Hi,
I need to read an XML, and based on the attribute value, I need to query a java HashMap and replace the corresponding attribute value. For example, if I have a HashMap of [country name, abbrev name], in the following XML:


<items>
    <location num="1" country="United States">
    <location num="2" country="Canada">
    <location num="3" country="United Kingdom">
    <location num="4" country="India">
</items>


The resulting XML should look like:

<items>
    <location num="1" country="US">
    <location num="2" country="CA">
    <location num="3" country="UK">
    <location num="4" country="IN">
</items>


Using Java (JAXP) how can I replace the said values?

Ideally, my XSL would look somewhat like:


<xsl:template match="location[@country]">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:attribute name="country">
      <xsl:value-of select="myHashMap.get('countryname').toString()"/>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>


Is there an easier way to do such a replacement?
thanks for your help.

Many JAXP implementations allow you to call Java methods on Java objects as extension functions, but the details depend on the product you are using (it's not defined in the JAXP interface itself). So consult your product documentation. In Saxon you could pass the HashMap directly as a parameter to the transformer and then access it as:

<xsl:param name="map"/>

...

<xsl:value-of select="Map:get($map, 'countryname')"
  xmlns:Map="java:java.util.HashMap"/>

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

Mike,
That's great! Sorry for a newbie question, but is it possible for me to do the same Java-XSL transformation using SAXON? I don't have to use JAXP, just anything that'll get my job done.
I would also appreciate some links to Java/XSLT examples using SAXON and link to download SAXON.jar.
thanks a bunch.

You can download the open-source version of Saxon from

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=29872

or Saxon-SA from http://www.saxonica.com/

The latest version is 8.9.0.4

You should be able to use your JAXP application essentially unchanged, just set the system property javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory to "net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl".

There's info on using Saxon from JAXP at http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...embedding.html

and information on using extension functions with Saxon at http://www.saxonica.com/documentatio...functions.html

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