XML / XSL

26-Aug-08 5:40

Member 4703966 wrote:
I have no idea how to achieve the desire output.

Anyone who is a beginner would be in that same situation. Rather than ask someone to do it for you, you should be learning the XML/XSLT technology, that's what a developer does.

Member 4703966 wrote:
Can anyone provide an example?

There are many examples on the internet. Try the Top XML site and www.w3schools.com, both have great tutorials with sample/example code.

led mike

Re: xml to xml

led mike27-Aug-08 6:25

27-Aug-08 6:25

Since you voted my post down I guess that means you don't believe that as a developer you should learn the technology you need to work with.

Ok, good luck.

led mike

XSL copy-of problem!

Saul Johnson24-Aug-08 5:46

24-Aug-08 5:46

Hi All!

The advice I got from this forum in regards to using copy-of instead of value-of was excellent, my XSL is working almost perfectly, however there is one small problem.

This XSL:

<xsl:template match="/HTML/BODY//B">
		<B ID="{@ID}" CLASS="{@CLASS}" TITLE="{@TITLE}" STYLE="{@STYLE}" DIR="{@DIR}" LANG="{@LANG}" ONFOCUS="{@ONFOCUS}" ONBLUR="{@ONBLUR}" ONCLICK="{@ONCLICK}" ONDBLCLICK="{@ONDBLCLICK}" ONMOUSEDOWN="{@ONMOUSEDOWN}" ONMOUSEUP="{@ONMOUSEUP}" ONMOUSEOVER="{@ONMOUSEOVER}" ONMOUSEMOVE="{@ONMOUSEMOVE}" ONMOUSEOUT="{@ONMOUSEOUT}" ONKEYPRESS="{@ONKEYPRESS}" ONKEYDOWN="{@ONKEYDOWN}" ONKEYUP="{@ONKEYUP}">
			<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
		</B>
	</xsl:template>

Produces this output:

<B ONCLICK="" ONDBLCLICK="" ONMOUSEDOWN="" ONMOUSEUP="" ONMOUSEOVER="" ONMOUSEMOVE="" ONMOUSEOUT="" ONKEYPRESS="" ONKEYDOWN="" ONKEYUP="" ID="" CLASS="" TITLE="" STYLE="" DIR="" LANG="">
<B>
   Hello World!
</B></B>

From this input:

<B>
			Hello World!
			
		</B><BR/>

The B tags are being duplicated due to my use of the "." Xpath syntax, however when I tried "child::*" the text inside all single level tags like:

<B>Hello World!</B>

is not displayed at all.

Can anybody suggest a soloution to this problem.

Thanks!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

Frank Horn25-Aug-08 8:11

25-Aug-08 8:11

Starting to feel sort of responsible for your project...

I'm not sure what the problem is this time though. What's the overall goal of your transformation?
Do you want to

a) copy all the B and EM tags of some HTML to a self defined XML( or HTML) structure,

or

b) reproduce a complete HTML with all B and EM tags having a set of attributes which may be missing in the original?

When a: what's your target structure?

When b: probably a little recursion is called for.
http://www.xmlplease.com/xsltidentity
might be a good link to start with.

Saul Johnson25-Aug-08 11:22

25-Aug-08 11:22

Hi and Thanks!

Frank... Your help has been fantastic, clear and precise. If not for your help I'd still be trying to copy nodes with value-of Laugh | :laugh:

.

The article you provided solved my problem completely and was exactly what I was looking for.

However there is just one more little nagging detail.

How would I only output attributes with a value, so that all attributes such as ONCLICK="" will not be displayed?

Thanks for all your help!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

Frank Horn25-Aug-08 21:10

25-Aug-08 21:10

In the article they suppress the id attributes with the help of a template

<xsl:template match="@id"/>

which matches them but does nothing.

I think you're looking for something like

<xsl:template match="@*[string-length(.)=0]"/>

Haven't tried it out though; could be faulty, but I hope you get the idea.

Saul Johnson1-Sep-08 0:35

XSL value-of output problem!

1-Sep-08 0:35

Hi and Thanks!

Thanks Frank! Problem solved, that template was just what I needed to complete my project!

