I need some advice from an XSLT/XPath guru please

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June 7th, 2004, 11:31 AM

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I need some advice from an XSLT/XPath guru please

I need some advice on the best way to approach cross-referencing XML fields. What I'm trying to accomplish is using one element attribute as a key to find a value within a second element.

i.e.
<data>
<gizmo name="foo1" value="peanuts"/>
<gizmo name="foo2" value="walnuts"/>
</data>
<index>
<widget item="Item #1" key="foo1"/>
<widget item="Item #2" key="foo2"/>
</index>

I'd like to be able to loop through the /index/widget elements and list them in the output in a manner similar the following:

Item #1 is peanuts
Item #2 is walnuts

The methods I've tried are very clumsy and I like to see a 'proper' way if one of the guru's here could show me.

Thanks.

June 7th, 2004, 06:47 PM

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I'm no guru ... and I haven't used XSL lately.

Code:

<xsl:for-each select "index">
<xsl:value-of select="@item" /> is <xsl:value-of select="/data/gizmo[position()]/@value" /><br />
</xsl:for-each>

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June 7th, 2004, 08:56 PM

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Thanks Jeremy...not quite the solution I needed but thanks for answering anyway...I found a simpler method using the <xsl:key> tag and key() call.

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