RE: Data-Dtriven node selection

Slight correction:

$data = a sequence of LR elements
$find = a sequence of Lookup elements

select="$data[@from=$find/@from]"

Douglas Ross
Developer, HTML UI Framework
Kronos
E-mail: dross@xxxxxxxxxx
www.kronos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ross, Douglas [mailto:DRoss@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:03 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Data-Dtriven node selection

I am not sure where in the script you need this but the technique you
want is something like this:

$data = the LR elements
$find = the Lookup elements

select="$data/LR[@from=$find/@from]"

Douglas Ross
Developer, HTML UI Framework
Kronos
E-mail: dross@xxxxxxxxxx
www.kronos.com

-----Original Message-----
From: David Laub [mailto:dlaub@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 9:24 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Data-Dtriven node selection

I may be attempting the impossible.  Or I just may be
too stupid to figure it out

What I want to do is this: use a xml file to specify
which nodes from another xml file to select using a
data-driven xslt template.

For example:

1) My base xml file (LR.xml) , from which I want to
select nodes in a data-drivem manner

<LR>
	<Name>David Laub</Name>
	<Age>53</Age>
	<Addr>4645 W. Jerome</Addr>
	<Telephone>847-674 2266</Telephone>
	<City>Skokie</City>
	<State>IL</State>
</LR>

2) My data-driven "selector" file (LRLookup1.xml) -
the intent being for this specific example to select
only the name & city nodes - I also want to rename the
nodes.

<LRLookUp1>
	<Element from="LR/Name" to="Name"/>
	<Element from="LR/City" to="HomeTown"/>
</LRLookUp1>

3) Finally my stylesheet (GenericLRFiler.xsl) - which
doesn't quite work - I associate it with LRLookup1.xml
and the stylesheet then explicitly also reads the
LR.xml file

The key line is:

<xsl:value-of select="$LossReport/./@from"/>

That's the line that fails: I want to append in a
data-driven manner the specific nodes to the existing
node-tree in the variable $LossReport.  The XPath
isn't smart enough to know I want to evaluate ./@from
(which holds LR/Name & LR/City from the data-driven
selector file) I guess it just thinks I'm appending
the string ./@from as part of the XPath, which returns
nothing

I can succesfully hard code a specific node

<xsl:value-of select="$LossReport/LR/City"/>

but that defeats teh whole purpose of the whole
exercise!

Here's the full stylesheet

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
	<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
	<xsl:variable name="LossReport"
select="document('XSLT/LR.xml')"/>
	<xsl:template match="*">
		<xsl:element name="LRFilteredData">
			<xsl:apply-templates/>
		</xsl:element>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="/LRLookUp1/Element">
		<xsl:element name="{./@to}">
			<xsl:value-of select="$LossReport/./@from"/>
		</xsl:element>
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This is actual output:

<LRFilteredData>
	<Name></Name>
	<HomeTown></HomeTown>
</LRFilteredData>

what I want for output is:

<LRFilteredData>
	<Name>David Laub</Name>
	<HomeTown>Skokie</HomeTown>
</LRFilteredData>


So is this magic do-able?

Thanks in advance

David Laub