Working with array-type elements

tclotworthy · October 11th, 2007, 08:49 AM

I have an array (if you can call it that in XSLT) of elements like:

ownedMember(100)

and I want to do two things:

1) How do I traverse them individually (i.e. in a loop)?

2) How do I get to individual attributes within any given array element?

Thanks

joefawcett · October 11th, 2007, 09:07 AM

I don't quite understand the ownedMember(100) syntax but if you have XML such as:

Code:

<data>
  <ownedMember attribute="value"/>
  <ownedMember attribute="value"/>

</data>

Then you have an xsl:template with a match attribute of ownedMember and then you call:

Code:

<xsl:apply-templates select="/*/ownedMember"/>

Then you can access the attributes as so:

Code:

<xsl:template match="ownedMember">
  <xsl:value-of select="@attribute"/>
</xsl:template>

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

mhkay · October 11th, 2007, 09:27 AM

You don't have an array in XSLT (and you can't call it that, because it will only confuse people). In XSLT 2.0 you can have a sequence of elements, in XSLT 1.0 you can have a node-set. In either case you can index into the collection using predicates, for example $x[100], and you can iterate over the collection using <xsl:for-each>

I'm a little surprised at such a basic question, perhaps you meant something else?

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