Thanks Again!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

transform XML to XML

StevenGoldberg23-Aug-08 11:56

StevenGoldberg

23-Aug-08 11:56

I have XML that I need to tranform to another structure of XML. The XML I need to transform is below:

<ArrayNode>
<Base>
<aa>1</aa>
<bb>text</bb>
<cc>
<ccc>
<cccc>text#1</cccc>
<cccc2>text#1</cccc2>
</ccc>
<ccc>
<cccc>text#2</cccc>
<cccc2>text#2</cccc2>
</ccc>
</cc>
<dd>text</dd>
</Base>
<Base>
<aa>2</aa>
<bb>text2</bb>
<cc>
<ccc>
<cccc>text#3</cccc>
<cccc2>text#3<cccc2>
</ccc>
<dd>text</dd>
</Base>
</ArrayNode>

This needs be tranformed to:

<ArrayNode>
<Base>
<aa></aa>
<bb></bb>
<cc>
<ccc>
<cccc>Text#1</cccc>
<cccc2>Text#1</cccc2>
</ccc>
</cc>
<dd></dd>
</Base>
<Base>
<aa></aa>
<bb></bb>
<cc>
<ccc>
<cccc>Text#2</cccc>
<cccc2>Text#2</cccc2>
</ccc>
</cc>
<dd></dd>
</Base>
<Base>
<aa></aa>
<bb><bb>
<cc>
<ccc>
<cccc>Text#3</cccc>
<cccc2>Text#3<cccc2>
</ccc>
<cc>
<dd></dd>
</Base>
</ArrayNode>

Wherever <ccc> exists, it needs to loop over each <ccc> and insert each individual <ccc> into the rest of the data for that <Base> group. So if there are 3 <ccc>'s, it should repeat the entire <Base> group and insert one of the <ccc> nodes.

Thanks in advance

Saul Johnson22-Aug-08 8:24

Re: XSL value-of output problem!

22-Aug-08 8:24

Hi All!

After the success of the help I got on my earlier post I have run into another problem.
While all my tags now work anywhere in the document below the BODY tag, my xsl:value-of in my earlier post fails to output any tags below the first one, for instance:

<B>
	<EM>
		Hello World!
	</EM>
</B>

Only Outputs:

<B ONCLICK="" ONDBLCLICK="" ONMOUSEDOWN="" ONMOUSEUP="" ONMOUSEOVER="" ONMOUSEMOVE="" ONMOUSEOUT="" ONKEYPRESS="" ONKEYDOWN="" ONKEYUP="" ID="" CLASS="" TITLE="" STYLE="" DIR="" LANG="">
   Hello World!
</B>

The EM Tags are being ignored completely, and when the tags are swapped the B tags are ignored completely.

Does anyone know why this is happening, and if so, can anyone suggest a fix or workaround?

Thanks!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

Saul Johnson23-Aug-08 4:16

Re: XSL value-of output problem!

23-Aug-08 4:16

Hi All!

It has just occurred to be that my original question could have been put far more simply:

How would I output unescaped HTML tags using the xsl:value-of element, I have tried disable-output-escaping="yes" but the html tags within are just ignored and seemingly not outputted at all.

Thanks!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

Frank Horn23-Aug-08 9:25

Re: XSL value-of output problem!

23-Aug-08 9:25

Have you tried copy-of instead of value-of?

Saul Johnson23-Aug-08 11:51

23-Aug-08 11:51

Hi And Thanks!

Thanks Frank! Again you have provided the soloution to a problem I have been grappling with for weeks!

Thanks Again!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

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debobrata21-Aug-08 1:27

debobrata

21-Aug-08 1:27

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Repost

led mike21-Aug-08 4:58

How to get the attribute name from xml using xslt

21-Aug-08 4:58

Don't repost your question. You were given reasonable answers on your first post.

debobrata wrote:
the source code I got for the XML Notepad from the Codeplex.com is not building.

The project you describe is far to ambitious for a developer that can't even compile an open source project.

led mike

ThangamSundar20-Aug-08 23:43

ThangamSundar

20-Aug-08 23:43

Hai,
i want to get the attribute names from the xml using xslt...
my xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcatalog.xsl"?>

<catalog>
<cd select="true">
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
<cd select="true">
<title>Hide your heart</title>
<artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist>
<country>UK</country>
<company>CBS Records</company>
<price>9.90</price>
<year>1988</year>
</cd>

</catalog>

Now i want to get the value select equal to true or false..
Any one help me....

Regards,
Subbu.H

Re: How to get the attribute name from xml using xslt

led mike21-Aug-08 4:56

Qualified XML Root, InvalidOperationException while deserializing

21-Aug-08 4:56

H.Subbulakshmi wrote:
i want to get the attribute names from the xml using xslt

H.Subbulakshmi wrote:
Now i want to get the value select equal to true or false..

