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RE: Novice question: selecting an element based on an attribute id
- From: "Brinkman, Theodore" <Theodore dot Brinkman at standardregister dot com>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:39:21 -0500
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Novice question: selecting an element based on an attribute id
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It looks like he's trying to use the myIdRef="28" in the second String tag
to reference the contents of the first string tag which has a myId="28"
attribute value. (i.e.: turning a reference in the input xml into the
contents of the reference in the output xml)
I'd think a template that took in the myIdRef attribute's value as a
parameter and selected the String tag with the same value in the myId
attribute and returned the contents would do the trick.
Unfortunately, I'm enough of a newbie myself, that attempting to provide an
example would just serve to embarass me.
- Theo
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:25 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: RE: [xsl] Novice question: selecting an element based on an
attribute id
> I'm an novice user of XSLT but was tasked to transform an
> incoming XML file into another format. So far so good but I
> ran into a perplexing problem. Here's the short example of an
> incoming XML file:
>
> <object>
> <class name="TestF">
> <field name="_str1" type="java.lang.String"/>
> <field name="_str3" type="java.lang.String"/>
> </class>
> <String field="_str1" myId="28"><![CDATA[a test of
> referencing.]]></String>
> <String field="_str3" myIdRef="28"/>
> </object>
>
> This needs to be transformed simply to
>
> </object>
> <_str1><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str1>
> <_str3><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str3>
> </object>
>
> As you can see,
I may be blind, but I can't see. Could you explain more clearly the
relationship of your output to your input?
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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