select attributes regardless of node level

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August 17th, 2004, 12:22 PM

1ei1a

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select attributes regardless of node level

Hi,

I have an xml document as follows:

<navigation>
<navItem href="/mysite/Default.aspx" title="Home" />
<navItem href="/mysite/About.aspx" title="About">
<subItem href="/mySite/About/Main.aspx" title="Main" />
<subItem href="/mySite/About/Products.aspx" title="Products" />
</navItem>
<navItem href="/mysite/Contact.aspx" title="Contact">
<subItem href="/mySite/Contact/Address.aspx" title="Find us" />
</navItem>
</navigation>

As you can see, I have @HREF attributes that are at different node levels within my XML document. Is it possible to loop through all the href attributes within the document regardless of their level?
My xsl looks like this at the moment:

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<xsl:for-each select="navItem/.">
<xsl:if test="@href=$href" >
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However, this obviously only searches the @href attrributes on the navItem level.

Many thanks!

August 17th, 2004, 02:59 PM

NotGoddess

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Sample stylesheet to show selections (use w/ your xml file)

PHP Code:


		
			
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

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

<xsl:output method="html" />



<xsl:template match="/">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" >

<head><title>navtest</title></head>

<body>

Shows only navItem (with or without href)

<ul>

<xsl:for-each select="//navItem">

  <li><xsl:value-of select="@href"/></li>

</xsl:for-each>

</ul>



Show any element with an 'href' attribute.

  <ul> 

    <xsl:for-each select="//@href">

      <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>

    </xsl:for-each>

  </ul>

OR

  <ul>

    <xsl:for-each select="//*/@href">

      <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>

    </xsl:for-each>

  </ul>



Only elements with an href:

  <ul>

    <xsl:for-each select="//*[@href!='']">

      <li><xsl:value-of select="@title"/> -> <xsl:value-of select="@href"/></li>

    </xsl:for-each>

  </ul>



</body>

</html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

August 18th, 2004, 05:04 AM