node-set problems

[Eric (archive)]

I am trying to figure out a good way to implement a XSLT transformation. Basically my goal is that I want to be able to ouput the following XML in a document:

<chart type="pie" width="100" height="100">
<data label="Foo" value="12"/>
<data label="Bar" value="15"/>
.....
</chart>

This should transform into HTML which looks like:

<img width="100" height="100"
src="chart.rhtml?type=pie&width=100&height=100&data1=Foo&label1=12&data2=Bar&label2=15"/>

chart.rhtml is a server-side script that reads the URL parameters and generates a graphical chart in PNG format. The goal is to be able to easily slap charts in pages. To generate the URL string my first thought was to use <xsl:for-each>. But when attempting to do that I ran into the problem of not being able to store the string built so far because xsl:variable cannot be modified.

So my next attempt was to create a named template that calls itself recusively passing the string built thus far as one of the parameters. When it is on the last "data" tag is simply outputs the string that was built. This works fine when using the XSLT engine of my choice because I can use xxx:node-set to convert the data nodes passed into the named template to a node set so that I can use the variable in XPath queries. But when I attempt this method on Mozilla's XSLT engine it fails because it does not seem to support a xxx:node-set function. So how do I implement this transformation using straight XSLT 1.0 code and have it work in Mozilla's XSLT engine. Any ideas? I appreciate any help that I can get.

Eric

 

[David Carlisle]

I am trying to figure out a good way to implement a XSLT transformation. Basically my goal is that I want to be able to ouput the following XML in a document:

<chart type="pie" width="100" height="100">
<data label="Foo" value="12"/>
<data label="Bar" value="15"/>
....
</chart>

This should transform into HTML which looks like:

<img width="100" height="100"
src="chart.rhtml?type=pie&width=100&height=100&data1=Foo&label1=12&data2=Bar&label2=15"/>

chart.rhtml is a server-side script that reads the URL parameters and generates a graphical chart in PNG format. The goal is to be able to easily slap charts in pages. To generate the URL string my first thought was to use <xsl:for-each>. But when attempting to do that I ran into the problem of not being able to store the string built so far because xsl:variable cannot be modified.

So my next attempt was to create a named template that calls itself recusively passing the string built thus far as one of the parameters. When it is on the last "data" tag is simply outputs the string that was built. This works fine when using the XSLT engine of my choice because I can use xxx:node-set to convert the data nodes passed into the named template to a node set so that I can use the variable in XPath queries. But when I attempt this method on Mozilla's XSLT engine it fails because it does not seem to support a xxx:node-set function. So how do I implement this transformation using straight XSLT 1.0 code and have it work in Mozilla's XSLT engine. Any ideas? I appreciate any help that I can get.

Eric

clearly you need to generate

<img width="100" height="100"
src="chart.rhtml?type=pie&amp;width=100&amp;height=100&amp;data1=Foo&amp;label1=12&amp;data2=Bar&amp;label2=15"/>

otherwise it wouldn't be well formed XML (or HTML). I don't understand your comment about xx:node-set. mozilla doesn't support it but if you are passing nodes into the template they are already a node set so you don't need any extension function. xx:node-set is only used to coerce result tree fragments to node sets ie nodes generated during the transform, not nodes selected from the source. The fact that variables can not be updated is not a restriction (it never is) and in this case you don't need any variables at all, I think you just need something like this (untested)

<xsl:template match="chart">
<img>
<xsl:attribute name="src">
<xsl:text>chart.rhtml?type=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@type"/>
<xsl:text>&amp;width=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@width"/>
<xsl:text>&amp;height=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@height"/>
<xsl:for-each select="data">
<xsl:text>&amp;data</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="position"/>
<xsl:text>=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@label"/>
<xsl:text>&amp;label</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="position"/>
<xsl:text>=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="@value"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:attribute>
</img>
</xsl:template>

David