Re: using xsl to substitute synonyms or translate

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Subject: Re: using xsl to substitute synonyms or translate
From: "Thomas McDonald" <tomandlis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:23:38 -0500

Sorry to answer my own question. If I had thought about it longer I would have realized the answer. The whole xsl is below (untested). But I will walk through the steps in case this is helpful to anyone. I use an include document, e.g.,

<xsl:variable name="nameLookupDoc" select="document('/includes/names.xml')"/>

and then creating a key on that document, e.g.,

<xsl:key name="nameNumKey" match="nflTeamNames/name" use="@nameId"/>

where 'nameId' would be a new attribute, e.g.,
<nflName nameId='49ers'>
 <alias>San Francisco</alias>
</nflName>

Then I do a match and a for-each, e.g.,

<xsl:template match="names">
<xsl:for-each select="$nameLookupDoc">
  <xsl:value-of select="key('nameNumKey',.)/alias"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

So the whole thing looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0'?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:variable name="nameLookupDoc" select="document('/stage4/includes/names.xml')"/> <xsl:key name="nameNumKey" match="name" use="@nameId"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="nflTeamNames"/> <xsl:template match="names"> <xsl:variable name="lcletters">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="ucletters">ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ</xsl:variable> <xsl:for-each select="$nameLookupDoc"> <xsl:value-of select="translate(key('nameNumKey',.)/alias"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>

From: "Thomas McDonald" <tomandlis@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: using xsl to substitute synonyms or translate Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 15:36:22 -0500

I have a problem that I think is similar to translating words in one language to words in another language and I was wondering if I could use xsl to do it.

I know what my source input will be (example below) and I know what I want to output to be, but I can't fathom how to build an xsl to get the output. I thought I could use the translate function, but there would be a long list of things to translate. There are 32 teams and I want to use this process again (on something unrelated) for a list of over 300 items.

Here is what my source document will look like
<nflTeamNames>
  <name>49ers</name>
  <name>Cowboys</name>
  .
  .
  .
  <name>Seahawks</name>
<nflTeamNames>
Here is what I want the output to look like:
<nflCities>
  <city>San Francisco</city>
  <city>Dallas</city>
  .
  .
  .
  <city>Seattle</city>
</nflCities>
In case you don't know American football the 49ers are the San Francisco team, the Cowboys are the Dallas team and so on. :-)

Regards,

Tom

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