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          <xsl:for-each select="fcs:leadParagraph">
        <p><strong><xsl:value-of select="fcs:paragraph"/></strong></p>
        </xsl:for-each>

iterates over the leadParagraph's - but there is only one. For each one, it outputs a paragraph. The content of that paragraph is obtained from the path expression select="fcs:paragraph", which selects three paragraphs. In XSLT 1.0, this will give you the text of the first child paragraph. In XSLT 2.0, it will give you the text of all three child paragraphs, space-separated.

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

Hallo all,

Is it possible to write ein iteration in XSL like

        <table id="epoNewsItem" style="border-bottom:none">
        <xsl:variable name="i" select="0"/> <xsl:for-each select="fcs:folderHeadline">
                <xsl:variable name="content" select="fcs:contentParts/@contentType"/>

                <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring(fcs:publicationDate,0,5)"/>
                <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(fcs:publicationDate,6,2)"/>
                <xsl:variable name="day" select="substring(fcs:publicationDate,9,2)"/>
                <tr>
                     <xsl:choose>
                                        <xsl:when test="$content='WebPage'">
                                            <td class="text"><img src="http://dg1-2.internal.epo.org/_test/Huerol/Factiva/fwebicon.gif" alt="Factiva Web Content Icon" style='margin-top:3px'/><xsl:text></xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$day"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$month"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$year"/></td>
                                        </xsl:when>
                                        <xsl:otherwise>
                    <td class="text"><img src="http://dg1-2.internal.epo.org/_test/Huerol/Factiva/fac_pub.gif" alt="Factiva Publications Icon" style='margin-top:3px'/><xsl:text></xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$day"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$month"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$year"/></td>
                    </xsl:otherwise>
                                    </xsl:choose>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
                    <xsl:variable name="headline" select="fcs:headline/fcs:paragraph"/>
                    <xsl:variable name="cut" select="substring($headline,0,50)"/>
                    <td class="text"><h3><a href="javascript:sendContentRequest($i)"><xsl:valu e-of select="$cut"/><xsl:text>...</xsl:text></a></h3></td> </tr>
                 <tr>
                     <xsl:variable name="snippet" select="fcs:snippet"/>
                     <xsl:variable name="cPos" select="string-length(substring-before($snippet, '-- '))"/>
                    <xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="$cPos >= 0">
                            <xsl:variable name="cutSnippet" select="substring($snippet,$cPos+2,100+$cPos+3)"/>
                            <td class="text"><xsl:value-of select="$cutSnippet"/></td>
                        </xsl:when>
                        <xsl:otherwise>
                         <xsl:variable name="cutSnippet" select="substring($snippet,0,100)"/>
                         <td class="text"><xsl:value-of select="$cutSnippet"/></td>
                        </xsl:otherwise>
                    </xsl:choose>
                    
                 </tr>
                 <xsl:variable name="i" select="$i+1"/>
                </xsl:for-each>
        </table>

If not, how can I construct such an iteration in XSL? Can anyone help me?

Your attitude determines your altitude

No, XSLT is a functional language, so you can't increment variables. In general you need to use recursion. See Chapter 8 of my book for a detailed discussion of the implications of this on your coding style.

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

Sorry michael I don't have your book. Where can I find its PDF version? I cannot buy it now but later on Today but I need this recursion now. Can you please give me an example if it is possible?

Your attitude determines your altitude

You can't for the reason I stated before, xsl:for-each doesn't loop over the elements it processes them all simultaneously, in theory anyway.
If you are processing a sequence of nodes then you can use the position() function in XPath to find where they are in the list but there's no guarantee the last node won't be processed before the first node etc. --

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Hallo joe,

It is actually like this. These headlines are dynamic arrays, that its I have to iterate them like

for(int i=0; i<array.length; i++){
---
}

So how can the function position() work in this occasion? Can you please help me?


Your attitude determines your altitude

Sorry, I can answer direct coding questions here but I can't give a training course.

