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From that same document and from the single principle (of the several) that you are referring to.
"Attributes are designed for expressing simple properties of the information represented in an element."
As an example a font is a property of the text of a book. So the font is an attribute. The text is not. Notice as well that the text itself is a element value.
So exactly how would you structure the data of the OP such that an element value has attributes which are properties?
Besides the principles (plural) of that link which I also use I can only note that in my experience attributes also suffer from a lack of easy display and no way to comment values (xml comments.)
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Notice as well that the text itself is a element value.
A text that does not represent a value of an enumeration should always be in an element, because of the mandatory attribute normalization in XML.
So exactly how would you structure the data of the OP such that an element value has attributes which are properties?
Like this:
Personally, I would prefer the markup below as more consistent, but the one above is perfectly OK.
<pre lang="xml">
<meter ref="00895289">
<reading date="14/12/10" value="2"/>
<reading date="28/09/10" value="0"/>
<reading date="23/08/10" value="0"/>
<reading date="02/03/10" value="9"/>
</meter>
<meter ref="00895298">
<reading date="02/12/10" value="275"/>
<reading date="22/09/10" value="274"/>
<reading date="02/06/10" value="274"/>
<reading date="02/03/10" value="274"/>
</meter>
in my experience attributes also suffer from a lack of easy display and no way to comment values (xml comments.)
I tend to disregard display concerns, as XML is not specifically a presentation-oriented language. As far as inability to comment attributes goes, I think that humans should not be exposed to reading and writing XML so much as to need comments. There was an excellent post on the subject[^] ten years ago, which I think is even more applicable today.
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Second example is inconsistent with the link since the attributes do not act on anything.
First is just odd.
dasblinkenlight wrote: I tend to disregard display concerns...
The link you posted specifically lists readability as a principle.
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Reformating as blocks rather than sequential would seem a bit more friendly.
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I have an xhtml file that is valid and im running a simple xslt sheey against him only to be able to catch the body element and it dosent work.
The xml:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
<a name="top"></a>
</body>
</html>
The xslt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt" exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="body">
here
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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Change your xml as shown below.
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> --- > <html>
This name space reference is creating issues.
Thanks,
Nagaraj
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I have a string in an XML file and I want to display each letter (or number) in a different box (div). So I made the div tag and I want to display one letter (or number) in it.
Currently I have this code:
...
<!-- text to itterate over -->
<xsl:variable name="text">name person</xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="loop">
<xsl:with-param name="text" />
</xsl:call-template>
...
<xsl:template name="loop">
<xsl:param name="text" />
<xsl:param name="count">1</xsl:param>
<xsl:if test="not(count = string-length($text))">
<div class="fillIn">
<xsl:value-of select="substring($text, $count, 1)"/>
</div>
<xsl:call-template name="loop">
<xsl:with-param name="count" select="$count + 1" />
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$text" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Any advice on what I can improve? Because this isn't working.
Thanks in advance!
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1. Use $test as a constant.
2. Rename your param $text to something else, e.g. $sub_text and select="$text" (without this you have an empty string
3. Your if test is incorrect. count does not have a '$' in front of it.
"not($count = string-length($text))"
4. The last parm $text should be renamed to $sub_text and select attrib set to "substring($text, $count + 1)" since you should be chopping off the first character and passing it to the next recursion.
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill
modified on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 7:55 PM
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Hello mates,
I am new to XSL and would like to transform a NewML G2 format XML into another XML.
