Selcting filtered node set based on variable

[Bradford]

Question for the masses...

Lets say I have variable with the following contents
"aaaa bbbb ccccc dddd". The format is not specific and the space
delimiter could be changed to any other.

How would i count and/or select the nodes where a child nodes value is
not contained in this list. Or the reverse scenario would be sufficent
whereas I count the nodes whose child nodes value is contained.

A contrived example of my situation follows...thanks for the help.

<root>
<limbs>
<branch>
<name>a</name>
<flower>big</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>b</name>
<flower>big</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>c</name>
<flower>large</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>d</name>
<flower>giant</flower>
</branch>
</limbs>
<root>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="Exclude">
<xsl:value-of select="big large"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="DomainCount">
<xsl:value-of select="count(//branch[contains($Exclude,
flower)])"/>
</xsl:variable>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

[Joris Gillis]

> Question for the masses...

Panem et circenses Lets say I have variable with the following contents
"aaaa bbbb ccccc dddd". The format is not specific and the space
delimiter could be changed to any other.

How would i count and/or select the nodes where a child nodes value is
not contained in this list. Or the reverse scenario would be sufficent
whereas I count the nodes whose child nodes value is contained.

A contrived example of my situation follows...thanks for the help.

<root>
<limbs>
<branch>
<name>a</name>
<flower>big</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>b</name>
<flower>big</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>c</name>
<flower>large</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>d</name>
<flower>giant</flower>
</branch>
</limbs>
</root>

Hi,

In this situation, the following stylesheet might work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="Exclude">
big large
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="DomainCount">
<xsl:value-of select="count(//branch[not(contains($Exclude,flower))])"/>
</xsl:variable>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

regards,
--
Joris Gillis (http://www.ticalc.org/cgi-bin/acct-v...i?userid=38041)
Ceterum censeo XML omnibus esse utendum

[David Carlisle]

<xsl:variable name="Exclude">
<xsl:value-of select="big large"/>
</xsl:variable>

note it's simpler and a lot more efficient to do

<xsl:variable name="Exclude" select="' big large '"/>

(and you'd omitted the quotes around the string 'big large'.)
I added a space at either end as well (used below)

<xsl:variable name="DomainCount">
<xsl:value-of select="count(//branch[contains($Exclude,
flower)])"/>
</xsl:variable>

again that would be better as

<xsl:variable name="DomainCount" select="count(//branch[contains($Exclude,
flower)])"/>
which works but to avoid the possibility of one name being a substring
of the other, you can append a space to either side:
<xsl:variable name="DomainCount" select="count(//branch[contains($Exclude,
concat(' ',flower, ' '))])"/>

so:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="Exclude" select="' big large '"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:variable name="DomainCount" select="count(//branch[contains($Exclude,
concat(' ',flower, ' '))])"/>
[<xsl:value-of select="$DomainCount"/>]
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
<root>
<limbs>
<branch>
<name>a</name>
<flower>big</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>b</name>
<flower>big</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>c</name>
<flower>large</flower>
</branch>
<branch>
<name>d</name>
<flower>giant</flower>
</branch>
</limbs>
</root>
$ saxon flower.xml flower.xsl

[3]

3 nodes have flower= big or large