for-each and incrementing by the count() function

[Ken]

The fact that you can not reassign a variable in XSL is an endless
source of frustration, causing you to jump through all sorts of
non-intuitive hoops.

In this case, however, the lack of reassignment has me totally
perplexed on how to achieve a solution to the following problem:

(These are illustrative fragments)

XML:

<item id="0" name="item0">
<event description="item0_event0"/>
<event description="item0_event1"/>
</item>
<item id="1" name="item1">
<event description="item1_event0"/>
<event description="item1_event1"/>
</item>

XSL: (Incorrect, this is what I'm trying to figure out)

<xsl:for-each select="item">
<xsl:variable name="baseRow" select="position()"/>
<row>
<xsl:attribute name="index"><xsl:value-of
select="$baseRow"/></xsl:attribute>
<cell index="0">
<xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
</cell>
<cell index="1">
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
</cell>
</row>
<xsl:for-each select="event">
<row>
<xsl:attribute name="index"><xsl:value-of select="$baseRow
+ position()"/></xsl:attribute>
<cell index="0">
<xsl:value-of select="@description"/>
</cell>
</row>
</xsl:for-each>
<!-- <xsl:variable name="baseRow" select="$baseRow +
count(event)"/> --> <!-- Pseudocode -->
</xsl:for-each>

DESIRED OUTPUT AFTER XFORM:

<row index="0">
<cell index="0">0</cell>
<cell index="1">item0</cell>
</row>
<row index="1">
<cell index="0">item0_event0"</cell>
</row>
<row index="2">
<cell index="0">item0_event1"</cell>
</row>
<row index="3">
<cell index="0">1</cell>
<cell index="1">item1</cell>
</row>
<row index="4">
<cell index="0">item1_event0"</cell>
</row>
<row index="5">
<cell index="0">item1_event1"</cell>
</row>

Notice how the row index is continuously incremented. This is my
desired output, however I cannot figure out how to accomplish it.
Essentially I like to increment the base position() of the first
for-each by the count() of the second for-each at the end of the first
loop.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

 

[Dimitre Novatchev]

This is easy and straightforward.

This transformation:

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

<xslutput omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:template match="item | event">
<xsl:variable name="vRowInd">
<xsl:number count="item | event" level="any"/>
</xsl:variable>
<row index="{$vRowInd - 1}">
<xsl:for-each select="@*">
<cell index="{position() - 1}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</cell>
</xsl:for-each>
</row>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


when applied on your source.xml:

<items>
<item id="0" name="item0">
<event description="item0_event0"/>
<event description="item0_event1"/>
</item>
<item id="1" name="item1">
<event description="item1_event0"/>
<event description="item1_event1"/>
</item>
</items>

produces the wanted result:

<row index="0">
<cell index="0">0</cell>
<cell index="1">item0</cell>
</row>
<row index="1">
<cell index="0">item0_event0</cell>
</row>
<row index="2">
<cell index="0">item0_event1</cell>
</row>
<row index="3">
<cell index="0">1</cell>
<cell index="1">item1</cell>
</row>
<row index="4">
<cell index="0">item1_event0</cell>
</row>
<row index="5">
<cell index="0">item1_event1</cell>
</row>


Hope this helped.


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

 

[Ken]

Dimitre,

Thanks for taking the time to help. The union operator is something
that I'd seen before, but I wasn't able to piece that together with
xsl:number to solve my problem.

XSL (and other functional languages) are a different species of
language than Java/C++, and as I learn XSL, I have to remember to set
aside my previous ways of thinking about solving problems.