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RE: Conditional Assigining
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Conditional Assigining
- From: "Sri ni" <srini75 at hotmail dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 09:01:29 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Thanks all for your help, but please help me to solve this problem.
Here is my xml
section.xml
----------------
<Section>
<sectionID>1</sectionID>
<parentID>0</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1000</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 1</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>2</sectionID>
<parentID>0</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1001</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 2</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>5</sectionID>
<parentID>1</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1004</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 1.1</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>11</sectionID>
<parentID>1</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1008</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 1.2</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>10</sectionID>
<parentID>5</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1012</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 1.1.1</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>19</sectionID>
<parentID>10</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1012</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 1.1.1.1</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>6</sectionID>
<parentID>2</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1005</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 2.1</text>
</Section>
<Section>
<sectionID>12</sectionID>
<parentID>2</parentID>
<bulletinID>1</bulletinID>
<groupID>1</groupID>
<dictionaryID>1009</dictionaryID>
<text>Section 2.2</text>
</Section>
My xsl:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="First"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="First">
<!--<xsl:for-each select="Section[parentID='0']"> -->
<xsl:for-each select="Section">
<xsl:variable name="ID" select="sectionID"/>
<xsl:value-of select="text"/>
<xsl:for-each select="../Section[parentID=$ID]">
<xsl:value-of select="text"/><br/>
<xsl:variable name="ID" select="sectionID"/>
<!-- currentID = <xsl:value-of select="$ID" />-->
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- <xsl:variable name="ID" select="sectionID"/>
sectionid afterloop= <xsl:value-of select="$ID" />-->
<!-- <xsl:variable name="ID" select="text"/>
text afterloop = <xsl:value-of select="$ID" />-->
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
CURRENT OUTPUT:
-----------------
id 1
pid 0
text Section 1
id 5
pid 1
text Section 1.1
id 10
pid 5
text Section 1.1.1
id 19
pid 10
text Section 1.1.1.1
Desired Output
===============
id 1
pid 0
text Section 1
id 5
pid 1
text Section 1.1
id 10
pid 5
text Section 1.1.1
id 19
pid 10
text Section 1.1.1.1
id 11
pid 1
text Section 1.2
I am able to loop through the first part of the xml but when it comes to the
second part of the subsection i am not getting that output at all.
Can anyone please please help me out.
Thanks in advance,
Srini
>From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay@iclway.co.uk>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
>Subject: RE: [xsl] Conditional Assigining
>Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 17:15:17 +0100
>
> >
> > <xsl:variable name="ID">-1</xsl:variable>
> > <xsl:for-each select="Section[parentID='0']">
> > <xsl:if test="$ID=-1">
> > <xsl:variable name="ID" select="sectionID" />
> > </xsl:if>
> > id <xsl:value-of select="$ID"/>
> >
>XSLT isn't a sequential programming language, you are trying to use it as
>if
>it were. You can't do things in one iteration of xsl:for-each that affect
>subsequent iterations, because there is no such thing as "subsequent" in a
>non-sequential language. (See my XSLT Programmer's Reference for an essay
>on
>the subject...)
>
>Instead you want something like
>
><xsl:for-each select="Section[parentID='0']">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="preceding-sibling::Section[parentID='0']">
> <xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::Section[parentID='0'][1]"/>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>-1</xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
></xsl:for-each>
>
>That works because it expresses the output as a function of the input.
>
>Mike Kay
>
>
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