Re: Hash / Translation Tables (the right way)

I will try to remember in the future to say whether I need
to be compatible with 1.0.  Apparently that is an issue
often enough, although even using ant (where I am using this
presently) it's not difficult to specify a 2.0 compatible parser.

Except that my use of lower-case() earlier wouldn't work in XSLT 1. A
common way to get lower-case in XSLT 1 is with the translate() function.

Please forgive my haste in my earlier answer.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

At 2011-09-25 18:40 -0400, I wrote:

At 2011-09-25 23:35 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:

Another approach is to have a document months.xml

<months>
<month name='January' abbr='jan' num='01'/>
<month name='February' abbr='feb' num='02'/>
...
</months>

then

document('months.xml')/months/month[@abbr=lower-case($mon)]/@num

(or instead of a separate document you can put the lookup table in a
global variable in the stylesheet; but with XSLT 1.0 this relies on
the node-set() function.)

It can also be done in XSLT 1.0 without extensions by putting the
structure in a namespace at the top level of the stylesheet:

<hank:months>
<month name='January' abbr='jan' num='01'/>
<month name='February' abbr='feb' num='02'/>
...
</hank:months>

... and using the document() function:

document('')/*/hank:months/month[@abbr=lower-case($mon)]/@num

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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