RE: Forgive the noob

Hi Don.  Thanks for your response.

I'll provide it, but my ultimate goal is to make the main template which
outputs my field-value pairs as simple as possible.  I need to set up a
bunch of variables in an include file beforehand so that a
non-programmer will be able to edit the XSLT (and create more XSLTs for
the same source XML) with ease.

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Sample Source XML.  In this sample there is one borrower, whose values I
want to put in some variables such as $buyer, $buyerfname,
$buyerprimaryaddress, $buyerprimaryaddressline1, etc.  HOWEVER, I also
want to set up variables for the cobuyer so the guy who comes behind me
can easily reference them w/o having to do any complicated XPath or XSLT
stuff.

This is greatly simplified of course.

  <Borrowers>
    <Borrower>
      <NumOrder>1</NumOrder>
      <FirstName>John</FirstName>
      <MiddleName>Q</MiddleName>
      <LastName>Public</LastName>
      <HomePhone>1234567890</HomePhone>
      <Addresses>
        <BorrowerAddress>
          <NumOrder>1</NumOrder>
          <IsCurrent>true</IsCurrent>
          <Type>GeneralDelivery</Type>
          <StreetNumber>123</StreetNumber>
          <StreetName>Main</StreetName>
          <StreetPrefix />
          <StreetSuffix>St.</StreetSuffix>
          <ApartmentSuiteNumber>Apt 66</ApartmentSuiteNumber>
          <PostOfficeBox />
          <RuralRoute />
          <MilitaryAPOFPO />
          <City>Beaumont</City>
          <CountyParish>Jefferson</CountyParish>
          <State>TX</State>
          <Zip>77706</Zip>
        </BorrowerAddress>
      </Addresses>
    </Borrower>
  </Borrowers>

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Sample Output:

  <FieldValuePairs>
    <FieldValuePair field="BuyerState" value="TX" />
    <FieldValuePair field="BuyerFullNameStreetCityStateZipPhone"
value="Autos, Inc.&#xD;&#xA;123 Lezmakadel Ln.&#xD;&#xA;Jacksonville, MI
12345" />
  </FieldValuePairs>

I *think* the &#xD;&#xA; are carriage-return+linefeed sequences.

Chris Bordeman


-----Original Message-----
From: Don Smith [mailto:dsmith_lockesmith@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:07 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Forgive the noob

Chris,

If you can provide an example of the source XML as well as an example of
what the target output should be, it would help.

Don


--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Bordeman, Chris <Chris.Bordeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> From: Bordeman, Chris <Chris.Bordeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject:  Forgive the noob
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 3:00 PM
> Hi guys, doing my first XSLT and need a bit of help.
>
> Basically, I'm transforming essentially a serialized object structure
> into a list of field-value pair nodes.
>
> There are a lot of complicated nodes I need to get at often, like the
> first address node under the first customer so I wanted to set up a
> bunch of variables and locate and and assign helper variables before I

> get into the template proper, which is itself very simple.
> I've written
> some functions to help w/ this and a single named template called
> "init"
> I call up front to set up the variables.
>
> The problem is when I assign to the variables inside my named
> template, they don't keep their value.  I'd just add this stuff to the

> main template but I really need to split all this init stuff into an
> include file or something so they can be reused in other xslts.
>
> How can I make these variables visible where I need to use them?
> Here's a bit of what I'm doing now:
>
> 	<!-- declare global helper variables -->
> 	<xsl:variable name="buyerfullname"
> select="''"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="buyeraddress"
> select="''"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="buyeraddress1"
> select="''"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="buyercsz"
> select="''"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="buyerhomephone"
> select="''"/>
> 	<xsl:variable name="buyerblock"
> select="''"/>
>
> 	<xsl:template name="init">
> 		<xsl:variable name="buyer"
> select="Contract/Borrowers/Borrower[NumOrder='1']"/>
> 		<xsl:choose>
> 			<xsl:when test="string($buyer) !=
> ''">
> 				<xsl:variable name="buyerfullname"
> select="fn:borrowerfullname($buyer)"/>
> 				<xsl:variable name="buyeraddress"
> select="$buyer/Addresses/BorrowerAddress[IsCurrent='true'
> and
> position()=1]"/>
> 				<xsl:variable name="buyeraddress1"
> select="fn:address1($buyeraddress)"/>
> 				<xsl:variable name="buyercsz"
> select="fn:csz($buyeraddress)"/>
> 				<xsl:variable name="buyerhomephone"
> select="$buyer/HomePhone/PhoneNumber"/>
> 				<xsl:variable name="buyerblock"
> select="string-join(($buyerfullname,$buyeraddress1,$buyercsz,$buyerhom
> ep
> hone),fn:crlf())"/>
> 			</xsl:when>
> 		</xsl:choose>
> 	</xsl:template>
>
> 	<!-- create helper variables -->
> 	<xsl:call-template name="init"/>
>
> 	<!-- Main Template, generates FieldValuePairs -->
> 	<!-- ERRORS: I GET 'VARIABLE DOES NOT EXIST'
> ERRORS -->
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<FieldValuePairs>
> 			<FieldValuePair field="BuyerState">
> ERROR --->			<xsl:attribute
> name="value"><xsl:value-of
> select="$buyeraddress/State"/></xsl:attribute>
> 			</FieldValuePair>
> 			<FieldValuePair
> field="BuyerFullNameStreetCityStateZipPhone">
> ERROR --->			<xsl:attribute
> name="value"><xsl:value-of
> select="$buyerblock"/></xsl:attribute>
> 			</FieldValuePair>
> 		</FieldValuePairs>
> 	</xsl:template>
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> Chris Bordeman