Fw: [xml-dev] XSLT stylesheet looping through the same node (recursion?)

Hi Michael,

Just want to let you know that I have been able to get the value 'fishing' with the following lines of code even though I am still puzzled as to why it is not necessary to go back up to previous level ( - assuming currently in Hobbies:):

<xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">

<xsl:for-each select="ns:a/text()[normalize-space() != '']">

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

Thanks again for all your help,

Jack

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@yahoo.com.au>
To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Sent: Thursday, 29 January, 2009 6:44:49 AM
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] XSLT stylesheet looping through the same node (recursion?)

Hi Michael,

No, I was using NotePad++ which displayed it different to with Internet Explorer this time:

-

Hobbies:

<a shape="rect" href=http://www.hobbies.com/fishing title="Shark Hunting">fishing</a>

Thanks for pointing this out,

Jack

From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@yahoo.com.au>; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Sent: Thursday, 29 January, 2009 12:27:45 AM
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSLT stylesheet looping through the same node (recursion?)

We are finally seeing the light at the end of this tunnel. I managed to extract every element values in (single/multiples) except one with the following structure:

Hobbies:

<a shape="rect" href="http://www.hobbies.com/fishing" title="Shark Hunting">Coral Bay</a>

fishing



I tried the following combinations to get the value 'fishing' without much luck:

<xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">

<xsl:for-each select="text()[normalize-space() != '']">

<hobbies><xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/></hobbies>

</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

This should work. But you said that <hobbies><xsl:value-of select="../ns:a"/></hobbies> works (starting from the element). I would expect that to return <hobbies>Coral Bay</hobbies>. Are you sure the input is what you say it is?

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

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