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The XPath for extracting a "val" attribute looks good to me.
-W
On 26 May 2010 21:34, Ely Schoenfeld <ely.sun.1_at_mitalteli.com> wrote:
> Oooh... yesss... that's the way to put arbitrary name-value pairs.
>
> The XML using that complexType schema could have something like:
>
> <ConceptosExtraData>
> <Concepto>
> <data nam="codcli" val="value1"/>
> <data nam="extra2" val="value2"/>
> <data nam="extra3" val="value3"/>
> </Concepto>
> <Concepto>
> <data nam="codcli" val="valueA"/>
> <data nam="extra2" val="valueB"/>
> <data nam="extra3" val="valueC"/>
> </Concepto>
> </ConceptosExtraData>
>
> Now I'm looking for a way to access each extraData.xml row of "Concepto"
> from the corresponding row in the main xml, using xslt.
>
> Maybe something like this:
>
> -------------------------- BEGIN -----------------------
> <xsl:for-each select="Conceptos/Concepto">
>
> ...
>
> <xsl:variable name="pos" select="position()"
> <td><xsl:value-of
>
> select="document('extraData.xml')/ConceptosExtraData/Concepto[position()=$pos]/[@nam=codcli]/_at_val"/></td>
>
> ...
>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> -------------------------- END -------------------------
>
> I guess I don't know XPath enough, but I think it should be something
> similar to that.
>
> Am I right?
>
> (I'm now with some other problem that doesn't let me test this now. I
> will, as soon as I can)
>
> Ely.
>
>
> Wolfgang Laun escribió:
>
> A general way of storing name-value pairs in XML would be by by s.th.
>> like:
>>
>> <xs:complexType name="NamValType">
>> <xs:attribute name="nam" type="xs:string"/>
>> <xs:attribute name="val" type="xs:string"/>
>> </xs:complexType>
>>
>> or with a sequence of two elements. Association with a "detail" node could
>> be
>> done with an additional attribute.
>>
>> It's then very easy to locate the matching name-value pair. Creating
>> elements
>> from scratch is no problem in XSLT.
>>
>> -W
>>
>>
>> On 25 May 2010 23:16, Ely Schoenfeld <ely.sun.1_at_mitalteli.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all.
>>>
>>> First of all, I'm very new to XML, XSLT, JAXB and Java.
>>> Please forgive me if i'm asking a dumb question.
>>>
>>> I would really appreciate any pointers to information you could give me.
>>> I
>>> have been searching in google for days, but can't find anything useful.
>>>
>>> Sorry in advance for such a long message.
>>>
>>>
>>> INTRODUCTION:
>>>
>>> I have an XSD file that I converted into classes using JAXB. The XML
>>> generated files (invoices) are just fine in order to send information to
>>> the
>>> other party.
>>>
>>> Now I need to print (in paper) the invoices. I thought I could use XSLT
>>> to
>>> "transform" the xml, but I need to add some more information not included
>>> in
>>> the xml file. That extra information isn't always the same, not even
>>> their
>>> the attribute names.
>>>
>>>
>>> PROBLEM:
>>> So I thought I could create a second xml with "some" structure containing
>>> that extra information that the XSLT script should be able to merge with
>>> the
>>> original xml. (Maybe with the "document()" XSLT functin).
>>>
>>> When I need to get some data of the invoice header I've got no problem. I
>>> always can do someting like:
>>>
>>> --- BEGIN ------------------------
>>> <xsl:value-of
>>> select="document('extra.xml')/ComprobanteExtraData/Receptor/_at_codcli"/>
>>> --- END --------------------------
>>>
>>> The problem I'm facing now is that I haven't been able to get information
>>> from the detail part of the invoice. The "detail" nodes from the original
>>> xml that represent all the product details have no unique id, and the
>>> extra.xml file doesn't either (but the extra.xml can be changed as I
>>> need).
>>>
>>>
>>> WHAT I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT:
>>> I was thinking to add an id to the detail section of the extra.xml and
>>> add
>>> somehow a counter to the for-each part of the XSLT.
>>>
>>> I got nowhere. It's kind of difficult to "create" an XML by hand. More if
>>> I
>>> know I could use JAXB in some way.
>>>
>>> So I thought I should be able to generate an xml with basically the same
>>> classes generated by the xsd, but to be able to add arbitrary name-value
>>> pairs to those nodes instead of the ones generated from the original xsd.
>>> That way I think I should be able to merge easily the main xml with the
>>> extra.xml to transform it to a printable format (maybe html)
>>>
>>> I don't know how to do something like this... don't know how to add
>>> arbitrary name-value pairs (or attributes) to classes. The only way I can
>>> think of is a List that contains a LinkedList.... something like:
>>>
>>> --- BEGIN ------------------------
>>> List<String> datos = new LinkedList<String>();
>>> --- END --------------------------
>>>
>>> But I have no idea of how to transform it to XML or to maintain the
>>> original XML structure easily. Or even if it's a good idea to do it this
>>> way.
>>>
>>> If anybody has a tutorial, or has any pointers about how to solve this I
>>> would really appreciate it.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot.
>>>
>>> Ely
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