Suppressing Results in the Final Document

JTurner · July 19th, 2005, 11:24 AM

I've looked everywhere and tried searching using different keywords, but to no avail... Please excuse me if this question has been asked and answered already. I'm new to XSLT and my terminology may not be 100% correct, so please bear with me.

Here's the problem: I want to use the XSLT style sheet to remove results from the final document based on whether or not a specific element is present.

So for example, the XML code may look something like this:

<ITEM>
  <NUMBER>2</NUMBER>
  <DATE>7-12-2005</DATE>
  <TITLE>Random Title</TITLE>
</ITEM>
<ITEM>
  <NUMBER>3</NUMBER>
  <DATE>7-8-2005</DATE>
  <TITLE>Random Title 2</TITLE>
  <DELETE>7/19/2005</DELETE>
</ITEM>

When the original XML document is processed by the XSLT style sheet, I want to remove results from the final (HTML) document if the DELETE element is present.

Can anyone provide some help there?

Thanks,
Jennifer

joefawcett · July 20th, 2005, 02:21 AM

You can't remove results as such, you can avoid putting them there. You'll have to show a bit more of your xslt.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

JTurner · July 20th, 2005, 09:23 AM

The stylesheet is as follows:

<xsl:template match="ITEM">
    <h4><a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="LINK"/></xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:value-of select="TITLE"/></a><br/>
    <xsl:value-of select="DATE"/></h4>
</xsl:template>

joefawcett · July 21st, 2005, 08:55 AM

Well if you mean you don't want to output the ITEM element if it has a DELETE child then you need to change the select from:

Code:

<xsl:apply-templates select="ITEM[not(DELETE)]"/>

or change the matching template, having one for each type:

Code:

<xsl:template match="ITEM[DELETE]"/>

and

Code:

<xsl:template match="ITEM[not(DELETE)]">
    <h4><a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="LINK"/></xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:value-of select="TITLE"/></a><br/>
    <xsl:value-of select="DATE"/></h4>
</xsl:template>

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

JTurner · July 21st, 2005, 02:55 PM

Thank you very much for your help!

I used the following option and it worked perfectly!

Code:

<xsl:apply-templates select="ITEM[not(DELETE)]"/>

Jennifer