I don't know what that means but the following XSLT will render the names of all the attributes that have the value true

<xsl:for-each select="//*/@*[.='true']">
  <p>
    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
  </p>
</xsl:for-each>

led mike

abcxyz8220-Aug-08 9:49

abcxyz82

20-Aug-08 9:49

Class declaration:

[XmlRoot(Namespace="http://www.example.com/Person")]
class Person
{
 [XmlElement(Form=System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
 Public string Name;
}

Serialized XML using XMLSerializer and XMLSerializerNamespace

<ns0:person xmlns:ns0="http://www.example.com/Person">
    <name>Bill</name>
</ns0:person>
</pre>

I am having trouble deserializing above XML and create an instance of Person class with Name property. Also I did not find a way to pass "ns0" namespace prefix to deserialization.

Any help or direction will greatly be appreciated in any .NET compliant language.

XSL Nesting Problem!

Saul Johnson19-Aug-08 6:00

19-Aug-08 6:00

Hi All!

I need to emulate the HTML <B> and <EM> tags complete with all attributes and event handlers for a little project of mine and everything works fine when these elements are seperate, Here's my xsl stylesheet:

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

<xsl:template match="/HTML/BODY/EM">
		<EM ID="{@ID}" CLASS="{@CLASS}" TITLE="{@TITLE}" STYLE="{@STYLE}" DIR="{@DIR}" LANG="{@LANG}" ONCLICK="{@ONCLICK}" ONDBLCLICK="{@ONDBLCLICK}" ONMOUSEDOWN="{@ONMOUSEDOWN}" ONMOUSEUP="{@ONMOUSEUP}" ONMOUSEOVER="{@ONMOUSEOVER}" ONMOUSEMOVE="{@ONMOUSEMOVE}" ONMOUSEOUT="{@ONMOUSEOUT}" ONKEYPRESS="{@ONKEYPRESS}" ONKEYDOWN="{@ONKEYDOWN}" ONKEYUP="{@ONKEYUP}"><xsl:value-of select="self::EM"/></EM>
	</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/HTML/BODY/B">
		<B ONCLICK="{@ONCLICK}" ONDBLCLICK="{@ONDBLCLICK}" ONMOUSEDOWN="{@ONMOUSEDOWN}" ONMOUSEUP="{@ONMOUSEUP}" ONMOUSEOVER="{@ONMOUSEOVER}" ONMOUSEMOVE="{@ONMOUSEMOVE}" ONMOUSEOUT="{@ONMOUSEOUT}" ONKEYPRESS="{@ONKEYPRESS}" ONKEYDOWN="{@ONKEYDOWN}" ONKEYUP="{@ONKEYUP}" ID="{@ID}" CLASS="{@CLASS}" TITLE="{@TITLE}" STYLE="{@STYLE}" DIR="{@DIR}" LANG="{@LANG}" ><xsl:value-of select="self::B"/></B>
	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Now this works fine when <B> and <EM> are seperate, however when one tag is inside the other the result is no formatting at all!

The problem is that the match attribute of each xsl:template tag is only neing applied to B and EM tags in the BODY, is there any way I can apply the B and EM templates to the BODY and to all infinetly deeper nesting levels?

Thanks!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

led mike19-Aug-08 11:11

19-Aug-08 11:11

MrWolfy wrote:
the result is no formatting at all!

No formatting in what? A Browser? If so, looking at your XSL isn't helping us at all.

Post the HTML that is not rendering correctly and the browser version you are using.

led mike

Frank Horn19-Aug-08 21:16

19-Aug-08 21:16

<xsl:template match="/HTML/BODY/descendant::EM">

Saul Johnson20-Aug-08 3:25

20-Aug-08 3:25

Hi and Thanks!

Thanks Frank! The code works perfectly! Problem Solved!

Thanks Again!

MrWolfy Big Grin | :-D

Frank Horn20-Aug-08 8:05

20-Aug-08 8:05

You're welcome. In case you can read German or French, this is where I learnt it all:

http://selfhtml.org/

I hardly ever use websites in my native language when it comes to software development cause anglophone sites are abundant and (when they have a forum) well populated, but this one is so good I took it on as my default HTML and XSL reference.

led mike20-Aug-08 8:32