XSLT Processing shows just all the nodes (striped)

tsmets · July 9th, 2010, 10:06 AM

Dear,

I have an export from the Microsoft Control Center. (Identity Management from SAP runs there). The file is a massive 10 Mb & I expect it to contains all the information about the tasks dependencies.

The file looks like this :

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<IDM Exported_on="2010-07-08 12:12:43.517" ImXport_Version="v.7.10.0-710_COR-BUILD-23.10.2008_17:03:45" MC_Version="7.10.3.1-SQL-2009-11-13 " ObjectType="EXPORT_IDENTITY_STORE" Schema_Version="543">
 <PRESENTATIONTYPES>
      <TYPE>
         <PRESENTATIONDESCRIPTION>Field with single line</PRESENTATIONDESCRIPTION>
         <PRESENTATIONNAME>SingleLine</PRESENTATIONNAME>
         <PRESENTATIONID>1</PRESENTATIONID>
      </TYPE>
      <TYPE> ....

Around the middle of the file, you have :

Code:

<TASKS>
<TASK> ... </TASK>
<TASK> ... </TASK>
</TASKS>

each TASK-node is app. 100 subelements from whihc I can retrieve the parents & the childs TASK's.

I made a small XSL to see if I could retrieve some of the informations :

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  
  <!--
  <xsl:output method="text" indent="no" encoding="utf-8"/>
  -->
  <xsl:template match="/IMD/IDENTITY_STORE_TOP/TASKS">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
    digraph project {
      node [shape=box,fontname="Arial",fontsize="10"];
      edge [fontname="Arial",fontsize="8"];
      rankdir=LR;
       <xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
    }
    </xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="TASK">
    <xsl:text>TEST</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The aim is to generate a DOT-file and visualize the tasks dependencies with GraphViz.

However the result is not as I expect : as many test as there are TASKs... but all the node content striped down like what follows :

Quote:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Field with single line
SingleLine
1

Field with multiple line
MultiLine
2
...

Why the F#@* ... do I see these node content ?
I try to filter as much as I can by requesting:
match="/IMD/IDENTITY_STORE_TOP/TASKS"

So why do I see informations from the nodes under /IDM ?

Last but not least I use for my XSLT processing ANT XSLT task from v1.8 running on SnowLeopard with the JDK 1.6.0

Quote:

Thomas-SMETSs-MacBook-Pro:test-mcc tsmets$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_20"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02-279-10M3065)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01-279, mixed mode)

Help would be greatly appreciated !

\T,

Martin Honnen · July 9th, 2010, 10:14 AM

Setting up a template with a certain match pattern does not specify or restrict the processing of certain nodes, only xsl:apply-templates does that so add e.g.

Code:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="/IMD/IDENTITY_STORE_TOP/TASKS"/>
</xsl:template>

then only that "TASKS" element (or those "TASKS" elements if there are several) are processoed. Otherwise the default templates kick in with the results you currently see.

mhkay · July 9th, 2010, 10:38 AM

Not directly relevant, but rather than generating .dot files directly, you might find it easier to generate DOTML, described here

http://www.martin-loetzsch.de/DOTML/

which can then be translated to dot. This is the process I use to generate the diagrams in the XSLT 2.1 specification.

tsmets · July 10th, 2010, 05:42 AM

Actually, I am supposed to document the work done by colleagues...
You know :
Customers wanted things quickly / cheap and changed their minds on things THAT many times ...
So I suggested I would make the doco's but it is pointless to try to do it manually but for the big lines.
An option is to try to extract an XPDL from the export. It would then be possible to import in the BPM-tool.

Tx for both advises.
I will see how it works on monday (week-ends are week-ends

).

Further down the line (week).

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  
<!--
  <xsl:output method="text" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
-->

  <xsl:template match="/">   
    <xsl:apply-templates select="/IMD/IDENTITY_STORE_TOP/TASKS" >
      <xsl:text>Apply all templates</xsl:text>
      
      <result>
        <xsl:copy-of select="//TASK" />
      </result>
     
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="*">
      <xsl:text>TEST : STAR</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="//TASK">
      <result>TEST</result>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Copies the 700 TASKs in my output file but never prints a single "TEST" string ... I am still struggling with what could be wrong ???

\T,