XSL: gathering summary data from XML -file

[comma]

Hi all,

I would like to ask a couple of questions about XSL transformation of XML -file. I've tried to look examples, but unfortunately not found any specifically for these issues.

1)
I have the following kind of XML -logfile (rough example):

<testlog type="Device testlog">
  <selftests name="Self tests">
    <test name="Memory test">
      <subtest name="Shared RAM">
        ... some test data here ...
        <result value="PASSED" />
      </subtest>
      <subtest name="Video memory">
        ... some test data here ...
        <result value="FAILED" />
      </subtest>
      <result value="FAILED" />
    </test>
    <test name="Led test">
      ...
      <result value="PASSED" />
    </test>
  </selftests>
</testlog>

I use XSL to transform this XML to HTML. I would like to gather summary about the tests (how many passed, failed etc.) and their sub-tests and eventually maybe show this summary on top of the file and then make hyperlink to the actual test data lower on the converted HTML.

I was wondering if it's possible to gather summary with XSL, since the templates will transform the file sequentially. Or is there a way.

2) Is it possible to somehow bind two (or) more XSL stylesheets in one XML -file and show e.g. a menu, from which the user could choose an action, e.g. one could show whole log and the other only summary?

Any tips or links would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

 

[JSpicolli]

You mean something like this?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]

	<xsl:output method="html"/>

	<xsl:template match="/">
		<b>The following test's Failed.</b><br/>
		<xsl:apply-templates select="//result[@value = 'FAILED']"/>

		<b>The following test's Passed.</b><br/>
		<xsl:apply-templates select="//result[@value = 'PASSED']"/>	

	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="//result[@value = 'FAILED']">
		
		<xsl:value-of select="../@name"/>
		<br/>
	</xsl:template>

	<xsl:template match="//result[@value = 'PASSED']">
		<xsl:value-of select="../@name"/>
		<br/>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

 

[comma]

Yes, thank you, now I can proceed a bit further.

Btw, is it possible to bind multiple stylesheets to one page, so that e.g. by clicking a link, only some of the data would be shown, e.g. only summary data. And the other one would show all the data?

 

[gohankid77]

That's what databases are for

"Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

[JSpicolli]

yeah, use input parameters