Given the following XML:
<current>
<login_name>jd</login_name>
</current>
<people>
<person>
<first>John</first>
<last>Doe</last>
<login_name>jd</login_name>
</preson>
<person>
<first>Pierre</first>
<last>Spring</last>
<login_name>ps</login_name>
</preson>
</people>
How can I get "John Doe" from within the current/login matcher?
I tried the following:
<xsl:template match="current/login_name">
<xsl:value-of select="../people/first[login_name = .]"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="../people/last[login_name = .]"/>
</xsl:template>
I'd define a key to index the people:
<xsl:key name="people" match="person" use="login_name" />
Using a key here simply keeps the code clean, but you might also find it helpful for efficiency if you're often having to retrieve the <person>
elements based on their <login_name>
child.
I'd have a template that returned the formatted name of a given <person>
:
<xsl:template match="person" mode="name">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(first, ' ', last)" />
</xsl:template>
And then I'd do:
<xsl:template match="current/login_name">
<xsl:apply-templates select="key('people', .)" mode="name" />
</xsl:template>
You want current()
function
<xsl:template match="current/login_name">
<xsl:value-of select="../../people/person[login_name = current()]/first"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="../../people/person[login_name = current()]/last"/>
</xsl:template>
or a bit more cleaner:
<xsl:template match="current/login_name">
<xsl:for-each select="../../people/person[login_name = current()]">
<xsl:value-of select="first"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="last"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
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