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

Michael I found some resources and I redefine the code chunk like that is it alright??
<xsl:template name="recursionHeadline" match="SOAP-ENV:Envelope/SOAP-ENV:Body/fcs:GetFolderHeadlinesResponse/fcs:folderHeadlinesResponse/fcs:folderHeadlinesResult/fcs:folder/fcs:folderHeadlinesResultSet">
<xsl:param name="i"/>
    <head>
            <title>Factiva Test</title>
            <link href='http://intranet1-t.internal.epo.org/portal/themes/html/epoIntranetCD/cssTheme.css' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
            <link href='http://intranet1-t.internal.epo.org/portal/themes/html/epoIntranetCD/cssPageBody.css' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
    </head>
    <body>
        <img src="http://dg1-2.internal.epo.org/_test/Huerol/Factiva/fac1.bmp" align="right" />
        <br clear="all"/>
        <table id="epoNewsItem" style="border-bottom:none">

                <xsl:for-each select="fcs:folderHeadline">
                <xsl:variable name="content" select="fcs:contentParts/@contentType"/>

                <xsl:variable name="year" select="substring(fcs:publicationDate,0,5)"/>
                <xsl:variable name="month" select="substring(fcs:publicationDate,6,2)"/>
                <xsl:variable name="day" select="substring(fcs:publicationDate,9,2)"/>
                <tr>
                     <xsl:choose>
                                        <xsl:when test="$content='WebPage'">
                                            <td class="text"><img src="http://dg1-2.internal.epo.org/_test/Huerol/Factiva/fwebicon.gif" alt="Factiva Web Content Icon" style='margin-top:3px'/><xsl:text></xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$day"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$month"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$year"/></td>
                                        </xsl:when>
                                        <xsl:otherwise>
                    <td class="text"><img src="http://dg1-2.internal.epo.org/_test/Huerol/Factiva/fac_pub.gif" alt="Factiva Publications Icon" style='margin-top:3px'/><xsl:text></xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$day"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$month"/>.<xsl:value-of select="$year"/></td>
                    </xsl:otherwise>
                                    </xsl:choose>
                  </tr>
                  <tr>
                     <xsl:variable name="size" select="count(fcs:headline/fcs:paragraph)"/>
                      <xsl:if test="$i &lt; $size">
                    <xsl:variable name="headline" select="fcs:headline/fcs:paragraph"/>
                    <xsl:variable name="cut" select="substring($headline,0,50)"/>
                    <td class="text"><h3><a href="javascript:sendContentRequest($i)"><xsl:valu e-of select="$cut"/><xsl:text>...</xsl:text></a></h3></td>
                    <xsl:call-template name="recursion">
                        <xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i+1"/>
                    </xsl:call-template>
                    </xsl:if>                     </tr>
                  <tr>
                     <xsl:variable name="snippet" select="fcs:snippet"/>
                     <xsl:variable name="cPos" select="string-length(substring-before($snippet, '-- '))"/>
                    <xsl:choose>
                        <xsl:when test="$cPos > 0">
                            <xsl:variable name="cutSnippet" select="substring($snippet,$cPos+3,100+$cPos+3)"/>
                            <td class="text"><xsl:value-of select="$cutSnippet"/></td>
                        </xsl:when>
                        <xsl:otherwise>
                         <xsl:variable name="cutSnippet" select="substring($snippet,0,100)"/>
                          <td class="text"><xsl:value-of select="$cutSnippet"/></td>
                        </xsl:otherwise>
                    </xsl:choose>

                 </tr>
                </xsl:for-each>
        </table>
        </body>

Your attitude determines your altitude

Ok I redesigned the code but I am having a problem

I have written
<tr>
                     <td class="text"><h3><xsl:apply-templates select="fcs:headline/fcs:paragraph"></xsl:apply-templates>
                     </h3></td>
</tr>

    <xsl:template name="recursion" match="fcs:headline/fcs:paragraph">
        <xsl:param name="i" select="0"/>
                 <xsl:if test="$i &gt;0">
                     <xsl:variable name="headline" select="fcs:headline/fcs:paragraph"/>
                    <xsl:variable name="cut" select="substring(fcs:headline/$headline,0,50)"/>

                    <a href="{$i}"><xsl:value-of select="$cut"/><xsl:text>...</xsl:text></a>
                    <xsl:call-template name="recursion">
                        <xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i+1"/>

                    </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>

Ok I think it does the recursion but It doesn't make to show this <a href="{$i}"><xsl:value-of select="$cut"/><xsl:text>...</xsl:text></a> as a link. What should I do to have its a href functionality again?




Your attitude determines your altitude

As written, your code will recurse for ever, because the terminating condition ($i <= 0) is never reached.

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