Re: Adding elements to unknown tree structure

How about

<xsl:copy-of select="/*/@name | following::sibling/*/@name)" />

(from the top of my head, can not test here...)


On 9/25/05, Gustave Stresen-Reuter <tedmasterweb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers. I'm getting there, but have an interim
> question.
>
> Given
>
> <folder name="documents">
>     <folder name="personal" />
> <folder/>
> <folder name="documents">
>     <folder name="public">
> </folder>
>
> How do I get:
>
> <folder name="documents">
>     <folder name="personal" />
>     <folder name="public">
> </folder>
>
> The few places I've looked indicate that I should use something like
> this:
>
> <xsl:copy-of select="not(@name = following::*/@name)" />
>
> but that isn't working. Other things I've tried return the whole
> document. Also, I'm afraid that this solution would not return the
> name="public" child element of the second folder element.
>
> Basically, I'm looking for a "merged" version of these two fragments.
> By "merged" I mean that if an element has the same ancestors, the same
> attributes, and the attribute have the same values, but the node
> content is different, the content should be added to the same node
> appearing earlier in the document.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Ted Stresen-Reuter
>
> On Sep 21, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Joris Gillis wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Tempore 17:41:53, die 09/21/2005 AD, hinc in
> > xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit Gustave Stresen-Reuter
> > <tedmasterweb@xxxxxxx>:
> >
> >> Given:
> >>
> >> <myxmlfile>
> >>      <folder name="root">
> >>          <folder name="documents">
> >>              <document name="passwords">
> >>                  123456
> >>              </document>
> >>          </folder>
> >>          <folder name="pictures">
> >>              <folder name="family" />
> >>          </folder>
> >>      </folder>
> >> </myxmlfile>
> >>
> >> parameter: folder_name = "friends"
> >> parameter: path2folder = root/pictures
> >>
> >> How can I create a new folder element named "friends" in the pictures
> >> element?
> >>
> >> Keep in mind that I need to make sure that both "root" and "pictures"
> >> exist and if they don't, create them first.
> >
> > See if you can get this stylesheet working:
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> >       xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> >       <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <xsl:apply-templates>
> > <xsl:with-param
> > name="path2folder">/root/pictures/friends</xsl:with-param>
> > </xsl:apply-templates>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="node()">
> > <xsl:param name="path2folder"/>
> > <xsl:param name="good" select="true()"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="path" select="substring-before($path2folder,'/')"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="verygood"
> >       select="($good and @name=$path) or self::myxmlfile"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="pathafter"
> > select="substring-after($path2folder,'/')"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="nextpath"
> > select="substring-before($pathafter,'/')"/>
> > <xsl:variable name="folder" select="folder[@name=$nextpath][$good]"/>
> > <xsl:copy>
> >       <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()">
> >               <xsl:with-param name="path2folder" select="$pathafter"/>
> >               <xsl:with-param name="good" select="$verygood"/>
> >       </xsl:apply-templates>
> >       <xsl:if test="$verygood and not($folder) and not($path2folder='')">
> >               <xsl:call-template name="createFolder">
> >                       <xsl:with-param name="path2folder"
select="$pathafter"/>
> >               </xsl:call-template>
> >       </xsl:if>
> > </xsl:copy>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template name="createFolder">
> > <xsl:param name="path2folder"/>
> > <folder name="{substring-before(concat($path2folder,'/'),'/')}">
> >       <xsl:if test="contains($path2folder,'/')">
> >               <xsl:call-template name="createFolder">
> >                       <xsl:with-param name="path2folder"
> >
select="substring-after($path2folder,'/')"/>
> >               </xsl:call-template>
> >       </xsl:if>
> >       <xsl:if test="not(contains($path2folder,'/'))">
> >               <xsl:comment>folder inserted</xsl:comment>
> >       </xsl:if>
> > </folder>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> >
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > --
> > Joris Gillis (http://users.telenet.be/root-jg/me.html)
> > Don't send spam. I don't like it and it is illegal.