Hello!

Let's suppose we have an XML with some nested NODE nodes:

<root attr="first">
<node id="1" attr="mike">
<node id="2" />
<node id="3" attr="dave" />
</node>
<node id="4">
<node id="5" attr="peter" />
</node>
</root>

What I want to achieve is to have an XSL that:
- takes a $id variable externally from a PHP script
- finds the node with @id=$id
- outputs the value "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the parent's
"@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the grandparent's... recursively
traversing from parent to parent, until an @attr value is found

This won't work for some nodes:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
<xslutput method="html" />
<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@id=$id]" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(@attr)"><xsl:apply-templates ".." /></xsl:when>
<xsltherwise><xsl:value-of select="@attr" /></xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Ebenezer wrote:

> What I want to achieve is to have an XSL that:
> - takes a $id variable externally from a PHP script
> - finds the node with @id=$id
> - outputs the value "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the parent's
> "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the grandparent's... recursively
> traversing from parent to parent, until an @attr value is found
>
> This won't work for some nodes:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
> <xslutput method="html" />

You need to define the id parameter
<xslaram name="id"/>

> <xsl:template match="root">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@id=$id]" />
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="node">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="not(@attr)"><xsl:apply-templates ".."
> /></xsl:when>

That is not the correct syntax, you need
<xsl:apply-templates select=".."/>
Also it is not clear what you want to do if you do not find a 'node'
ancestor element with an 'attr' attribute.
If you walk up to the 'root element then the template matching that will
lead to infinite recursion. So perhaps you should better use
<xsl:apply-templates select="parent::node"/>
Or if you want to walk up to the 'root' element as well you need a mode e.g.
<xsl:apply-templates select=".." mode="attribute-check"/>

and then you need to add that mode parameter to the template e.g.


<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@id=$id]"
mode="attribute-check" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node | root" mode="attribute-check">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(@attr)"><xsl:apply-templates
select="parent::*" /></xsl:when>
<xsltherwise><xsl:value-of select="@attr" /></xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>




--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Martin Honnen ha scritto:
> Ebenezer wrote:
>
>> What I want to achieve is to have an XSL that:
>> - takes a $id variable externally from a PHP script
>> - finds the node with @id=$id
>> - outputs the value "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the
>> parent's "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the grandparent's...
>> recursively traversing from parent to parent, until an @attr value is
>> found
>>
>> This won't work for some nodes:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
>> <xslutput method="html" />
>
> You need to define the id parameter
> <xslaram name="id"/>

Are you sure? I don't know if it's a standard behaviour, but other
stylesheet's I've made take the parameters with no effort or definition...

> That is not the correct syntax, you need
> <xsl:apply-templates select=".."/>

Sorry, that was my mistake in pasting the code, it's with "select" indeed...

> Also it is not clear what you want to do if you do not find a 'node'
> ancestor element with an 'attr' attribute.
> If you walk up to the 'root element then the template matching that will
> lead to infinite recursion. So perhaps you should better use
> <xsl:apply-templates select="parent::node"/>

Yes! There was an infinite recursion indeed but I didn't find a clue on
it...

> Or if you want to walk up to the 'root' element as well you need a mode
> e.g.
> <xsl:apply-templates select=".." mode="attribute-check"/>
>
> and then you need to add that mode parameter to the template e.g.

This info was really valuable. Thanks a lot and excuse me for the multipost.

Ebenezer <vaciapairat@spam.com> wrote in
<bRgLk.86409$Ca.20678@twister2.libero.it>:
> <root attr="first">
> <node id="1" attr="mike">
> <node id="2" />
> <node id="3" attr="dave" />
> </node>
> <node id="4">
> <node id="5" attr="peter" />
> </node>
> </root>
>
> What I want to achieve is to have an XSL that:
> - takes a $id variable externally from a PHP script
> - finds the node with @id=$id
> - outputs the value "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT,
> otherwise the parent's "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT,
> otherwise the grandparent's... recursively traversing from
> parent to parent, until an @attr value is found

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xslaram name="id"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select=
"(//node[@id=$id]/ancestor-or-self::*/@attr)[last()]"
/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

HTH, HAND.

--
If we want the average quality of computer programs to rise
by 1000%, all we have to do is carefully to select 90% of
the world's programmers, and shoot them. --Richard
Heathfield in <Sfedncgr46kOPmDanZ2dnUVZ8vCdnZ2d@bt.com>

Actually, this can be achieved with a single XPath one-liner (even without
XSLT being involved).

Use:

//node[@id = $id]/ancestor-or-self::*[@attr][1]/@attr


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev


"Ebenezer" <vaciapairat@spam.com> wrote in message
news:bRgLk.86409$Ca.20678@twister2.libero.it...
> Hello!
>
> Let's suppose we have an XML with some nested NODE nodes:
>
> <root attr="first">
> <node id="1" attr="mike">
> <node id="2" />
> <node id="3" attr="dave" />
> </node>
> <node id="4">
> <node id="5" attr="peter" />
> </node>
> </root>
>
> What I want to achieve is to have an XSL that:
> - takes a $id variable externally from a PHP script
> - finds the node with @id=$id
> - outputs the value "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the parent's
> "@attr" attribute IF PRESENT, otherwise the grandparent's... recursively
> traversing from parent to parent, until an @attr value is found
>
> This won't work for some nodes:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0">
> <xslutput method="html" />
> <xsl:template match="root">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//node[@id=$id]" />
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="node">
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="not(@attr)"><xsl:apply-templates ".." /></xsl:when>
> <xsltherwise><xsl:value-of select="@attr" /></xsltherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

"Richard Tobin" <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:gdsk17$2hbq$1@pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk...
> In article <490139f9$0$17067$6e1ede2f@read.cnntp.org>,
> Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@cnntp.org> wrote:
>
>>Actually, this can be achieved with a single XPath one-liner (even without
>>XSLT being involved).
>>
>>Use:
>>
>> //node[@id = $id]/ancestor-or-self::*[@attr][1]/@attr
>
> Or, if you find it clearer not to repeat @attr:
>
> (//node[@id = $id]/ancestor-or-self::*/@attr)[last()]
>

This may be "clearer" but risks to be less efficient.

Using [1] in a reverse axis is a strong optimization hint and a clever XPath
engine will not traverse the whole way up -- it wil just stop on the first
self-or-ancestor element found that has an "attr" attribute.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev