RE: Selection Criteria in XSL

OK,

I tried this and it seems to work:
(Warning - I'm totally new to this, and my presentation is just as much a
question as it MIGHT be a solution):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<xsl:template
match="viewentries/viewentry[entrydata[@columnnumber='1']='Autobiography']">
 <xsl:for-each select="entrydata">
  <h3><xsl:value-of select="."/></h3>
 </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>


So my understanding is this:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

> <xsl:template match="viewentries/viewentry">
> <xsl:for-each
> select="./entrydata[@columnnumber='1']/text='Autobiography'">

You are trying to select the specific viewentry node, therefore you would
have:  viewentries/viewentry[some criteria]

Note:  With your's, after you piece together the match & the for-each, you
get:  viewentries/viewentry/entrydata ...
	>> This selects the actual entrydata node.
	 Also the /text isn't a node, or anything.  Maybe if the XML was formed
<entrydata><text></text></entrydata>?

Actually, I tried to do this selection in two parts, like yours, ie;
	> <xsl:template match="viewentries/viewentry">
	> <xsl:for-each select=".[entrydata[@columnnumber='1']='Autobiography']">

but it definitely did not like this.  Maybe someone can offer an
explanation?



I'm using XML Spy v3.5 with MXSML 3.0



Cheers,

Brent
http://www.kobayashi.ca/
http://www.medusacreative.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James J
> Nampalam
> Sent: March 21, 2001 11:06 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Selection Criteria in XSL
>
>
> Hi every one,
> I have a problem which must be a simple one but  I am not sure
> how to crack
> it.
> To give a background of the scenario, we are working on Domino environment
> and are using XML and XSL to populate data into a page.
>
> The XML file is like:
>
> <viewentries>
> <viewentry>
> <entrydata>..</entrydata>
> <entrydata>..</entrydata>
> <entrydata>..</entrydata>
> </viewentry>
> <viewentry>
> <entrydata>..</entrydata>
> <entrydata>..</entrydata>
> <entrydata>..</entrydata>
> </viewentry>
> </viewentries>
>
> the entry data element has an attribute - columnnumber which defines the
> position of the entrydata in the viewentry element.
>
> MY problem is I need to select only those viewentry elements whose 1st
> entrydata elements match a specific value..
>
> I wrote something like this.
>
> <xsl:template match="viewentries/viewentry">
> <xsl:for-each
> select="./entrydata[@columnnumber='1']/text='Autobiography'">
> populate the other values in the viewentry element...
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I am rookie in XSL. So please help me out..
>
> Thanks in Advance,
>
> James
>
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