Update value in a different node?

ITemplate · January 28th, 2011, 08:02 AM

Hi,

Looking at this xml:

Code:

<root>
  <nodeA />
  <nodeB />
</root>

Is it then possible to set the value of nodeB when inside nodeA? For example:

Code:

<xsl:template match="nodeA">
  <!-- Here do something like nodeB.Text = "hi" -->
</<xsl:template>

So that the output of matching nodeA could be (the thing to notice is the content of nodeB):

Code:

<root>
  <nodeA />
  <nodeB>hi</nodeB>
</root>

?

--
Werner

samjudson · January 28th, 2011, 08:17 AM

No, that's not how XSLT works at all.

I suspect this 'example' you've given here doesn't show anything like your actual requirements, so try to give us a better example showing what your input and output look like and the relationship between them.

ITemplate · January 28th, 2011, 08:27 AM

Thanks for answering,

Well consider this xml:

Code:

<root id="1">
    <node1>
      <node1_1 />
    </node1>
</root>

And this xslt:

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*[not(descendant-or-self::*[text()[normalize-space()] | @*])]">
   <xsl:message>Node <xsl:value-of select="local-name()"/> removed</xsl:message>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The result is 1 message:
"Node node1 removed"

However I need also to register that node1_1 was removed. So that I can write the information about what the xslt removed from the input to some log. The input xml could be any valid xml document.

--
Werner

Martin Honnen · January 28th, 2011, 08:34 AM

See answer in http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/For...a-235b8149b21e