XSLT match text then following sibling

tgow

Hi Everyone,

I have the following XML:

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 <input type ="Data">

      <parameter name ="Name">

             <variable type="Static">

                    <![CDATA[site]]>

             </variable>

      </parameter>

      <parameter name="Value">

             <variable type="Static">

                    <![CDATA[joe]]>

             </variable>

      </parameter>

</input>

I need to match the variable text(site) and grab the variable text(joe). I am not sure how to use the "following-sibling" syntax in this example.

Thanks in advance,

Todd

Dormilich

Quote:

Originally Posted by tgow

I need to match the variable text(site) and grab the variable text(joe).

could you elaborate? I do not understand the requirement.

if you want to match text(joe) from text(site) it would be

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ancestor::parameter/following-sibling::parameter/variable

jkmyoung

??

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<xsl:variable name="name" select="'site'"/>

<xsl:value-of select="//input[parameter[@name = 'Name'] = $name]/parameter[@name='Value']"/>

tgow

I have a large XML files that repeats the following XML:

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<script>

  <action>

    <actions>

     <postdata>

        <input type="Data">

            <parameter name="Name">

               <variable type="Static">

                  <![CDATA[trans]]>

               </variable>

            <parameter name="Value">

                <variable type="Static">

                  <![CDATA[hello]]>

            </variable>

        </input>

        <input type="Data">

            <parameter name="Name">

               <variable type="Static">

                  <![CDATA[site]]>

               </variable>

            <parameter name="Value">

                <variable type="Static">

                  <![CDATA[joe]]>

            </variable>

        </input>
 
......

I have written the following xsl which pulls it but the XPATH is hardcoded:

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<xsl:value-of select="//script/actions/action/postdata/input[@type = 'Data'][2]/parameter[@name = 'Value']"</xsl:value-of>

Each XML file is the same but the "<input></input>" order could be different so I really need the "<parameter name="Value"> CDATA value which is "joe" but this will be different every time. I was trying to look for the "<parameter name="Name">" CDATA value which is "site" because this is consistent and grab the "following::sibling" possibly.

I hope this makes more sense.

Thanks again,

Todd

jkmyoung

replace the [2] with
[parameter[@name = 'Name'] = 'site']

tgow

Thanks for the reply. This gets me closer but it is just a Boolean true/false. What I would like to do in pseudo-code is if the following:

if (site = true) exists
then
grab the following-sibling value (joe)

Do I need to use a variable for this or the choose logic?

Thanks in advance,

Todd

jkmyoung

? If you already know the value is joe, why bother grabbing it?

tgow

The value of "joe" is dynamic. The value of "site" is static. If I find "site" the I need the following sibling which is the value of "joe" in my example but it could be anything.

Thanks again,

Todd

jkmyoung

I don't understand what was wrong with the solution:

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<xsl:value-of select="//script/actions/action/postdata/input[@type = 'Data'][parameter[@name = 'Name'] = 'site']/parameter[@name = 'Value']"/>

tgow

It works..thanks for you help.

Just an issue between the chair and the keyboard. ;^)

Thanks again,

Todd

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