On the other hand, is it really a case of two affiliations, or just one? The University of Maryland University College (UMUC) is an American public not-for-profit university located in Adelphi in Prince George's County, Maryland
Cheers,
Carol
Carol A. Ellerbeck
Taxonomist & Metadata Manager
Knowledge & Library Services
Baker Library
Harvard Business School
PH: 617-495-6745
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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Brian Sheppard <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] direct descendants of a given element
Yeah, those affiliations really want to be within the person element, but ...
This seems to work for me:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:func="http://exslt.org/functions" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common" version="1.0" exclude-result-prefixes="func exsl date xsl">
XSLT Namespace<http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>
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The namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform is referred to as "the XSLT namespace". The prefix xsl is conventionally used to refer to this namespace (and is so ...
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes"/>
<!-- <xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/> -->
<xsl:variable name="nl">
<xsl:value-of select="' '"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="tab">
<xsl:value-of select="'	'"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//person">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(normalize-space(.), $tab )"/>
<xsl:call-template name="get_affil">
<xsl:with-param name="pers">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:value-of select="concat( $tab, ../paper )"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$nl"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ************************ -->
<xsl:template name="get_affil">
<xsl:param name="pers"/>
<xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::affiliation[ preceding-sibling::person[1] = $pers ]">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
<xsl:if test="position() != last()">
<xsl:value-of select="'|'"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
> On November 16, at 11:42 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> How can I use XSLT to find the direct descendants of a given element with a given name?
>
> I want to create a tab-delimited version of an XML file. I have the following XML snippet, and notice how each of the persons in the first presentation have a single affiliation, but the person of the second presentation has two affiliations:
>
> <session>
> <presentation>
> <person>RICHARD G. ANDERSON</person>
> <affiliation>Lindenwood University</affiliation>
> <person>AREERAT KICHKHA</person>
> <affiliation>Lindenwood University</affiliation>
> <paper>Is Less More?</paper>
> </presentation>
> <presentation>
> <person>BRIAN W. SLOBODA</person>
> <affiliation>University of Maryland</affiliation>
> <affiliation>University College</affiliation>
> <paper>Inflation Policies</paper>
> </presentation>
> </session>
>
> I want my resulting tab-delimited file to look like this:
>
> RICHARD G. ANDERSON Lindenwood University Is Less More?
> AREERAT KICHKHA Lindenwood University Is Less More?
> BRIAN W. SLOBODA University of Maryland|University College Inflation Policies
>
> I have the following XSLT snippet, but my process of getting affiliations is not nearly correct:
>
> <xsl:for-each select=".//presentation">
> <xsl:for-each select=".//person">
> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/><xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(../affiliation)"/><xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(../paper)"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> Can you offer any suggestions? What sort of XPath expression should I be using to find all of the affiliation elements between person elements? Something with following-sibling?
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UW Digital Collections Center
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