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Subject: RE: XSLT to find missing characters?
From: Américo Albuquerque <aalbuquerque@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:00:21 +0100
find missing letters
Hi!

Try this one:
 <xsl:template name="SearchNext">
  <xsl:param name="letter"/>
  <xsl:param name="nodes" select="/beers/beer[starts-with(@name,$letter)]"/>
  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="count($nodes)&gt;0">
   <xsl:value-of select="$nodes[1]/@name"/>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:when
test="substring(/beers/beer[position()=last()]/@name,1,1)&gt;substring($alph
abet,string-length($alphabet),1)">
   <xsl:value-of select="/beers/beer[1]/@name"/>
   </xsl:when>
   <xsl:otherwise>
   <xsl:call-template name="SearchNext">
    <xsl:with-param name="letter"
select="substring(substring-after($alphabet,$letter),1,1)"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
   </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

it worked with the xml you provide.
Hope that this helps

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kirk Allen
Evans
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:09 PM
To: Xsl-List@Lists. Mulberrytech. Com
Subject:  XSLT to find missing characters?


Was hoping for a few hundred extra pairs of eyes for this, maybe another
solution.  I need to find the first element in a node set that matches a
criteria.  If that node is not present in the node set, grab the next node
in the node set alphabetically.  Here's the example:

<beers>
	<beer name="Amstel Light"/>
	<beer name="Budweiser"/>
	<beer name="Bud Lite"/>
	<beer name="Coors"/>
	<beer name="Michelob"/>
	<beer name="Miller Lite"/>
	<beer name="Sam Adams"/>
</beers>

If "B" is sent as the parameter, "Budweiser" is output.  If "D" is sent,
then "Michelob" is output.  If no matches are found, the first element is
used for the output.  Here is my working stylesheet.  I was wondering if
anyone could think of a different approach to solving this problem, perhaps
with fewer string manipulations?


<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:param name="searchLetter" select="'D'"/>
	<xsl:variable name="alphabet" select="'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/>

	<xsl:output method="text"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:variable name="beerName">
			<xsl:call-template name="CheckAlphabet">
				<xsl:with-param name="charPos"
select="string-length(substring-before($alphabet,$searchLetter)) + 1"/>
			</xsl:call-template>
		</xsl:variable>
		<xsl:value-of select="$beerName"/>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template name="CheckAlphabet">
		<xsl:param name="charPos" select="1" />
		<xsl:variable name="alphabetLength" select="26" />
		<xsl:choose>
			<xsl:when test="$charPos &lt;= $alphabetLength">
				<xsl:choose>
					<xsl:when
test="/beers/beer[starts-with(@name,substring($alphabet,$charPos,1))][1]">
						<xsl:value-of
select="/beers/beer[starts-with(@name,substring($alphabet,$charPos,1))][1]/@
name"/>
					</xsl:when>
					<xsl:otherwise>
						<xsl:call-template name="CheckAlphabet">
							<xsl:with-param name="charPos" select="$charPos + 1"/>
						</xsl:call-template>
					</xsl:otherwise>
				</xsl:choose>
			</xsl:when>
			<xsl:otherwise>
				<xsl:value-of select="/beers/beer[1]/@name"/>
			</xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Kirk Allen Evans
http://www.xmlandasp.net
"XML and ASP.NET", New Riders Publishing
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/073571200X


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