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RE: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions

You would really be much better off asking these questions on xsl-list at mulberrytech.com, especially at times when xml-dev is descending down philosophical rat-holes, which means the practical guys are hitting the delete button...
 
Most of your attempts look correct, assuming you have got the namespace right. They are all more complicated than they need to be; the following would do fine
 
    <xsl:template match="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">

         <xsl:for-each select="ns:a">

           <hobbies><xsl:value-of select="."/></hobbies>

         </xsl:for-each>

       </xsl:template>

If that doesn't work, there are two explanations: either you've got the namespace declaration for "ns" wrong, or you aren't applying templates to the relevant <p> element. Either of those explanations would stop all the other attempts working as well. (It's a common story - people show us the code where they think the bug is, and all this reveals is that they are looking in the wrong place.)

Michael Kay

http://www.saxonica.com/

 
 


From: Jack Bush [mailto:netbeansfan@yahoo.com.au]
Sent: 02 February 2009 21:04
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] XSTL stylesheet workarounds for exceptions

Hi All,

 

I am at a stage of fine-tuning an existing stylesheet that has been worked on recently and would like include some workarounds to accommodate exceptional data in the following 2 areas:

 

( i ) Get the content of sub-elements <a> as follows:

<p>

  <strong>Hobbies:</strong>

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

  <a shape="rect" href="http://www.hobbies.com/hunting title="Animal">rabbit</a>

(Out-door adventures)

</p>

 

Intended output

<hobbies> fishing<hobbies>

<hobbies> rabbit<hobbies>

 

In this case, it is both fishing, rabbit that I am after. However, I still couldn’t get it working despite having tried numerous of the following stylesheet approaches:

 

<xsl:template match="/">

  <employee>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="//ns:p"/>

  </employee>

</xsl:template>

 

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

         <xsl:copy-of             

           <hobbies>select="ns:a"/></hobbies>

       </xsl:template>

               or

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

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

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

         </xsl:for-each>

       </xsl:template>

               or

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

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

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

         </xsl:for-each>

       </xsl:template>

              or

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

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

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

         </xsl:for-each>

       </xsl:template>

               or

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

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

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

         </xsl:for-each>

       </xsl:template>

               or

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

         <xsl:for-each select="ns:a">

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

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

          </xsl:for-each>

        </xsl:for-each>

     </xsl:template>

               or

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

          <xsl:for-each select=".//ns:a">

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

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

            </xsl:for-each>

          </xsl:for-each>

        </xsl:template>

 

( ii ) I also like to add a default generic value for any missing element. Say if there are no

<p><strong>Hobbies:</strong></p> element in such document, yet I still would like to generate a

null element such as <hobbies>Unknown</hobbies>. The intended stylesheet should look

like the following but again couldn’t get it working still:

 

<xsl:template match="/">

  <employee>

    <xsl:apply-templates select="//ns:p"/>

  </employee>

</xsl:template>

 

<xsl: choose>

  <xsl: when test="ns:p[ns:strong='Hobbies:']">

    <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>

  </xsl:when>

<xsl:otherwise>

  <hobbies>Unknown</hobbies>

</xsl:otherwise>

</xsl: choose>

 

I have run out of ideas and would be very much appreciated if anyone could give me some suggestion on how to tackle this task.

Jack





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