For example I have:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!--
- Structure: NML2 SNI Text
-->
<!-- ========================================================= -->
<newsMessage xmlns="http://iptc.org/std/nar/2006-10-01/" xmlns:rtr="http://www.reuters.com/ns/2003/08/content" xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<header>
<transmitId>tag:123.com,0000:newsml_N19279043:609406403</transmitId>
<priority>3</priority>
<destination>ABX</destination>
</header>
<itemSet>
<newsItem conformance="power" guid="tag:reuters.com,0000:newsml_N19279043" standard="NewsML-G2" standardversion="2.1" version="609406403" xml:lang="en">
<itemMeta>
<itemClass qcode="icls:text" rtr:msgType="S"/>
<provider literal="reuters.com"/>
<versionCreated>2011-05-20T05:00:27.000Z</versionCreated>
</itemMeta>
<contentMeta>
<urgency>3</urgency>
<infoSource literal="Reuters" role="cRole:origProv"/>
<subject qcode="N2:BNK"/>
<headline>My Headline</headline>
<by>ABC</by>
</contentMeta>
<contentSet>
<inlineXML contenttype="application/xhtml+html" wordcount="881">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title/>
</head>
<body>
<p>Paragraph A</p>
<p>* Paragraph A</p>
</body>
</html>
</inlineXML>
</contentSet>
</newsItem>
</itemSet>
</newsMessage>
I would like my result XML to be something like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MyData>
<MyTransmitId>tag:123.com,0000:newsml_N19279043:609406403</MyTransmitId>
<MyHeadline>My Headline</MyHeadline>
<MyContent>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title/>
</head>
<body>
<p>Paragraph A</p>
<p>* Paragraph A</p>
</body>
</html>
</MyContent>
</MyData>
I come out with the following XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" />
<xsl:template match="/newsMessage">
<MyTransmitId>
<xsl:value-of select="header/transmitId"/>
</MyTransmitId>
<MyHeadline>
<xsl:value-of select="itemSet/newsItem/contentMeta/headline"/>
</MyHeadline>
<MyContent>
<xsl:value-of select="itemSet/newsItem/contentSet/inlineXML"/>
</MyContent>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
However it transforms to something not quite right.
What is wrong with my XSL?
Thank you very much.
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Hi,
I would use the following stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes" media-type="text/html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:element name="MyData">
<xsl:element name="MyTransmitId">
<xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='transmitId']"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="MyHeadline">
<xsl:value-of select="//*[name()='headline']"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="MyContent">
<xsl:copy-of select="//*[name()='inlineXML']/*"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I am not sure this is the best way, but it seems to generate the desired output
Erik
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Thanks a lot Erik! This is exactly what I want.
I happened to get another solution, I posted here for the benefits of others:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:itpc="http://iptc.org/std/nar/2006-10-01/">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/itpc:newsMessage">
<MyData>
<MyTransmitId>
<xsl:value-of
select="itpc:header/itpc:transmitId"/>
</MyTransmitId>
<MyHeadline>
<xsl:value-of
select="itpc:itemSet/itpc:newsItem/itpc:contentMeta/itpc:headline"/>
</MyHeadline>
<MyContent>
<xsl:copy-of
select="itpc:itemSet/itpc:newsItem/itpc:contentSet/itpc:inlineXML/*"/>
</MyContent>
</MyData>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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I would like to write queries over an XML data set using the XQuery language virsion 1.0 or 2.0
and generate single XML output file for the following xml files :
authors.xml
<br />
<authors><br />
<author><br />
<name>AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio</name><br />
<born-died>b. ca. 1447, Pavia, d. 1522, Milano</born-died><br />
<nationality>Italian</nationality><br />
<biography> Giovanni Antonio Amadeo was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect, and engineer..</biography><br />
</author><br />
</authors><br />
---------------------------------
artworks.xml
<br />
<artworks><br />
<artwork><br />
<title> Fade of the church </title><br />
<author> AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio </author><br />
<date>1473</date><br />
<technique> Marble <technique><br />
<location> Certosa, Pavia </location><br />
<form> architecture </form><br />
<type>religious</type><br />
</artwork><br />
</artworks><br />
----------------------------------
Sample for the expected output :
output.xml
<br />
<authors><br />
<author><br />
<name>AMADEO, Giovanni Antonio</name><br />
<born-died>b. ca. 1447, Pavia, d. 1522, Milano</born-died><br />
<nationality>Italian</nationality><br />
<biography>Giovanni Antonio Amadeo was an Italian early Renaissance sculptor, architect, and engineer..</biography><br />
<artworks form="architecture"><br />
<artwork date="1473"><br />
<title>Fade of the church</title><br />
<technique>Marble</technique><br />
<location>Certosa, Pavia</location><br />
</artwork><br />
</artworks><br />
</authors><br />
I would like to merge these two XML documents and create a new XML file, in which the following information should be stored for each author: name, born-died, nationality,biography, and all artworks. The artworks are grouped by form and then sorted on date. For each artwork, title, technique, and location are stored.
thank you .
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And what exactly is your question?
