Matching multiple XPaths in xsl:template

CanOfBees · January 9th, 2012, 09:39 PM

hi all -

Thanks for reading. Is it possible to match multiple XPaths in a single <xsl:template match="">?

I have the following two file types:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TEI.2 id="1234_001">
    <teiHeader>
        <fileDesc>
            <titleStmt>
                <title>Letter (copy), <name>BDS</name> at University, to Wrox, <date value="2011-10-31">2011 Oct. 31</date>
                </title>
                <author>
                    <name>BDS</name>
                </author>
            </titleStmt>
            <publicationStmt>
                <publisher>University Special Collections</publisher>
                <date>2011-10-31</date>
                <idno type="spcId">1234_001</idno>
            </publicationStmt>
            <sourceDesc>
                <bibl>
                    <title>Letter (copy), <name>BDS</name> at University, to Wrox, <date value="2011-10-31">2011 Oct. 31</date>
                    </title>
                </bibl>
            </sourceDesc>
        </fileDesc>
    </teiHeader>
</TEI.2>

and

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ead>
    <eadheader>
        <eadid>1234</eadid>
        <filedesc>
            <titlestmt>
                <titleproper>Finding Aid Title <num>MS.0000</num>
                </titleproper>
            </titlestmt>
            <author>Finding aid prepared by BDS, October 31, 2011</author>
        </filedesc> 
        <profiledesc>
            <creation>Finding aid produced by hand
                <date>2011-10-31T11:20-0400</date>
            </creation>
        </profiledesc>
    </eadheader>
    <archdesc>
        <did>
            <unittitle>Find Aid Title,</unittitle>
            <unitid>MS.0000</unitid>
            <repository>
                <corpname>University Libraries, Special Collections</corpname>
            </repository>
            <unitdate>1912</unitdate>
        </did>
    </archdesc>
    <controlaccess>
        <head>Subjects</head>
        <subject>Subject 1</subject>
        <subject>Subject 2</subject>
        <subject>Subject 3</subject>
        <subject>Subject 4</subject>
    </controlaccess>
</ead>

I would like to access the following XPaths in the separate documents:
/ead/archdesc/did/unitdate[1]
/TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/publicationStmt/date[1]

Is something along the lines of

Code:

xsl:template match="[/ead/archdesc/did/unitdate[1] or /TEI.2/teiHeader/fileDesc/publicationStmt/date[1]]"

possible?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can offer.

samjudson · January 10th, 2012, 04:34 AM

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp

See "Selecting several paths" near the bottom.

CanOfBees · January 10th, 2012, 12:39 PM

samjudson --

Thanks very much for the reply. That get's me a step closer to a solution!

Cheers!