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September 22nd, 2006, 07:39 AM
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Inserting a heading only in only the first element
I would like to insert a heading for the first child element in another element, and not for any others that may follow. For example, if I have XML like this:
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<article>
<section>
<information>
some stuff
</information>
<question>
one
</question>
<question>
two
</question>
</section>
<section>
<information>
some stuff
</information>
<question>
three
</question>
<question>
four
</question>
</section>
</article>
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And my XSLT looks something like this:
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<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="information">
<b><xsl:apply-templates/></b>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="question">
<h3>Test My Knowledge</h3>
<h4>Question <xsl:number level="any"/></h4>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Then I get the following result:
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some stuff
Test My Knowledge
Question 1
Test My Knowledge
Question 2
some stuff
Test My Knowledge
Question 3
Test My Knowledge
Question 4
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But I would like the "Test my Knowledge" to apeear only in front of the first "question" element in every "section" element, something like this:
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some stuff
Test My Knowledge
Question 1
Question 2
some stuff
Test My Knowledge
Question 3
Question 4
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Is it possible to do this without changing the structure of the XML?
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September 22nd, 2006, 08:04 AM
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Since you want the heading output once for each information element, just change your code to produce it as part of the template that processes information elements.
Michael Kay
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September 28th, 2006, 09:06 AM
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Hi Stekker,
I used this syntax to pick out the first entry ...
<xsl:apply-templates select="/dataroot/xmlout[1]/REPTITLE" />
REPTITLE is a field containing the title of the report and [1] tells the processor to take just the first occurance (I believe).
Hope this helps you :-)
Cheers,
Alan.
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