Outputting text and subelements within XML using XSLT 1

[TeaAddictedGeek]

I have an overly complicated bit of XML that I have to analyze using an XSLT stylesheet, and parts of it go like this:

<parent_node>
Lots and lots and lots and lots of text here
<child_node1>more text</child_node1>
<child_node2>
even more text
<child_node3>the text never ends!</child_node3>
</child_node2>
</parent_node>

How do I get it to output the text inside of parent_node via the XSL tags without accidently repeating what is in child_node1? I can't seem to get that part to work. I'm a little new at this I admit, and I checked the archives but couldn't find an answer.


Thanks!

 

[tsuji]

Materially like this. (position 1 is just for fixing a context node to be concrete.)
[tt]
<xsl:template match="//parent_note[1]">
<xsl:value-of select="string()" />
</xsl:template>
[/tt]

 

[TeaAddictedGeek]

What if you have cases like this?

<child_node1>
Lots of text, <textstyle logic="bold">this text is bold</textstyle>, and more text
</child_node1>
<child_node2>
<textstyle logic="italic">This text is italicized</textstyle> and there's even more text
</child_node2>


Thanks!

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."
-Joseph Weizenbaum

 

[tsuji]

For another instance, if that makes you see more clearly.

[tt]<xsl:for-each select="//child_node1">
<xsl:value-of select="string()" />
</xsl:for-each>[/tt]

Mathematically called self-similarity, you relist a fragment which is in essence the same as the 1st post, only changing names etc. xpath is in good position to handle that kind of sturcture.

 

[TeaAddictedGeek]

I'm trying to do that, but it repeats the string so that the output looks like this:


Lots of text, this text is bold, and more text this text is bold


What am I doing wrong?

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."
-Joseph Weizenbaum

 

[tsuji]

You have multiple template.

 

[TeaAddictedGeek]

I'm not using multiple templates, no. The problem is trying to evaluate the text formatting and rules based on the different child text nodes. Otherwise this would be a piece of cake.

"The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."
-Joseph Weizenbaum

 

[tsuji]

So what is your xsl and xml. Cake or non-cake, it does not solve any problem and does not demonstrate your forthcoming with put forward a well-posed problem.

 

[k5tm]

Try running this stylesheet against your XML document.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates  mode="showme" />
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="*" mode="showme">
    <xsl:element name="{local-name(.)}">
      <xsl:attribute name="localname"><xsl:value-of select="local-name(.)"/></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="parentname"><xsl:value-of select="local-name(parent::*)"/></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="position"><xsl:value-of select="position()"/></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name() != '']" mode="showme"/>
    </xsl:element>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Take this and play with it, and you will probably get a better feel about how text nodes operate.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com