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At 11:17 AM 5/17/2002, you wrote:
:) No, I realize that XSL is not magical (though it is pretty close). I was talking particular about positive, integral index values.
Exposition:
My query originates from a collection of Star Wars toys that I have at home. Each toy is manufactured with a series index value, and I am missing some of the individual products. Since I'm a geek and have keyed my collection into XML, I would like for XSL to generate a listing of all the missing indices. The upper limit is variable (for different collections), but is almost guaranteed to be greater than 10. In fact, the indexed node is figure/details/title/series/number.
I thought a called-template with parameters would be best, since the indexed node might change for different kinds of collectibles (e.g. a comic book might be listed as publisher/title/volume/issue) and the starting value may not even 1.
It would be supremely cool if the type of indexed data could be changed dynamically to some pre-determinable "growing" type (e.g. a,b,c,d,e,...; 1,2,3,4,5,... ; i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,...).
Probably, the outputted node tree should only be something like
instead of the complex tree I imagined in the first post. Hmmmm...
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Re: [xsl] Generating a list of items NOT present in source XML
Subject: Re: [xsl] Generating a list of items NOT present in source XML From: Greg Faron <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 11:54:03 -0600 |
At 11:17 AM 5/17/2002, you wrote:
It depends a bit what your missing nodes are, if it's numbers then the stylesheet has a chance, if the thing is a list of family birthdays and I've forgotten one (not uncommon:-) then the stylesheet probably won't have much of a chance of filling in the gaps. (Hmm now there's a challenge for Jeni, can she provide a stylesheet that will fill in my Mum's birthday...)
:) No, I realize that XSL is not magical (though it is pretty close). I was talking particular about positive, integral index values.
Anyway for your example,
<xsl:for-each select="//*[position()</root/obj]"> <xsl:if test="not(position() = /root/obj)"> <obj><childnode><xsl:value-of select="position()"/></childnode></obj> </xsl:for-each>
probably works, but not if node 10 was missing.
Exposition:
My query originates from a collection of Star Wars toys that I have at home. Each toy is manufactured with a series index value, and I am missing some of the individual products. Since I'm a geek and have keyed my collection into XML, I would like for XSL to generate a listing of all the missing indices. The upper limit is variable (for different collections), but is almost guaranteed to be greater than 10. In fact, the indexed node is figure/details/title/series/number.
I thought a called-template with parameters would be best, since the indexed node might change for different kinds of collectibles (e.g. a comic book might be listed as publisher/title/volume/issue) and the starting value may not even 1.
It would be supremely cool if the type of indexed data could be changed dynamically to some pre-determinable "growing" type (e.g. a,b,c,d,e,...; 1,2,3,4,5,... ; i,ii,iii,iv,v,vi,...).
Probably, the outputted node tree should only be something like
<missing> <datum>2</datum> <datum>6</datum> <datum>8</datum> </missing>
instead of the complex tree I imagined in the first post. Hmmmm...
Greg Faron Integre Technical Publishing Co.
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