Re: Stumped: XSL 1.0 recursive template

Thanks for the response Brandon. But I'm still having problems
understanding what's happening here. With the example I provided the
attribute values I am comparing are:
60, 60.09, 60.09, 60.09, 80.

The comparisons being returned are:
False, True, True, True. It's the last test evaluating to True that
confuses me. Why when I'm on the last desc value of 60.09 and the
following-sibling value is 80 (which is the last RECORDSECTION in the
transform) does it evaluate to TRUE? As a test I changed all the desc
values so that they were unique. I ran the transform and every test
came back True except for the first one.

So I fooled around with your suggestion and found that by putting the
[1]  when I recusively calling the template it worked. But I don't
know why.

      <xsl:call-template name="financialTemp">
        <xsl:with-param name="nextRecordParam"
select="$nextRecordParam[position() &gt; 1]"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="fincodeParam"
select="$nextRecordParam----[1]----/@desc"/>
      </xsl:call-template>

Thanks,

Dan

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Brandon Ibach
<brandon.ibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:09 PM, daniel whitney <dbf.whitney@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> Sorry if this gets posted twice ...
>>
>> I'm stumped. I cannot figure out why the @desc test in the
>> financialTemp template is always evaluating to true, when the values
>> being output are different.
>> I'm simply trying to remove lines with the same desc attribute value
>> in the RECORDSECTION[@colformat='colbody'] elements.
>
> The test is:   $fincodeParam = $nextRecordParam/@desc
>
> This will evaluate to true if the string value of $fincodeParam (the
> value of the "desc" attribute of the RECORDSECTION currently being
> processed) is equal to the value of the "desc" attribute of ANY
> following-sibling RECORDSECTION whose "colformat" attribute has a
> value of "colbody".
>
> I think you'll get what you want by putting a "[1]" before "/@desc" in
> the above test.
>
> -Brandon :)
>
>>           <xsl:for-each select="//RECORDSECTION[@colformat='colbody'][1]">
>>             <xsl:call-template name="financialTemp">
>>               <xsl:with-param name="nextRecordParam"
>> select="following-sibling::RECORDSECTION[@colformat='colbody']"/>
>>               <xsl:with-param name="fincodeParam" select="@desc"/>
>>             </xsl:call-template>
>>           </xsl:for-each>
>>
>>   <xsl:template name="financialTemp">
>>     <xsl:param name="nextRecordParam"/>
>>     <xsl:param name="fincodeParam"/>
>>
>>     <xsl:if test="$nextRecordParam[1]">
>>       <xsl:choose>
>>         <xsl:when test="$fincodeParam = $nextRecordParam/@desc">
> [...]
>>         </xsl:when>
>>         <xsl:otherwise>
> [...]
>>         </xsl:otherwise>
>>       </xsl:choose>
>>       <xsl:call-template name="financialTemp">
>>         <xsl:with-param name="nextRecordParam"
>> select="$nextRecordParam[position() &gt; 1]"/>
>>         <xsl:with-param name="fincodeParam"
select="$nextRecordParam/@desc"/>
>>       </xsl:call-template>
>>     </xsl:if>
>>   </xsl:template>