Re: Fw:

["mohamed" <mohamed at b-bop dot com>]

Thanks Steve, I like your solution a lot but for some reason it's giving me
a
java.net.MalformedURLException: : java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException:
String index out of range: 0

at this line
>       <xsl:element name="{document('')/*/xsl:template[@name='attr-map']
>                           /map[@attr=name($attr-set[1])]/@elem}">

any ideas?

----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Tinney <stinney@sas.upenn.edu>
To: <xsl-list@mulberrytech.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:31 PM
Subject: Re: Fw:


> > mohamed wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to call templates based on attribute names:
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> >  <testText >
> >      <text bold="yes">WITH BOLD</text>
> >      <text bold="yes" italic="yes"> WITH BOLD AND ITALIC</text>
> >  </testText>
> > so I declared templates that are called and match bold and italics,
> >
> >  <xsl:template match="bold" name="bold">
> >   <b>
> >     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </b>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="italics" name="italics">
> >   <i>
> >     <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > </i>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > and I want to get an output as follows:
> > <b>WITH BOLD</b>
> > <b><i>WITH BOLD AND ITALIC</i></b>
>
> Here is a version which marries recursion and an in-sheet map of
> attribute names to element names to produce something which is a bit
> funky to read, but very easy to maintain if you have a 1:1 correlation
> of attribute names to elements---you just add entries to the map.
>
>  Steve
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template name="attr-map">
>   <map attr="bold"   elem="b"/>
>   <map attr="italic" elem="i"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="testText/text">
>   <xsl:call-template name="format-by-attribute"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template name="format-by-attribute">
>   <xsl:param name="attr-set" select="@*[.='yes']"/>
>   <xsl:variable name="nattr" select="count($attr-set)"/>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="$nattr = 0">
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>       <xsl:element name="{document('')/*/xsl:template[@name='attr-map']
>                           /map[@attr=name($attr-set[1])]/@elem}">
>         <xsl:choose>
>           <xsl:when test="$nattr = 1">
>             <xsl:apply-templates/>
>           </xsl:when>
>           <xsl:otherwise>
>             <xsl:call-template name="format-by-attribute">
>               <xsl:with-param name="attr-set"
>                select="$attr-set[position()>1]"/>
>             </xsl:call-template>
>           </xsl:otherwise>
>         </xsl:choose>
>       </xsl:element>
>     </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
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