Concat 2 element's values and revise them

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s0n1k
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Concat 2 element's values and revise them

Post by s0n1k »

Hi community, new here but it seems I will stay for long!
Can someone help me if I can do "Concat 2 element's values and revise them" with XPATH refactoring?

before:

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<category id="1214554589" name="Cell phone screwdrivers"/>
      <category_idosell id="2898" path="Hardware &gt; Tools"/>
after:

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<category name="Hardware///Tools///Cell phone screwdrivers" />
xephon
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Location: Greven/Germany

Re: Concat 2 element's values and revise them

Post by xephon »

Hi s0n1k,

you can use this snippet:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:element name="category">
            <xsl:attribute name="name">
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(//category_idosell[1]/@path, ' &gt; ')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="'///'"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(//category_idosell[1]/@path, ' &gt; ')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="'///'"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="//category[1]/@name"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
    
</xsl:stylesheet>
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s0n1k
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Re: Concat 2 element's values and revise them

Post by s0n1k »

at your code I get an error:

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A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument of fn:substring-before() ("Hardware > Tools", "Hardware > Tools")
s0n1k
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Re: Concat 2 element's values and revise them

Post by s0n1k »

ok, got it. I have tested at only one <product> .... </product> and it worked. Just it deleted everything and got the category result only.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><category name="Hardware///Tools///Cell phone screwdrivers"/>
Can you show me the way on how to apply this snippet at an XML file that contains 1000 <product> .. </products> and I want to get the same products just the only change to be the category element with the newly created value for each product?

thank you in advance for your time!
s0n1k
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Re: Concat 2 element's values and revise them

Post by s0n1k »

it seems I am close to a solution. I found a code but it only outputs the 1st node.
How can I make it loop through all nodes and apply the snippet?
My code now

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
  
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="category/@name">
   
        <xsl:element name="category">
            <xsl:attribute name="name">
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(//category_idosell[1]/@path, ' &gt; ')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="'///'"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(//category_idosell[1]/@path, ' &gt; ')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="'///'"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="//category[1]/@name"/>
            </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:element>
    </xsl:template>
    
</xsl:stylesheet>
xephon
Posts: 140
Joined: Mon Nov 24, 2014 1:49 pm
Location: Greven/Germany

Re: Concat 2 element's values and revise them

Post by xephon »

You match on category/@name. Maybe this is not what you want to do. Probably you need an <xsl:apply-templates/> somewhere. Difficult to say without seeing your full code.
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