xpath and for-each 1

[MrT2005]

demo xml file

<books>
<book>
<title>My Book</title>
<author>
<name>Mr. McGillicuddy</name>
<dob>01.01.1901</dob>
<city>Falafel</city>
</author>
</book>
</books>

Im trying to search the books and find the name
of the authors that match the $keyword parameter.

<xsl:for-each select="//books[.=$keyword]">

this doesnt work, any ideas?

 

[JontyMC]

<xsl:for-each select="//books[author/name = $keyword]">

Avoid using // as it will search all levels of the tree. Use "mypath/books..." instead.

 

[flumpy]

try something like [untested]:

<xsl:template match="*" >
    <xsl:apply-templates mode="keyword-search" select="//*[text() = $keyword]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title" mode="keyword-search">
    Title: <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    Author <xsl:value-of select="../author"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="author/name" mode="keyword-search">
   Title: <xsl:value-of select="../../title"/>
   Author: <xsl:value-of select="./name"/>
</xsl:template>

...etc..

you sometimes have to think laterally with xsl.


Hope that helps

Matt

 

[JontyMC]

They're just searching by author, not by any text. Nice idea though.

 

[MrT2005]

thanks JontyMC

works perfect!