Hi Will,
The easiest way would be pass the <header> node as param to the templates as
they are applied, e.g.
== XSL1 ==========================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="file">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="header"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="header">
<h3>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</h3>
<!-- apply to all details and footers that follow this header -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="(following-sibling::detail |
following-sibling::footer)[generate-id(preceding-sibling::header[1]) =
generate-id(current())]">
<xsl:with-param name="hdr" select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="detail">
<xsl:param name="hdr"/>
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text> belongs to </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$hdr"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footer">
<xsl:param name="hdr"/>
<div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small;">
<xsl:text>(footer: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text> belongs to </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$hdr"/>
<xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
== end of XSL1 ===================================
Alternatively you could always get hold of the preceding <header> for each
<detail> and <footer> quite easily, e.g.
== XSL2 ==========================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="file">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="header"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="header">
<h3>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</h3>
<!-- apply to all details and footers that follow this header -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="(following-sibling::detail |
following-sibling::footer)[generate-id(preceding-sibling::header[1]) =
generate-id(current())]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="detail">
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text> belongs to </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::header[1]"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footer">
<div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small;">
<xsl:text>(footer: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text> belongs to </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="preceding-sibling::header[1]"/>
<xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
== end of XSL2 ===================================
Hope this helps
Marrow
http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator
"will" <wi***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:28**************************@posting.google.c om...
That looks pretty good thanks marrow, but it needs to be taken a bit
further
I need to pass the name of the header into its corresponding details
somehow. So for the xml/xslt you describe below we could have the
following result...
<html>
<body>
<h3>header1</h3>
<div>detail 1 belongs to header 1</div>
<div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small;">(footer:
f1)</div>
<h3>header2</h3>
<div>detail 1 belongs to header 2</div>
<div>detail 2 belongs to header 2</div>
<div>detail 3 belongs to header 2</div>
<div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small;">(footer:
f2)</div>
<h3>header3</h3>
<div>detail 1 belongs to header 3</div>
<div>detail 2 belongs to header 3</div>
<div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small;">(footer:
f3)</div>
</body>
</html>
with the detail tags saying which header they "belong" to..
thanks agian for your help..
"Marrow" <marrow-NO-@-SPAM-marrowsoft.com> wrote in message
news:<g4***************@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net>...
Hi Will,
So you can see which <detail> and <footer> elements are getting
pushed....
== XML ==========================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<file>
<header>h1</header>
<detail>d1</detail>
<footer>f1</footer>
<header>h2</header>
<detail>d2.1</detail>
<detail>d2.2</detail>
<detail>d2.3</detail>
<footer>f2</footer>
<header>h3</header>
<detail>d3.1</detail>
<detail>d3.2</detail>
<footer>f3</footer>
</file>
== end of XML ===================================
Try something like...
== XSL ==========================================
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="file">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="header"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="header">
<h3>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</h3>
<!-- apply to all details and footers that follow this header -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="(following-sibling::detail |
following-sibling::footer)[generate-id(preceding-sibling::header[1]) =
generate-id(current())]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="detail">
<div>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="footer">
<div style="font-style: italic; font-size: small;">
<xsl:text>(footer: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
== end of XSL ===================================
Hope this helps
Marrow
http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger)
http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator
"will" <wi***********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:28**************************@posting.google.c om... HOpe you can help with this...
I have the following xml document...
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<file>
<header>some data</header>
<detail> some more data</detail>
<footer> gdshada </footer>
<header>some data</header>
<detail> some more data</detail>
<detail> some more data</detail>
<detail> some more data</detail>
<footer> gdshada </footer>
<header>some data</header>
<detail> some more data</detail>
<detail> some more data</detail>
<footer> gdshada </footer>
</file>
I am using xslt to process these header detail records.
The question is how can i select the subsets of detail tags in turn
for processing as they are on the same level in terms of hierachy
I would maybe like to do something similar to ..
<xsl:for-each select="following::DETAIL[position() >=
$header_position and position() <= $footer_position]">
... but how can i determine the header and footer position?
Thanks for any help..
Will
