I have a requirement where I'd like to have if else statement to check whether a node has attributes or it has just string.
Eg: 1 of the node has 0 File(s) found
and the other has attribs such as <autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='64' filename='AFP_p.tgp' />
Below is a sample of two nodes
<product>
<autoIncludeUser>0 File(s) found</autoIncludeUser>
<autoIncludeSystem>
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='64' filename='AFP_p.tgp' />
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='3,879' filename='AnalystsExpressionMacros.tgp' />
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='475' filename='base64Converter.tgp' />
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='<DIR>' filename='codePages' />
</autoIncludeSystem>
<autoIncludeStudio>0 File(s) found</autoIncludeStudio>
<externalLibrarySystem>
<externalLibrarySystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:52' ampm='PM' filesize='196,608' filename='AFPtoXML_DP.dll' />
<externalLibrarySystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:52' ampm='PM' filesize='13,259' filename='ASN1toXSDRunner.jar' />
<externalLibrarySystem>
</product>
How would i identify if a node has just strings or attribs and based on that I can get the values either String
or attrib values
respectively.
You can replace your whole xsl:choose
instruction with:
<xsl:apply-templates select="autoIncludeSystem"/>
and then add two templates:
<xsl:template match="autoIncludeSystem[autoincludesystem_info/@*]>
<!-- code for elements with attributes (xsl:when) -->
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="autoIncludeSystem[not(autoincludesystem_info/@*)]>
<!-- code for elements without attributes (xsl:otherwise) -->
</xsl:template>
We can achieve if else by using below code
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="something to test">
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
So here is what I did
<h3>System</h3>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="autoIncludeSystem/autoincludesystem_info/@mdate"> <!-- if attribute exists-->
<p>
<dd><table border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<th>File Name</th>
<th>File Size</th>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Time</th>
<th>AM/PM</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="autoIncludeSystem/autoincludesystem_info">
<tr>
<td valign="top" ><xsl:value-of select="@filename"/></td>
<td valign="top" ><xsl:value-of select="@filesize"/></td>
<td valign="top" ><xsl:value-of select="@mdate"/></td>
<td valign="top" ><xsl:value-of select="@mtime"/></td>
<td valign="top" ><xsl:value-of select="@ampm"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</tbody>
</table>
</dd>
</p>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise> <!-- if attribute does not exists -->
<dd><pre>
<xsl:value-of select="autoIncludeSystem"/><br/>
</pre></dd> <br/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
My Output
I. Xpath 1.0 solution - use this single XPath expression:
concat(substring('String', 1 div boolean(text())),
' ',
substring('attrib values', 1 div boolean(@*))
)
Here is a XSLT-based verification:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*[not(*)]">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(' ', name(),': ')"/>
<xsl:value-of select=
"concat(substring('String', 1 div boolean(text())),
' ',
substring('attrib values', 1 div boolean(@*))
)
"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document (slightly corrected to be made well-formed):
<product>
<autoIncludeUser>0 File(s) found</autoIncludeUser>
<autoIncludeSystem>
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='64' filename='AFP_p.tgp' />
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='3,879' filename='AnalystsExpressionMacros.tgp' />
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='475' filename='base64Converter.tgp' />
<autoincludesystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:51' ampm='PM' filesize='<DIR>' filename='codePages' />
</autoIncludeSystem>
<autoIncludeStudio>0 File(s) found</autoIncludeStudio>
<externalLibrarySystem>
<externalLibrarySystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:52' ampm='PM' filesize='196,608' filename='AFPtoXML_DP.dll' />
<externalLibrarySystem_info mdate='08/23/2011' mtime='09:52' ampm='PM' filesize='13,259' filename='ASN1toXSDRunner.jar' />
</externalLibrarySystem>
</product>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
autoIncludeUser: String
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoIncludeStudio: String
externalLibrarySystem_info: attrib values
externalLibrarySystem_info: attrib values
Explanation We use these facts:
For any string $s
, substring($s, Infinity)
is the empty string.
1 div 0
is Infinity
By definition number(true())
is 1
and number(false())
is 0.
II. XPath 2.0 solution:
This is much easier in XPath 2.0 because the language has standard if/then/else
operator.
Use:
if(text())
then 'String'
else if(@*)
then 'attrib values'
else ()
XSLT 2.0 verification:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*[not(*)]">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(' ', name(),': ')"/>
<xsl:value-of select=
"if(text())
then 'String'
else if(@*)
then 'attrib values'
else ()
"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the same XML document (above), again the wanted, correct result is produced:
autoIncludeUser: String
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoincludesystem_info: attrib values
autoIncludeStudio: String
externalLibrarySystem_info: attrib values
externalLibrarySystem_info: attrib values
XPath //*[not(@*)]
will select all elements, which don't have attributes.
You can do this easily enough using xsl:choose
- but very often in XSLT, the better way to do conditional processing is to write different template rules to handle the different conditions. So write one template rule with match="*[@*]"
to match elements that have attributes, and another with match="*[text()]"
to match elements that have textual content.