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I have two xml files "authors.xml" and "artworks.xml"
I want to write queries over the XML data set in a file "combine.xq" using the XQuery language virsion 1.0 or 2.0
and generate single XML output file "output.xml" .
Thanks
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Neno99 wrote: I want to write queries over the XML data set
So, once again, what is your problem or question?
The best things in life are not things.
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You already told us what you want to do.
That is not a question.
If you want someone to write the entire solution for you then you should ask that. Someone might do it. Or not.
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Hi can anyone tell me, how to bind a data to class objects from a list, so that i can pass it in xml request..
here is my code in xsd generated class.
public partial class SetValue
{
private string dANameField;
private string dAIDField;
private SetValueType setValueTypeField;
public string DAName
{
get
{
return this.dANameField;
}
set
{
this.dANameField = value;
}
}
public string DAID
{
get
{
return this.dAIDField;
}
set
{
this.dAIDField = value;
}
}
public SetValueType SetValueType
{
get
{
return this.setValueTypeField;
}
set
{
this.setValueTypeField = value;
}
}
}
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "2.0.50727.3038")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = "http://xml.abc.com/ns/msjava/lrm")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "http://xml.abc.com/ns/msjava/lrm", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class SetValueType
{
private string valueTypeIDField;
private string valueTypeField;
private string valueField;
private Function functionField;
private Field fieldField;
public string ValueTypeID
{
get
{
return this.valueTypeIDField;
}
set
{
this.valueTypeIDField = value;
}
}
public string ValueType
{
get
{
return this.valueTypeField;
}
set
{
this.valueTypeField = value;
}
}
public string Value
{
get
{
return this.valueField;
}
set
{
this.valueField = value;
}
}
public Function Function
{
get
{
return this.functionField;
}
set
{
this.functionField = value;
}
}
public Field Field
{
get
{
return this.fieldField;
}
set
{
this.fieldField = value;
}
}
}
here i have to do something, so that i can add the data in this list to class type(SetValueType), so that later i will convert it into xml format..
SetValue DAESetvalue = new SetValue
{
DAID=oSetValue.DAID,
DAName=oSetValue.DAName
};
DADirective.SetValue = DAESetvalue;
List<SetValueType> SetValueTypeList = new List<SetValueType>();
GetValueTypeCondition(gValueTypeCondition,SetValueTypeList);
public void GetValueTypeCondition(Grid gValueTypeCondition,List<SetValueType> SetValueTypeList)
{
int rowcount = 0;
if (gValueTypeCondition.RowDefinitions != null)
rowcount = gValueTypeCondition.RowDefinitions.Count;
for (int i = 0; i < rowcount; i++)
{
SetValueType oSetValueType = new SetValueType();
foreach (UIElement element in gValueTypeCondition.Children.Cast<UIElement>().Where(element => Grid.GetRow(element) == i))
{
if (element is ComboBox)
{
ComboBox cbvaluetype = (ComboBox)element;
if (cbvaluetype.Uid != null)
{
Object obj = ((ComboBoxItem)(cbvaluetype.SelectedItem)).Tag;
if (obj != null)
{
if (cbvaluetype.Uid == DataKey.FUNCTION_KEY)
{
DAFunction dafunction = (DAFunction)obj;
oSetValueType.ValueTypeID = "2";
oSetValueType.ValueType = "Function";
oSetValueType.Function.FunctionID = dafunction.FunctionID;
oSetValueType.Function.FunctionName = dafunction.FunctionName;
oSetValueType.Function.DataType1 = dafunction.DataType1;
oSetValueType.Function.DataType2 = dafunction.DataType2;
oSetValueType.Function.DataType3 = dafunction.DataType3;
}
else if (cbvaluetype.Uid == DataKey.COLUMN_CONDITION_KEY)
{
DAColumn dacobj = (DAColumn)obj;
oSetValueType.ValueTypeID = "3";
oSetValueType.ValueType = "Field";
oSetValueType.Field.FieldID = dacobj.id;
oSetValueType.Field.FieldValue = dacobj.name;
}
}
}
}
else if (element is TextBox)
{
TextBox txtValueType = (TextBox)element;
switch (txtValueType.Uid)
{
case DataKey.TEXT_VALUE_KEY:
oSetValueType.ValueTypeID = "1";
oSetValueType.ValueType = "Value";
oSetValueType.Value = txtValueType.Text.Replace("_", "").Trim();
break;
case DataKey.TEXT_FUNCTION_VALUE_KEY:
oSetValueType.Function.FunctionValue = txtValueType.Text.Replace("_", "").Trim();
break;
}
}
}
SetValueTypeList.Add(oSetValueType);
}
}
so any help like how to do it...
