combine the nodes

pravind · February 21st, 2006, 01:39 AM

Hi,
I have problem to combine the tags.
Input XML is as follows:

<details>
<detail id="0" onInvoice="true" isCustomerRequest="false">
<text>*</text>
</detail>
<detail id="1" onInvoice="true" isCustomerRequest="false">
<text>Important extra information fort his trip<text>
</detail>
<detail id="2" onInvoice="true" isCustomerRequest="false">
<text>For the diving activities you need a special medical attest </text>
</detail>
<detail id="3" onInvoice="true" isCustomerRequest="false">
<text>which has to be not older than one year.</text>
</detail>
<detail id="4" onInvoice="true" isCustomerRequest="false">
<text>*</text>
</detail>
</details>

Expected Output:

<details>
<detail id="0" onInvoice="true" isCustomerRequest="false">
<text>*</text>
<text>Important extra information fort his trip<text>
<text>For the diving activities you need a special medical attest </text>
<text>which has to be not older than one year.</text>
<text>*</text>
</detail>
</details>

mhkay · February 21st, 2006, 04:56 AM

It would be useful when people say they "have a problem" if they say what the problem is. If I don't know what you've tried and what concepts you're struggling with, then it's hard to help you over your learning difficulties.

This is really a very simple problem:

<xsl:template match="details">
  <detail>
    <xsl:copy-of select="detail[1]/@*">
    <xsl:copy-of select="detail/text"/>
  </detail>
</xsl:template>

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

Happy81 · April 23rd, 2007, 12:25 PM

Hi,

Please help... I want to merge the XML based on some key..

input:
<n1>
<n2>1</n2>
<n3>4</n3>
<n4>5</n4>
</n1>
<n1>
<n2>1</n2>
<n3>5</n3>
<n4>5</n4>
</n1>
<n1>
<n2>1</n2>
<n3>6</n3>
<n4>5</n4>
</n1>
<n1>
<n2>2</n2>
<n3>4</n3>
<n4>5</n4>
</n1>

output:

<n1>
<n2>1</n2>
<n3s>
  <n3>4</n3>
  <n3>5</n3>
  <n3>6</n3>
</n3s>
<n4>5</n4>
</n1>
<n1>
<n2>2</n2>
<n3>4</n3>
<n4>5</n4>
</n1>

..

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mhkay
It would be useful when people say they "have a problem" if they say what the problem is. If I don't know what you've tried and what concepts you're struggling with, then it's hard to help you over your learning difficulties.

This is really a very simple problem:

<xsl:template match="details">
<detail>
<xsl:copy-of select="detail[1]/@*">
<xsl:copy-of select="detail/text"/>
</detail>
</xsl:template>

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

mhkay · April 23rd, 2007, 01:11 PM

Happy81: I'm not sure how your message relates to earlier messages on the same thread or to the message you are quoting.

The problem you've outlined is a standard grouping problem. In XSLT 2.0, use xsl:for-each-group. In XSLT 1.0, use Muenchian grouping as described for example at http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/grouping

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