RE: PARAMS and VARIABLES in XSL

Dave, thanks for the quick reply. This did not work.
It transformed to the following using Altova version
2007:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>ja<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>ty<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>on<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>my<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>vy<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>oni<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>eto<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>to<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>zdjes`<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>tut<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>tam<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>kto<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>chto<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>gdje<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>kogda<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>kak<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>nje<word
soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>vsje

--- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Looks like
> 
> <xsl:template match="clause">
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="word"/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="word">
>   <word
> soundtime="preceding-sibling::sound[1]/@time"/>
>     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>   </
> </
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mark bordelon
> [mailto:markcbordelon@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 30 January 2007 19:42
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject:  PARAMS and VARIABLES in XSL
> > 
> > I need help with the following problem.
> > 
> > This is the XML is wish to transform:
> >  
> > <clause>
> >  <sound time="1.2">
> >  <word>the</word>
> >  <word>quick</word>
> >  <sound time="2.2">
> >  <word>fox</word>
> >  <sound time="2.8">
> >  <word>jumped</word>
> > </clause>
> > <clause>
> > </clause>
> >  
> > I need to transform it into the following xml,
> where the 
> > sound tags time attritubes are soundtime
> attributes of the 
> > following word tags:
> >  
> > <clause>
> >  <word soundtime="1.2">the</word>
> >  <word soundtime="1.2">quick</word>
> >  <word soundtime="2.2">fox</word>
> >  <word soundtime="2.8">jumped</word>
> > </clause>
> > <clause>
> > </clause>
> >  
> > Note that the soundtime attribute should not
> change if there 
> > was no intervening new sound tag. 
> >  
> > I have tried all sorts of solutions using axes, 
> > preceding-sibling, but these did not work, since
> the <word> 
> > and <sound> are not true siblings to the
> processor, even 
> > though they are on the same level of the
> hierarchy.
> >  
> > The solution I would like to work with is the
> following, 
> > using params to accumulate the soundtime variable.
> However, 
> > even with all the research I have done, I cannot
> find a 
> > solution that the processor does not error on. Can
> anyone help?
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
> 
> > <xsl:template match="//clause/*"> <xsl:param
> name="soundtime" 
> > /> <xsl:if test="local-name() = 'sound'">
> <xsl:param 
> > name="soundtime" select="@time" /> </xsl:if>
> <xsl:if 
> > test="local-name() = 'word'"> <word sound =
> "{$soundtime}" > 
> > <xsl:value-of select="." /> </word> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template> 
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> >
>
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