Looping through XML

li72 · February 20th, 2008, 12:04 PM

Hi. guys
The following xslt stylesheet supposed to loop through the xml doc visiting each node, read and write its name and their attributes (userid, password). Actually it visits the only the first node since it performs this statement <xsl:for-each select="data/node1">
which prevents it from visiting the others. My question is how to amend this code in order to allow it to visit the whole xml doc with any number of nodes with same attributes?
Any help is really much appreciated
Cheers

Here is the xml document

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="xx.xslt"?>
<data>
    <node1 userid="x" password="y" />
         <node2 userid="xx" password="yy" />
    <node3 userid="xxx" password="yyy" />
</data>

Here is the xslt stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-
transitional.dtd" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<body>
<xsl:for-each select="data/node1">
   <h2> <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/> </h2>
             <h1> <xsl:value-of select="@userid" /> </h1>
             <h1> <xsl:value-of select="@password" /> </h1>
  </xsl:for-each>
   </body>
  </html>
  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>

mhkay · February 20th, 2008, 12:11 PM

You could just do xsl:for-each select="data/*".

But a better way, assuming that the element names node1, node2, and node3 imply some difference of structure or meaning (else why would they have different names?) is to use xsl:apply-templates, and then define a template rule to process each kind of child element.

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

Martin Honnen · February 20th, 2008, 12:13 PM

Use

Code:

<xsl:for-each select="data/*">

if you want to process all child elements of the data element.