XSL question-- walking a hierarchy

[Jim Bancroft]

Sorry for the basic nature of this question. I know XSL can do this, but I
don't recall a good method...

Say I have an xml structure like this:

<folder_structu re>
<folder name="folder1">
<file name="myfile"/>
</folder>
<folder name="folder2">
</folder>
<folder name="folder3">
<file name="somefile"/>
<file name="anotherfi le"/>
</folder>
<folder name="folder4">
<folder name="folder5">
<file name="newfile"/>
</folder>
</folder>
</folder_structur e>
I need to use XSL to whip up a series of file paths, like this:

folder1\myfile
folder3\somefil e
folder3\another file
folder4\folder5 \newfile

I'm having trouble with walking the subfolders; for instance, the
folder4\folder5 path above.

The file paths can be arbitrarily deep, and I'm stumped on how to create a
file <xsl:template > that recuruses up the tree and pulls all the parent
folder names. If you have any advice, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

[Dimitre Novatchev]

http://www.topxml.com/code/default.a...20010323001030
Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html
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Sorry for the basic nature of this question. I know XSL can do this, but I don't recall a good method...

Say I have an xml structure like this:

<folder_structu re>
<folder name="folder1">
<file name="myfile"/>
</folder>
<folder name="folder2">
</folder>
<folder name="folder3">
<file name="somefile"/>
<file name="anotherfi le"/>
</folder>
<folder name="folder4">
<folder name="folder5">
<file name="newfile"/>
</folder>
</folder>
</folder_structur e>
I need to use XSL to whip up a series of file paths, like this:

folder1\myfile
folder3\somefil e
folder3\another file
folder4\folder5 \newfile

I'm having trouble with walking the subfolders; for instance, the
folder4\folder5 path above.

The file paths can be arbitrarily deep, and I'm stumped on how to create a
file <xsl:template > that recuruses up the tree and pulls all the parent
folder names. If you have any advice, I'd be grateful. Thanks.

[Jim Bancroft]

Thanks, Dimitre.

I'm still a little unclear on how I'm supposed to use your snippet-- do
I paste it whole into my XSL code somewhere, then pass my node into it?
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http://www.topxml.com/code/default.a...20010323001030
Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html

[Dimitre Novatchev]

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Thanks, Dimitre.

I'm still a little unclear on how I'm supposed to use your snippet-- do I paste it whole into my XSL code somewhere, then pass my node into it?

In the snippet there is:

<xsl:variable name="theParmNo des" select="//namespace::*[local-name() =
'myNamespace']"/>

This causes the code to produce XPath expressions for all namespace nodes
having prefix 'myNamespace'.

If you want to get the XPath expression for a specific node, it should be
specified as the "theParmNod es" xsl:param

Of coourse, it is best to group the snippet into a named template, so that
it can be called from different places simply with

<xsl:with-param name="theParmNo des" select="."/>

Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html

[Jim Bancroft]

Ah, got it-- thanks again, Dimitre.

-Jim

In the snippet there is:

<xsl:variable name="theParmNo des" select="//namespace::*[local-name() =
'myNamespace']"/>

This causes the code to produce XPath expressions for all namespace nodes
having prefix 'myNamespace'.
<.....>