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Re: Nesting XPath predicates

Subject: Re: Nesting XPath predicates
From: Nathan Potter <ndp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:43:01 -0700
Re:  Nesting XPath predicates
On Apr 23, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Nathan Potter wrote:



Greetings,

I am having a difficulty creating a XPath element.

Tiny Example XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<catalog name="MasterCatalog">

<service name="WCS" base="/opendap/wcs_service/"/>

    <dataset name="Foo" urlPath="data/foo" >
        <serviceName>WCS</serviceName>
    </dataset>

</catalog>


This works:


<xsl:value-of select="//service[@name='WCS']/@base" /><br />

It returns the value of the attribute "base" for the first "service"
element in the document whose "name" attribute evaluates to "WCS"

However, in my problem when processing a "dataset" element there is a child
element that contains the name of the service:


I need to get the "base" attribute for the "service" that matches the text
value of the "serviceName" element.


I thought that I should be able to do it by calling for the value- of the
serviceName element inside the XPath for the select::



My apologies, there is a typo. This:



<xsl:template match="dataset">
<xsl:value-of select="(//service/[@name='{serviceName}']/ @base" />
</xsl:template-match>



Should be:


<xsl:template match="dataset">
<xsl:value-of select="//service/[@name='{serviceName}']/ @base" />
</xsl:template-match>



Not that either one works...





But that doesn't work.



Question 1): Should that work? Is it just an XPath syntax error on my part, or
must the value of the equality test [@name='stuff'] be hard wired?


Question 2): Is there another way to get to the same place?


I can kludge it using a named template, but I think it's (a) fragile and (b) ugly.



Thanks in Advance!




Nathan Potter



Complete Example:



Example source XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<catalog name="MasterCatalog">
    <service name="OPeNDAP-Hyrax"  base="/opendap/"/>
    <service name="WCS"  base="/opendap/wcs_service/"/>
    <dataset name="Surface Air Temperature"
             urlPath="data/TSurfAir" >
        <serviceName>OPeNDAP-Hyrax</serviceName>
   </dataset>
    <dataset name="Foo" urlPath="data/foo" >
        <serviceName>WCS</serviceName>
   </dataset>
    <dataset name="SeaSurfaceTemperature"
             urlPath="data/sst">
        <serviceName>WCS</serviceName>
   </dataset>
</catalog>




Example XSLT:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet []>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>
<xsl:output method='html' version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' indent='yes'/>



<xsl:template match="catalog"> <html> <xsl:apply-templates /> </html> </xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="dataset">
<xsl:if test="not(dataset)"><!-- Otherwise, create the access link. -->


<!-- This Works, but it's hardwired for the same result every time: -->
service: <xsl:value-of select="//service[@name='WCS']/ @base" /><br/>


<!-- This does not. Is there a way to get there? -->
service: <xsl:value-of select="//service [@name='{serviceName}']/base" /><br/>


<!-- And this is a nasty workaround -->
<xsl:call-template name="accessURL">
<xsl:with-param name="serviceName"><xsl:value-of select="serviceName" /></xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="urlPath"><xsl:value-of select="@urlPath" /></xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="name"><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="suffix">html</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template><br/>


</xsl:if>

</xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="accessURL">
<xsl:param name="serviceName" />
<xsl:param name="urlPath" />
<xsl:param name="name" />
<xsl:param name="suffix" />
<xsl:for-each select="//service">
<xsl:if test="@name = $serviceName">
<a href="{@base}{$urlPath}.{$suffix}" > <xsl:value- of select="$name" /></a>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>



<xsl:template match="serviceName"> <xsl:param name="indent" /> </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>



============================================================
Nathan Potter                 Oregon State University, COAS


============================================================ Nathan Potter Oregon State University, COAS ndp at coas.oregonstate.edu 104 Ocean. Admin. Bldg. 541 737 2293 voice Corvallis, OR 97331-5503 541 737 2064 fax

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