Another Document ( ) Function Question

bonekrusher · August 4th, 2006, 10:21 AM

Hi Again,

How do I reference an element with an ID attribute? Right now the following code pulls ALL the <Para> elements. Say i want to pull the <Para> with an ID attribute of id="shareme"?

Code:

    <xsl:template match="JBU:share">
        <span style="background-color:red; ">
            <xsl:value-of select="document('source2.xml')/JBU:Book/JBU:Chapter/JBU:Sec1/JBU:sec2/JBU:Para"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates/>
        </span>
    </xsl:template

mhkay · August 4th, 2006, 10:26 AM

Simplest is

select="document('source2.xml')/JBU:Book/JBU:Chapter/JBU:Sec1/JBU:sec2/JBU:Para[@id='shareme']"

If you're confident it really is an ID attribute, that is, it's marked as an ID attribute in the DTD and notified by the parser as such, then you can do

In 2.0:

<xsl:value-of select="document('source2.xml')/id('shareme')"/>

In 1.0:
<xsl:for-each select="document('source2.xml')">
<xsl:value-of select="id('shareme')"/>
</xsl:for-each>

The for-each here doesn't do any iteration, it just changes the context node.

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

bonekrusher · August 4th, 2006, 10:45 AM

Michael,

Thanks again.... I am hooked. This is so powerful.

Bones