Re: XSL stylesheet issue (newbie)

Look up the generate-id function if you want a unique id value.
Perhaps prefix it with a constant if needed?

HTH

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 at 18:21, Frank Dissinger frank.dissinger@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The stylesheet below is supposed to add a unique 'id' attribute named
> 'tocref001', 'tocref002' etc. to all <h2>, <h3> and <p class="rn_heading">
> elements which are descendants of an element with an 'id' attribute named
> 'rn_release_notes'. The script runs without any errors, but does not add
> any IDs.
>
> I admit that I have little to no knowledge of XSLT. ChatGPT was my friend.
> But I have created a small HTML file and an XSL stylesheet with slightly
> simpler XPath expressions which works fine. But it does not work with a
> more complex HTML file. I have attached such a file to this message. A
> colleague who is a software developer tried to debug the stylesheet with
> Visual Studio, but without success.
>
> The purpose of this script, when finished, is to create a Table of
> Contents for an HTML file. The current state of it is only to add hyperlink
> targets to the relevant headings.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>
>   <!-- Output settings for HTML5 -->
>   <xsl:output method="html"
>               encoding="UTF-8"
>               indent="yes"/>
>
>   <!-- Identity template to copy all elements and attributes -->
>   <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
>     </xsl:copy>
>   </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- Adding id=toc001 attributes to headings to create hyperlink targets
> for the TOC -->
> <xsl:template match="*[@id='rn_release_notes']//h2 |
> *[@id='rn_release_notes']//h3 |
> *[@id='rn_release_notes']//p[@class='rn_heading']">
>
>     <xsl:variable name="id">
>        <xsl:number level="any" count="*[@id='rn_release_notes']//h2 |
> *[@id='rn_release_notes']//h3 |
> *[@id='rn_release_notes']//p[@class='rn_heading']" format="000"/>
>     </xsl:variable>
>
>    <xsl:copy>
>         <xsl:attribute name="id">tocref<xsl:value-of
> select="$id"/></xsl:attribute>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*[name() != 'id']"/>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>     </xsl:copy>
>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
>


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