On 3/4/06, geoff hopkins <geoffhopkins123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I did but got no reply....
>
> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 23:40:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: "geoff hopkins" <geoffhopkins123@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Select value from document -T2
>
> Take2.
>
> Below is a example of an input xml basically have to
> change the format to that below.  So when START is
> found start reading and stop reading when STOP is
> found.  Have sorted this out ok!
>
> The problem I have is getting the value which is
> outside of the START and STOP tags @doc it is uniquely
> identified in the document as having 'Name:' at the
> start of the text within the node (would prefer it to
> search for first instance of this text)
>
> I can't share the true xml doc for data protection
> issues.
>
> Thanks. Geoff
>
> Example of input doc.
>
> <root>
> <a>sdfsdfsd</a>
> <a>dsfssdf</a>
> <a>Name: DOC_ID1</a>
> <a>iuhs</a>
> <a>sdfsdf</a>
> <a>sdfsd</a>
> <a>START</a>
> <a>A1,A2</a>
> <a>A3,A4</a>
> <a>A5,A6</a>
> <a>A7,A8</a>
> <a>STOP</a>
> <a>sdfsdfds</a>
> <a>sdfsdfsd</a>
> </root>
>
> Example of output:
> <root>
> <doc>
> <relationship parent="A1" child="A2" doc="DOC_ID1"/>
> <relationship parent="A3" child="A4" doc="DOC_ID1"/>
> <relationship parent="A5" child="A6" doc="DOC_ID1"/>
> <relationship parent="A7" child="A8" doc="DOC_ID1"/>
> </doc>
> </root>



<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="root">
  <root>
    <doc>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="a[preceding-sibling::a[. = 'START']]
                                    [following-sibling::a[. = 'STOP']]"/>
	</doc>
  </root>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="a">
  <relationship parent="{substring-before(., ',')}"
     child="{substring-after(., ',')}"
     doc="{substring-after(../a[contains(., 'Name: ')], 'Name: ')}"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>