Hi All

I am new to XML and XSLT.
I have a requirement to transform XML to XML where the resultant document should contain the parent nodes whose any of the child node has an attribute which is in the argument list.

Source doc is
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rootnode>
<parent>
    <parentnode label="parent1">
        <childnode key="key1">
        </childnode>
        <childnode key="key2">
        </childnode>
        <childnode key="key3">
        </childnode>
    </parentnode>
    <parentnode label="parent2">
        <childnode key="key4">
        </childnode>
        <childnode key="key5">
        </childnode>
        <childnode key="key6">
        </childnode>
    </parentnode>
</parent>
</rootnode>

The argument is |key1|key2|key3|

Resultant doc shd be
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rootnode>
  <parent>
    <parentnode label="parent1">
        </parentnode>
  </parent>
</rootnode>

The transform I use which is not correct
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

    <xsl:output method = "xml" indent="yes" />
    <xsl:variable name="permissions"></xsl:variable>

    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="parentnode">
        <xsl:for-each select="child::childnode">
            <xsl:if test="contains($permissions,concat('|',./@key,'|'))">
                <xsl:copy>
                    <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
                </xsl:copy>
            </xsl:if>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The aspx code I use is
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XPathDocument menuDoc = new XPathDocument(Server.MapPath("key.xml"));
XslTransform xslt = new XslTransform();
xslt.Load(Server.MapPath("key.xslt"));
XsltArgumentList xslArg = new XsltArgumentList();
string keys= "|key1|key2|key3|";
xslArg.AddParam("permissions", "", keys);
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
xslt.Transform(menuDoc, xslArg, writer, null);
xmlstr = writer.ToString();
Response.Write(xmlstr.ToString());

I tried different transforms which either made the application to hang or gave me the same parentnode many times for each of the child .
The parent node should be selected only once even though its all the children contain keys as that of argument list.

Please help

PParades

1st thing, in your code:
You're going to be copying the child nodes, not the the parent node. I suggest using a conditional select using braces [] to see if you've found a node.

Hi jkmyoung

Thanks very much for your reply . It works !

I changed
<xsl:template match="parentnode">
        <xsl:if test="childnode[contains($permissions,concat('|',./@key,'|'))]">
            <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" />
            </xsl:copy>
        </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

to
<xsl:template match="parentnode">
    <xsl:if test="childnode[contains($permissions,concat('|',./@key,'|'))]">
          <xsl:copy>
                <xsl:apply-templates select="parent[node()]|@*" />
          </xsl:copy>
     </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

to get the desired output.

Thanks again
PParades