RE: Repeated Recursion on different parts of a tree

my god, do you think you will learn a computer language without having a
basic reference ?

the 'hunt and peck handbook of learning XSLT' ......u nearly answered your
own question !

try <xsl:call-template/> tag.

chow, jim fuller

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Doggett
> Sent: 30 September 2002 13:58
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Repeated Recursion on different parts of a tree
>
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there anyway I can perform the below operation by
> 'calling' a template by name, instead of using a template
> match?
>
>  <xsl:template match="register">
>   ... <xsl:apply-templates select="bitfield[1]"/>....
>
>
>  with
>  <xsl:template match="bitfield">
>    <xsl:param  ... whatever parameters you need .../>
>      ... some sums ...
>    <xsl:apply-templates
> select="following-sibling::bitfield[1]">
>     <xsl:with-param ... new values passed to the next
>    </xsl:apply-templates>
>  ...
>
>
> My XML looks like:
>
> <register name="DATA" offset="0">
>     <no_of_regs>1</no_of_regs>
>     <descriptivename>Data register</descriptivename>
>     <description>The ...ster.</description>
>     <description>In ord..H.</description>
>     <description>..Oe...</description>
>     <bitfield name="DATA">
>       <function>Input data.</function>
>       <bitpos>0</bitpos>
>       <no_of_bits>10</no_of_bits>
>       <initialvalue>0</initialvalue>
>       <accesstype>R</accesstype>
>     </bitfield>
>     <bitfield name="CONTROL">
>       <function>Output data</function>
>       <bitpos>10</bitpos>
>       <no_of_bits>6</no_of_bits>
>       <initialvalue>0</initialvalue>
>       <accesstype>RW</accesstype>
>     </bitfield>
> etc..........
>
> </register>
>
> <register name="SWAP" offset="10">
>     <no_of_regs..........
>
> (I want to use values in each bitfield to create an
> expression for the whole <register> e.g output document to
> look like - Register DATA initialValue = X......)
>
> My existing XSL stylesheet already has a few templates
> which are called 'by name'. So when I implement the above,
> I an getting junk in my output document. (actually I seem
> to get the source xml element value output for each first
> <bitfield> element)
>
> Therefore I would like to call the template by name so as
> not to incur these side effects. Any ideas?
>
>
> Thankyou
>
>
> PD
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:00:20 +0100 David Carlisle
> <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > > cant dynamically update a variable in XSL while traversing the tree.
> >
> > you just need to make your variable a parameter to your template and
> > pass on the parameter at the same time as traversing the tree.
> > You;ll probably want to traverse th etree one at a time rather than
> > applying templates to a set of sibling nodes at the same time as that
> > helps keep ones notion of paremeter passing and template invocation in
> > sync.
> >
> > that is, instead of doing
> >
> > <xsl:template match="register">
> >  ... <xsl:apply-templates select="bitfield"/>....
> >
> > do
> >
> >
> > <xsl:template match="register">
> >  ... <xsl:apply-templates select="bitfield[1]"/>....
> >
> >
> > with
> > <xsl:template match="bitfield">
> >   <xsl:param  ... whatever parameters you need .../>
> >     ... some sums ...
> >   <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::bitfield[1]">
> >    <xsl:with-param ... new values passed to the next
> >   </xsl:apply-templates>
> > ...
> >
> > David
> >
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