select wildcard element names

groovepapa · August 31st, 2004, 10:59 AM

I want to apply a single template to a number of elements with similar names, but somewhat different.

the elements all begin with ELE

so, can I do:
<xsl:apply-templates select="ELE*"/>

<xsl:template match="ELE*">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

? what is a way to do this?

thanks,
-L

joefawcett · August 31st, 2004, 11:13 AM

You can do

Code:

<xsl:apply-templates select="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]"/>

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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)

groovepapa · August 31st, 2004, 11:21 AM

cool, thanks. one other question...now I have...

Code:

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(), 'SEG'))]">
    <xsl:value-of select="name"/>*<xsl:apply-templates select="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>*
</xsl:template>

I want the final document to be a flat-file (EDI) looking like this:
BPR*<ELE data here>*<next ELE data here>*<carraige return>
N1*<ELE data here>*<next ELE data here>*<carraige return>

my question is how do I put in carriage returns in the result document...I know there's some XSLT function or something, but if you know what it is off the top of your head it could save me some digging...thanks,

-L

joefawcett · September 1st, 2004, 02:14 AM

Carriage returns are characters 13, new line is 10 I usually use hex notation:

Code:

#0a;#0d;

Not sure how these will fare in abrowser but they are:
ampersand hash zero a semi-colon
ampersand hash zero d semi-colon

I think your stylesheet should be more like:

Code:

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(), 'SEG'))]">
    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:value-of select=".>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

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Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)

groovepapa · September 1st, 2004, 08:12 AM

Code:

<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(), 'SEG')]">
<xsl:value-of select="NAME"/><xsl:text>*</xsl:text><xsl:apply-templates select="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[starts-with(name(), 'ELE')]">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><xsl:text>*</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

is the template code I'm using now, and a sample XML:

Code:

<SEG>
<NAME>BPR</NAME>
<ELE1>100285</ELE1>
<ELE2>IV</ELE2>
<ELE3>123.45</ELE3>
<ELE4/>
<ELE5/>
</SEG>
<SEG>
<NAME>RMR</NAME>
<ELE1>IV</ELE1>
</SEG>

Seems to be working fine now. Thanks for all the help!