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
