[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: Hash / Translation Tables (the right way)

Subject: Re: Hash / Translation Tables (the right way)
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:43:15 -0400
Re:  Hash / Translation Tables (the right way)
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


--
Contact us for world-wide XML consulting and instructor-led training
Crane Softwrights Ltd.            http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/
G. Ken Holman                   mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Google+ profile: https://plus.google.com/116832879756988317389/about
Legal business disclaimers:    http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal

Current Thread

PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!

Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced!

Buy Stylus Studio Now

Download The World's Best XML IDE!

Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today!

Don't miss another message! Subscribe to this list today.
Email
First Name
Last Name
Company
Subscribe in XML format
RSS 2.0
Atom 0.3
Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are products from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2013 All Rights Reserved.