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Validating/enforcing a list of names (Was: Re: Detecting presence of attributes )
- To: mail at jenitennison dot com
- Subject: Validating/enforcing a list of names (Was: Re: [xsl] Detecting presence of attributes )
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 21:36:50 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Well done, Jeni!
Why don't we call it with a proper name -- isn't this a general method
of validating and enforcing a list of valid names?
I haven't seen this before -- shall we call it "the Tennison method"?
:o)))
Cheers,
Dimitre.
Jeni Tennison wrote:
Well, inspired by Dimitre's insight about id(), here's a solution that
doesn't involve recursive templates, as long as you don't mind
repeating in the stylesheet the list of allowed options:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet [
<!ATTLIST thesis:opt id ID #REQUIRED>
]>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:thesis="http://www.silmaril.ie/thesis"
exclude-result-prefixes="thesis">
<thesis:opts>
<thesis:opt id="foo" />
<thesis:opt id="bar" />
</thesis:opts>
<xsl:template match="thesis">
<xsl:text>Options: </xsl:text>
<xsl:variable name="options" select="@options" />
<!-- change the context to the stylesheet document -->
<xsl:for-each select="document('')/*">
<!-- get the id attributes of any options identified by ID -->
<xsl:for-each select="id($options)/@id">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It has the advantage that you can deal with bad values (e.g. if
'blort' wasn't actually allowed) within the stylesheet - if that's an
advantage.
Cheers,
Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/
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