having issue printing child values by comparing parents value

eruditionist · December 31st, 2008, 05:44 PM

Here is my XML
<root>
<value>
<item name="key">
<value>Test</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>Test</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value>Test</value>
</item>
<value>
<item name="key">
<value>Test1.1</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>Test 1.1</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value/>
</item>
</value>
<value>
<item name="key">
<value>Test1.2</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>Test 1.2</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value/>
</item>
</value>
</item>
<item name="key">
<value>Sample</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>Sample</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value>Sample</value>
</item>
</value>
</root>

=============================================
I am trying to print just this as the output

PARENT key=Test label=Test foldername=Test
CHILD Key=Test1.1 label=Test 1.1 foldername=
CHILD Key=Test1.2 label=Test 1.2 foldername=

I know that in order to get the value I need to use
<xsl:value-of select="//item/value"/>
What I dont know is how do I print out the output thats needed by providing just Test as my item name key.

zeronexxx · December 31st, 2008, 06:05 PM

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="//item/@name"/>

mhkay · January 1st, 2009, 06:57 AM

It's very hard to discern the structure of your input as there is no indentation. I tried pasting it into an XML editor to get it indented, and it seems that it isn't even well-formed, which makes it even harder to see the intended structure! Also it doesn't help that you have used "Test" as the value of many different fields, which makes it difficult to see which parts of your output are supposed to come from which parts of your input.

Escaping the nested markup within the <value> elements isn't going to make your life easier either.

eruditionist · January 5th, 2009, 03:37 PM

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<value>
<item name="key">
<value>News</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>News</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value>news</value>
</item>
<value>
<item name="key">
<value>Sportsnews</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>Sports News</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value/>
</item>
</value>
<value>
<item name="key">
<value>FinancialNews</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>Financial News</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value/>
</item>
</value>
<item name="key">
<value>Classifieds</value>
</item>
<item name="label">
<value>classifieds</value>
</item>
<item name="foldername">
<value>sell</value>
</item>
</value>
</root>

I need just the News and its children values to be printed out for example.
Parent key value = News
children key value = Sportsnews
children key value = FinancialNews

I hope this makes sense.

mrame · January 7th, 2009, 02:34 AM

Try the below code. This is hard-coded for two value elements as per the input. There can be better solution.

Code:

<xsl:template match="root">
<xsl:apply-templates select="value" mode="value"></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="value" mode="value">
<xsl:apply-templates select="item" mode="item"></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="item" mode="item">
<xsl:if test="value = 'News'">
Parent key value = <xsl:value-of select="value"></xsl:value-of>
Children key value = <xsl:value-of select="../value[1]/item[@name = 'key']/value"></xsl:value-of>
Children key value = <xsl:value-of select="../value[2]/item[@name = 'key']/value"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>