newbie: XML and stylesheets

[Michael Lund]

Hi,

I have this XML.

<stuff>
<class name="class a" superclass="">
<field name="field a" type="int">a is an integer</field> <class> <class name="class aa" superclass="a"> <field name="field aa" type="string">aa is a string</field> <class> <class name="class ab" superclass="ab"> <field name="field b" type="stuff">b is something else</field> <class> </stuff>

I need a stylesheet that can give med the output:

Class a:
field a - integer - a is an integer

Class aa:
field a - integer - a is an integer
field aa - string - aa is a string

Class ab
field a - integer - a is an integer
field b - stuff - b is something else

But I haven't got the slightest idea how do this
NB: there is no guarantee that "class a" occur before the other classes in my XML.

Can you help get me startet?

thanks and merry christmas,
Michael

 

[Joris Gillis]

Hi,

I have this XML.

I need a stylesheet that can give med the output:
But I haven't got the slightest idea how do this
NB: there is no guarantee that "class a" occur before the other classes in my XML.

Can you help get me startet?

This stylesheet will output what you gave as an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xslutput method="text"/>
<xsl:key name="field" match="field" use="substring-after(@name, 'field ')"/>

<xsl:template match="stuff">
<xsl:apply-templates select="class">
<xsl:sort select="substring-after(@name, 'class ')"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="class">
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>:
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('field','a')|*">
<xsl:sort select="substring-after(@name, 'field ')"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="field">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The stylesheet will most likely not work in another situation because I don't really understand how it should be determined what fields have to be printed for a class. Does it perhaps depend on the 'superclass' attribute? I'm not sure... Maybe you could give more information? In any case you might use this stylesheet to get an idea how it would work.

regards,

 

[Michael Lund]

Hi,

This stylesheet will output what you gave as an example:

Thanks for your help.
I will look at this as soon as all the christmas family stuff is over

The stylesheet will most likely not work in another situation because I don't really understand how it should be determined what fields have to be printed for a class. Does it perhaps depend on the 'superclass' attribute? I'm not sure... Maybe you could give more information? In any case you might use this stylesheet to get an idea how it would work.

What I want is this: For a given class print the class name. After that print all the fields in the class starting with all the fields from the super class (and before that the fields from the super classes super class).

thanks,
Michael