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Owen,
your solution making use of dyn:evaluate>()
is fine, but does not work in browsers, see here:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201008/msg00126.html
The problem with what you've got: ... is that it assumes elementName is only a single element's name. If it's an arbitrary XPath expression, the test will fail.
Dimitrie's solution was not for general XPath parsing, and the handling
of more than one node can simply be added to his solution by adding
<xsl:for-each ...>
s, see the diff below:
$ diff -u x.xsl y.xsl --- x.xsl 2010-08-13 14:53:42.000000000 +0200 +++ y.xsl 2010-08-14 11:59:42.000000000 +0200 @@ -40,15 +40,19 @@ <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="not(contains($pExpression, '/'))"> - <td><xsl:value-of select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]"/></td> + <xsl:for-each select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]"> + <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td> + </xsl:for-each> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> + <xsl:for-each select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=substring-before($pExpression, '/')]"> <xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue"> <xsl:with-param name="pExpression" select="substring-after($pExpression, '/')"/> <xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select= - "$pCurrentNode/*[name()=substring-before($pExpression, '/')]"/> + "."/> </xsl:call-template> + </xsl:for-each> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> $
Here is a pure XSLT 1.0 solution that doesn't use any extensions:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/STRUCT"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*/DATASET/DATA"/>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="STRUCT">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="COL"/>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="COL">
<td><xsl:value-of select="@colName"/></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="DATA">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/*/STRUCT/*/@nodeName">
<xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select="."/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@nodeName" name="getNodeValue">
<xsl:param name="pExpression" select="string(.)"/>
<xsl:param name="pCurrentNode"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(contains($pExpression, '/'))">
<td><xsl:value-of select="$pCurrentNode/*[name()=$pExpression]"/></td>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="getNodeValue">
<xsl:with-param name="pExpression"
select="substring-after($pExpression, '/')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pCurrentNode" select=
"$pCurrentNode/*[name()=substring-before($pExpression, '/')]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:
<ROOT>
<STRUCT>
<COL order="1" nodeName="FOO/BAR" colName="Foo Bar" />
<COL order="2" nodeName="FIZZ" colName="Fizz" />
</STRUCT>
<DATASET>
<DATA>
<FIZZ>testFizz</FIZZ>
<FOO>
<BAR>testBar</BAR>
<LIB>testLib</LIB>
</FOO>
</DATA>
<DATA>
<FIZZ>testFizz2</FIZZ>
<FOO>
<BAR>testBar2</BAR>
<LIB>testLib2</LIB>
</FOO>
</DATA>
</DATASET>
</ROOT>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Foo Bar</td>
<td>Fizz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>testBar</td>
<td>testFizz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>testBar2</td>
<td>testFizz2</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
The problem with what you've got:
<xsl:variable name="elementName" select="@nodeName" />
...
<xsl:value-of select="/ROOT/DATASET/DATA[$pos]/*[name() = $elementName]" />
is that it assumes elementName
is only a single element's name. If it's an arbitrary XPath expression, the test will fail.
The second problem you'll run into (or probably already have) is that attribute value templates are not allowed in select clauses, so you can't do something simple like this:
<xsl:value-of select="/ROOT/DATASET/DATA[$pos]/{$elementName}" />
What you need is something that will dynamically create the XPath expression to the element you're looking for, and then dynamically evaluate that expression.
For a solution, I turned to EXSLT's evaluate()
function, in the dynamic
library. I had to use it twice: once to build up the entire XPath expression representing the query, and once to evaluate that query. The advantage of this approach is that you get access to evaluate
's full XPath parsing and execution capabilities.
<xsl:variable name="elementLocation" select="@nodeName" />
<xsl:variable name="query" select="concat('/ROOT/DATASET/DATA[$pos]/',
dyn:evaluate('$elementLocation'))"/>
...
<xsl:value-of select="dyn:evaluate($query)"/>
where the dyn
namespace is declared up top as http://exslt.org/dynamic
. Figuring out where to quote here is tricky and took me several tries to get right.
Using these instead of your elementName and value-of expressions, I get:
<html xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:dyn="http://exslt.org/dynamic">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body><table border="1">
<tr>
<td>Foo Bar</td>
<td>Fizz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>testBar</td>
<td>testFizz</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>testBar2</td>
<td>testFizz2</td>
</tr>
</table></body>
</html>
which is what I think you're looking for.
Unfortunately, I'm not versed in MSXML, so I can't tell you whether your specific XSLT processor supports this extension or something similar.