Hello, I'm an XSLT novice. I have an XML data structure which looks like:

<Products>
<Product>
    <Name>LUMINAIRES FOR EMERGENCY LIGHTING</Name>
    <PDF>006.PDF</PDF>
    <Number>999</Number>
</Product>
</Products>

and I'm doing an XSLT transformation. I'd like to display only the <Product> matched by either <Name> or <Number> values. So, I wrote a filter XSLT with this code:

<xsl:template match="Product">
        <xsl:if test="@Number = /Products/Product/Number">
            <xsl:element name="Product">
                <xsl:value-of select="@Product"/>
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:if>
        <xsl:if test="@Value= /Products/Product/Value">
            <xsl:element name="Product">
                <xsl:value-of select="@Product"/>
            </xsl:element>
        </xsl:if>

At this point I'm stuck. I want to display the <Product> search result, but am not sure
about the test clauses or about selecting the parent <Product> element.
Can you help?

Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do. In your template, the current node is a Product element. You product element does not have an attribute called Number or Value, so the expressions @Number and @Value will select nothing. And I'm not sure whether you really intended to compare these values with all the product numbers in the whole document, which is what "= /Products/Product/Number" means.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks for your message. Let me clarify this, because I am now less confused about it than when I first posted. There are several <Product> elements inside of the root <Products> element. I want to loop over each <Product> element and compare the values of its <Name> and <Number> children nodes with passed-in values. If either of the two values match, to print out the entire <Product> node. The <Name> value should match on a substring, like "Luminaires" should match <Name>LUMINAIRES FOR EMERGENCY LIGHTING</Name>.

So, right now I've adjusted my code as follows, problem is that I get all the <Product> elements instead of just the one with Number = 3000160.

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="/Products/Product">
       <xsl:if test="Number = '3000160'">
          <xsl:value-of select="Number" />
       </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>


Sorry about the confusion earlier, I appreciate your help.

I got this working finally:

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

    <xsl:template match="reporter" />

    <xsl:template match="Product">
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="Number = /Products/reporter/search">
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="contains(Name, /Products/reporter/search)">
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
            </xsl:when>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:template>