Style Sheet exit

veera_clr · November 9th, 2009, 02:23 AM

Hi all,

I have a one problem in xsl.

I dont want to do further execution, when a condition reaches. I need to come out from the style sheet. Could you any one help me out on this.

Thanks,
Veera

mhkay · November 9th, 2009, 05:34 AM

If you want to abort the transformation you can do xsl:message terminate="yes". But if you want to finish cleanly, with a usable transformation result, then you are thinking about it the wrong way. The clue is your use of "when". Don't think of XSLT transformation as a sequence of operations happening in a particular order, it's not that kind of language. Think declaratively: you need to express the output as a function of the input.

To help you put that into practice, I would need to know more about what your transformation is doing.

veera_clr · November 9th, 2009, 06:02 AM

Hi Mhkay,

Thanks for useful reply,

My xslt transforms xml to fixed messages. I got a requirement if condition satsifies then generate the flat file till part of the XSLT means it doesnt continue to generate flat message for further code, it has to generate till this condition checking. otherwise it has to generate, whatever we have coded.

Thanks,
Veera

mhkay · November 9th, 2009, 07:04 AM

So you want to transform the part of the input up to the first item that matches some condition C.

So find the first item that matches C:

Code:

<xsl:variable name="finalItem" select="/*/item[C][1]"/>

and then transform everything that comes before this item:

Code:

<xsl:apply-templates select="$finalItem/preceding-sibling::*"/>

Of course that's just a sketch, you'll have to adapt it to your actual input.