XSLT : Amend element value

[bharadwajrv]

Hi,

i need to amend the value stored in the element in XSLT and this needs to be carried out with in a <template> code..

Please can you help me how to do this?

in the below code, in "GetTypeListValue" template call i need to amend the value stored in the input parameter (NodeName) with the value derived with in the template..

Thanks in adv for your help/comments

Cheer
Venu

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  >
 
    <xsl:template name="GetTypeListValue">
        <xsl:param name="NodeName"/>
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:variable name="sInput" select="$NodeName"></xsl:variable>
            <xsl:variable name="sTLValue">
                <xsl:choose>
                    <xsl:when test="$sInput = '01'"><xsl:value-of  select="Description1"/></xsl:when>
                    <xsl:when test="$sInput = '02'"><xsl:value-of  select="Description2"/></xsl:when>
                </xsl:choose>
            </xsl:variable> 
            <xsl:value-of select="$sTLValue"/>
             <!-- i need to update the value stored $NodeName with the derived value $sTLValue here.. -->  
 
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
 
 
    <xsl:template name="Get_CustomerDetail">
        <xsl:call-template name="GetTypeListValue">
            <xsl:with-param name="NodeName" select="/CompositionRequest/Request/Type"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:template>
 
    <!-- copy the data -->
    <xsl:template match="*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
 
</xsl:stylesheet>
 

[jkmyoung]

What you're doing seems like a really roundabout way of accomplishing what you want. Could you post some source xml, and expected xml, highlighting the change? There's probably a better way to do this.

Where is your template even called?

[bharadwajrv]

Hi,

thanks for looking at this.

i need to reuse the template to get the description for below node, hence i thought of calling the templae by passing the element-path as input parameter.
Please let me know if anything wrong here.

1) /CompositionRequest/Request/Type
2) /CompositionRequest/Request/Data/Type[@id='1']
3) /CompositionRequest/Request/Data/Type[@id='2']


Thanks for your help

Cheers
Venu

This is the sample XML as the original XML is big and i can't re-build the expected XML in the XSLT - hence i'm copying it and trying to amend selected element value.

Source XML (elements that needs to be changed are in bold)

<CompositionRequest>
    <Request>
        <Type>01</Type>
        <Data>
            <Type id='1'>02</Type>
            <Type id='2'>03</Type>
            <custname>Jones</custname>
        </Data>
        <Header>
            <template_name>V8_1</template_name>
            <version>000125</version>
            <job_date>2008/06/10</job_date>
            <job_id>12455252</job_id>
        </Header>
    </Request>
</CompositionRequest>
 

Expected XML (elements that needs to be changed are in bold)

<CompositionRequest>
    <Request>
        <Type>Description1</Type>
        <Data>
            <Type id='1'>Description2</Type>
            <Type id='2'>Description3</Type>
            <custname>Jones</custname>
        </Data>
        <Header>
            <template_name>V8_1</template_name>
            <version>000125</version>
            <job_date>2008/06/10</job_date>
            <job_id>12455252</job_id>
        </Header>
    </Request>
</CompositionRequest>
 

[jkmyoung]

Are you changing all Type nodes in general, or only the specified ones?
If it's all the type nodes, it would be simpler to have a 'Type' template.

<xsl:template match="Type">
  <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test=". = '01'"><xsl:value-of  select="Description1"/></xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test=". = '02'"><xsl:value-of  select="Description2"/></xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise><xsl:value-of select="Description"/></xsl:otherwise>
     </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
 

Further, are you looking for nodes Description1, Description2, etc. or are you using the text "Description1"? If just the text, then add single quotes around it ('text') or get rid of the <xsl:value-of> part, so it is treated as text. eg
<xsl:otherwise>Description</xsl:otherwise>

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If it's only the xpath specified ones, it becomes a lot harder. You'd have to use an evaluate extension function to do this easily.