Re: further question on creating an id

Your example document isn't well-formed XML.


Quoting ªL ¤lªä <minikittygo@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> hi there, i was wondering anyone could help me out on this question...
> suppose i have such structure...
> 
> <people>
> <male>
>   <person>
>     <name>
>       <first_name>Alan</first_name>
>       <last_name>Turing</last_name>
>     </name>
>     <profession>computer scientist</profession>
>     <profession>mathematician</profession>
>     <profession>cryptographer</profession>
>   </person>
>
>   <person>
>     <name>
>       <first_name>Richard</first_name>
>       <middle_initial>M</middle_initial>
>       <last_name>Feynman</last_name>
>     </name>
>     <profession>physicist</profession>
>     <hobby>Playing the bongoes</hobby>
>   </person>


**** missing a close tag for <male>
**** there was no open tag for <technic>

> </technic>
> 
> <female>
> <person>
>     <name>
>       <first_name>Shelia</first_name>
>       <middle_initial>M</middle_initial>
>       <last_name>Feynman</last_name>
>     </name>
>     <profession>mathematican</profession>
>     <hobby>Jogging</hobby>
>   </person>
> ...
> </female>
> </people>
> 
> my question is, i wish to transform it into a html format, is it
> possible 
> to add an id to all the profession? will i be able to have the same id
> for 
> identical profession? (e.g profession for mathematican will be the same
> 
> regardless whether it is in the male element or female element)if no, is
> 
> there a way to get round the problem? 

Is there any reason why you can't use the name of the profession as the id?

You could use a key which maped the name of a profession to the result
of doing generate-id() on the first profession element with that content.
I don't have my copy of Mike Kay's book handy so I can't provide the right
code for you now.  It should be easy enough to figure out though.  Read
about the XSLT "key" element and the "key" function.

> furthermore, i seen Andrew provide a solution for Yan for selecting an 
> element dynamically, however, i was wondering how would i achieve
> similiar 
> result using xalan and xerces?
> 
> many thanks
> 
> Kit
> 
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