> <OPTIONLIST name="george">	<!-- All the 'george' optionlist's
> merged into
> one -->
>     <OPTION>george1</OPTION>
>     <OPTION>george2</OPTION>
> </OPTIONLIST>
>
> If the transform was literally just this one case then it wouldn't be a
> problem however I want to be able to merge all OPTIONLIST's with the same
> name into one OPTIONLIST with that name i.e. I don't want to be limited to
> just 'fred' and 'george' option lists but I want to have any number of
> different named OPTIONLIST's and have them merged.
>
> Is this possible using just XSLT (in which case I guess I just
> don't have a
> good enough understanding yet) or am I going to have to use a procedural
> langauge to solve this part?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jon Payne
>
>
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>
>
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