Hi,

I've an xml where I need to suppress few text within few elements. This is basically for print purpose wherein this text info are not required to be printed.

<publisherName>Divine Press</publisherName>
<publisherLoc>XXX</publisherLoc>

The first thing, which is strikes in my mind is to convert these text/data into self defined attribute value, so that they do not appear on page (would prefer @supp-info for all cases).
Like:
<publisherName supp-info="Divine Press"></publisherName>
<publisherLoc supp-info="XXX"></publisherLoc>

The reason I want to retain the data into attribute is because I need get these values back to their original places as they were in XML tree before importing the transformed XML.

Can anyone suggest/guide me whether its good way doing or there is any other better way of acheiving the same.

Any comments i this regard will be immense help.

Pankaj



Pankaj

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Pankaj

Simply create a template to match the elements you want to and then store the value in an attribute.

e.g.

<xsl:template match="publisherLoc">
  <publisherLoc>
    <xsl:attribute name="supp-loc" select="string(.)"/>
  </publisherLoc>
</xsl:template>

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Well converting string to attributes values was not my concern here like you suggested and know how to do that. I was looking for the suggestions to do it another better way doing that.

Simply I am trying to avoid making huge list of elements, where I am going to use supp-info. This is for when I will be transforming xml back to its original form.

Thanks

Pankaj

Well then just replace the specific element with an <xsl:element> tag.

<xsl:template match="publisherLoc | publisherName | etc...">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
    <xsl:attribute name="supp-info" select="string(.)"/>
  </xsl:elememt>
</xsl:template>

And to convert back

<xsl:template match="*[@supp-info]">
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
    <xsl:value-of select="@supp-info"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Perfect!! That's the correct syntax I was looking for.

Thanks Sam for help.

Pankaj

This one is done using

<xsl:template match="publisherName | publisherLoc">
    <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
        <xsl:attribute name="supp-info">
        <xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

Cannot understand why
<xsl:attribute name="supp-info" select="string(.)"/>
is giving error.

Any Ideas!!!


Pankaj

Pankaj

That depends a lot on what the error is?

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

The select attribute on xsl:attribute is a new feature introduced in XSLT 2.0. Chances are you're using a 1.0 processor.

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

Exactly!!! I am working on 1.0. By the way can you suggest me the best processor (which includes all new functionalities) for XSLT 2.0.
I can see that lots of new good features has been added to 2.0, which are very useful. Are there any other requirements I need to fulfill before going ahead with 2.0.

Thanks for suggestions in advance.

Pankaj

Pankaj

To the best of my knowledge there are only 3 XSLT 2.0 processors.

Gestalt is written in Eiffel and is available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gestalt

Saxon is available in Java or .Net flavours: http://www.sf.net/saxon

AltovaXml is also available in Java or COM/.Net flavours: http://www.altova.com/altovaxml

Michael is terribly biased, as he wrote Saxon, but I'd have to say its my personal favourite too.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/