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If I understand the question.
You have a XSD which represent a type X.
You want to to create XML that has a list of X values.
That of course is invalid in terms of the XSD. By definition the XSD does not define a list so it cannot include a list.
So your choice are change the XSD, use a different XSD or don't use a list (as a single XML production.)
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Dear all,
In my application i have an XML like this..
I want to perform a search in this XML Based on SubID, ModuleId, TaskName, between start and end dates. Please help me. Also i need all the parents of the searched nodes without siblings.
<Tasks>
<Task TaskId=1 PId=0 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 1" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011">
<Task TaskId=2 PId=1 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 2" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
<Task TaskId=3 PId=1 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 3" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
<Task TaskId=4 PId=1 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 4" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
<Task TaskId=5 PId=1 SubId=1 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 5" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011">
<Task TaskId=6 PId=5 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 6" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
<Task TaskId=7 PId=5 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 7" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011">
<Task TaskId=8 PId=7 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 8" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
</Task>
<Task TaskId=9 PId=5 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 9" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
</Task>
<Task TaskId=10 PId=1 SubId=0 ModuleId=0 TaskName="Task 10" StartDate="1 Apr 2011" EndDate="12 Apr 2011"/>
</Task>
</Tasks>
Please help
Regards,
DJ
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I am not answering your entire question, but I have a thought about one component of it:
Do you have any control over the date format of the initial XML that is provided to you?
If you were to receive the date values in ISO format (YYYY-MM-DD), then you could use a simple string comparison (greater than or less than) in your xpath or xsl to determine whether the dates fall in date ranges.
--Greg
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OK, I posted another XPath query a few days ago and you might think that by now I should have figured this stuff out a little better, but...
I need to retrieve the ts_value from the following XML snippet where the ts_date is a specific value. The document is:
<timeSeries>
<ts><ts_date>2010-06-30</ts_date><ts_value>1.235648</value></ts>
<ts><ts_date>2010-07-31</ts_date><ts_value>564654.235648</value></ts>
<ts><ts_date>2010-08-31</ts_date><ts_value>5465465.235648</value></ts>
<ts><ts_date>2010-09-30</ts_date><ts_value>952031.235648</value></ts>
</timeSeries>
I'm trying to follow the xpath syntax I've seen on the web as much as possible.
/timeSeries/ts[ts_date='2010-09-30']
But I'm getting no results.
Anyone?
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Got it!
Here is the XPath to retrieve the ts_value for the particular ts_date node :
String xPath = "/timeSeries/ts[ts_date='2010-06-30']/ts_value";
Your xpath will return the whole node "ts" node. To get to the "ts_value" node, you have to add this : /ts_value.
and then retrieve its value :
XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode(xPath);
String nodeValue = node.InnerText;
Hope it helped! 
People with high attitude deserve the standing ovation of our highest finger!
My Blog![ ^]
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Nice one!! I think I was trying to be too iterative; the parser was returning null because I wasn't selecting the ts_value to return.
Cheers!
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Heeeeelp please,
I have problems to build my own xsd file.
I need to create tags xsd for these tags xml:
<Condition>
<Value Vtype=“Color”>
<!-- Tags_1 -->
<List Value=“RE|GB=Red;FR=Rouge"/>
<List Value=“BL|GB=Blue;FR=Bleu"/>
<List Value=“BK|GB=Black;FR=Noir"/>
</Value>
<Value Vtype=“Form”>
<!-- Tags_2 -->
<List Value=“RE|GB=Rectangel;FR=Rectangle"/>
<List Value=“CI|GB=Circle;FR=Cercle"/>
</Value>
</Condition>
what i want is to link Tags 1 to value of attribute type of elemt Value.
example: if i have in XML
<Value Vtype=“Color”>
it should be followed by Tags_1 not Tags_2 and reverse.
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I would like to know how to do that too - although I have a sneaky feeling it can't be done
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