xsl naming variables

[sb1 (archive)]

Hi

I am new to xml and I am trying to use xsl to transform my xml document to smil.

I want to create a line such as
<video src="../media/countries_video/cuba_100.ram "
id="../media/countries_video/greece_100.ram " region="x"/>

for a number of different video files, the references to which are held within my xml files. At the minute my code:

<xsl:for-each select="$destination/Country/CountryVideo">

<xsl:variable name="countryvid"
select="$destination/Country/CountryVideo"/>
<video src="{$countryvid}" id="{$countryvid}" region="x" /> </xsl:for-each>

produces the correct number of lines but each contains the reference to the same file, I'm guessing this is because I can't use the one variable to reference each. I'd appreciate it if anyone could give me some pointers on how to get around this. (Bearing in mind I'm very new to all this!)
Thanks in advance

 

[Ben Edgington]

Hi,

I am new to xml and I am trying to use xsl to transform my xml document to smil.

I want to create a line such as
<video src="../media/countries_video/cuba_100.ram "
id="../media/countries_video/greece_100.ram " region="x"/>

for a number of different video files, the references to which are held within my xml files. At the minute my code:

<xsl:for-each select="$destination/Country/CountryVideo">

<xsl:variable name="countryvid"
select="$destination/Country/CountryVideo"/>
<video src="{$countryvid}" id="{$countryvid}" region="x" /> </xsl:for-each>

produces the correct number of lines but each contains the reference to the same file, I'm guessing this is because I can't use the one variable to reference each. I'd appreciate it if anyone could give me some pointers on how to get around this. (Bearing in mind I'm very new to all this!)

This is a repost of your earlier question. I had a look at that but wasn't able to get to the bottom of what the problem is. Perhaps if you could post a small extract of your XML, a bit more of your XSL and a consistent account of the output you want (the src and id attributes on your example differ, whereas the XSLT sets them the same. What do you want?) then we could help.

Ben

 

[Andy Fish]

<xsl:for-each select="$destination/Country/CountryVideo">

<xsl:variable name="countryvid"
select="$destination/Country/CountryVideo"/>
<video src="{$countryvid}" id="{$countryvid}" region="x" /> </xsl:for-each>

inside the <xsl:for-each> the current node (i.e. ".") will be set to the node you are processing. by referencing $destination/Country/CountryVideo you are simply referring to the whole node set again. It's like iterating round a collection object but referring to the whole collection each time rather than just the current element

Assuming the CountryVideo contains just text, you need something like

<video src="{text}" id="{text}">

if the CountryVideo contains attributes, reference them like this

<video src="{@src}">

etc