Creating a temporary document

bonekrusher · February 26th, 2010, 09:31 AM

Hi,

Is the below code correct? I am trying to create a temporary document by pulling about 400 xml files into a variable.

The below code doesnt return anything. I am using Saxon with -t enabled. Saxon reports that the files are being processed.

Code:

<xsl:variable name="filter">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat($working-folder, '?select=*.xml;recurse=no;on-error=ignore')"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="dm.manifest">
        <manifest>
            <xsl:for-each select="collection($filter)">
                <xsl:for-each select="//dmc">
                    <xsl:copy>
                        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
                    </xsl:copy>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </manifest>
    </xsl:variable>

sample file pulled in by collection:

Code:

<dmodule id="someid">
    <idstatus>
        <dmaddres>
            <dmc>
                <avee>
                    <modelic>Model Number</modelic>
                    <sdc>0</sdc>
                    <chapnum>0</chapnum>
                    <section>0</section>
                    <subsect>0</subsect>
                    <subject>00</subject>
                    <discode>00</discode>
                    <discodev>00</discodev>
                    <incode>000</incode>
                    <incodev>0</incodev>
                    <itemloc>0</itemloc>
                </avee>
            </dmc>
        </dmaddres>
    </idstatus>
</dmodule>

The xsl call:

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="$dm.manifest/manifest"/>

Thanks,

Martin Honnen · February 26th, 2010, 09:42 AM

The xsl:value-of looks odd at least with the nodes you are trying to process. On the other hand your elements seem to have some text contents so that content should show up, all concatenated together though.
I am not sure where the problem is, I would start with doing

Code:

<xsl:copy-of select="$dm.manifest"/>

to see whether that variable contains what you expect.

Note that the <xsl:variable><xsl:value-of select="..."/></xsl:variable> can and should be shortened to <xsl:variable name="dm.manifest" select="..."/>. But that should not cause the problem you describe.

mhkay · February 26th, 2010, 10:02 AM

Like Martin, I can't see anything wrong beyond the oddities mentioned. But you haven't shown us the whole picture, e.g. what template rules are being invoked by the xsl:apply-templates, or whether there are any namespace declarations lurking in the code that you snipped.

bonekrusher · February 26th, 2010, 10:08 AM

Thanks Martin and Michael.

The issue was in how I was calling the variable. The fix is:

Code:

<xsl:variable name="dm.manifest.doc">
        <xsl:copy-of select="$dm.manifest"/>
</xsl:variable>

Now I can access all the nodes, for example:

Code:

<xsl:value-of select="$dm.manifest.doc//modelic"/>

Thanks for the help.