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StellaMaris
StellaMaris

Reputation: 867

Using apply-template instead of call-template

Is it possible to replace the call-template statement in the following stylesheet with a apply-statement? So that the structure of the templates are nearly the same. With structure I mean that I have a xpath to select a element form the source xml e.g. /shiporder/address/city and I have a target xpath for my output xml e.g. /root/Address/Country then I step reverse through the source path. All /shiporder/address/city goes under Country all /shiporder/address goes under Address and the root shiporder become the tag root.

Source XML:

<shiporder>
  <shipto>orderperson1</shipto>
  <shipfrom>orderperson2</shipfrom>
  <address>
  <city>London</city>
  </address>
  <address>
  <city>Berlin</city>
  </address>
</shiporder>

Stylesheet:

<xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="shiporder"/>
  </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="/shiporder">
    <root>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="address/city"/>
        <xsl:call-template name="Identity" />
    </root>
 </xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="Identity">
    <Identity>
        <xsl:call-template name="Name" />
    </Identity>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="Name">
    <Name>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="/shiporder/shipto"/>
    </Name>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/shiporder/shipto">
    <Last>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
    </Last>
</xsl:template>


 <xsl:template match="/shiporder/address/city">
    <Country>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
    </Country>
 </xsl:template>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1544

Answers (2)

Xenos
Xenos

Reputation: 3507

Generally speaking, <xsl:call-template name="..."/> can be turned into a <xsl:apply-templates select="current()" mode="..."/> and <xsl:template match="node()" mode="..."/> (as long as this mode is not used anywhere else).

But there, the upvoted answer is way more suited.

Upvotes: 1

Joel M. Lamsen
Joel M. Lamsen

Reputation: 7173

you can use the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="/shiporder">
        <root>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="address/city"/>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="shipto"/>
        </root>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="shipto">
        <Identity>
            <Name>
                <Last><xsl:value-of select="."/></Last>
            </Name>
        </Identity>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="/shiporder/address/city">
        <Country>
            <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </Country>
    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 2

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