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Peuge
Peuge

Reputation: 1501

XSLT and Googles custom XML site search

I am using Googles XML custom site search (Google XML sitesearch) and I am using XSLT in .NET to transform the results to HTML. I have a few question regarding XSLT.

1) Google will return something similar to the following

<GSP VER="3.2">
  <PARAM name="start" value="0" />
  <PARAM name="num" value="10" />
  <RES>
    <R>
      <PageMap>
        <DataObject>
          <Attribute name="Rating" value="4.5" />
          <Attribute name="RatingCount" value="743" />  
        </DataObject>
      </PageMap>
    </R>
  </RES>
</GSP>

I am wondering the following:

How would I get the value of one of the PARAM (i.e. Start or num)? And how would I get the value of one of the DataObject's Attributes?

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 618

Answers (3)

Phillip Kovalev
Phillip Kovalev

Reputation: 2497

I suggest to use keys in case if params in this sample needs to be accessed by names from various contexts. Using keys will also protect your sources from repeating xpath again and again.

<!-- Key declaration -->    
<xsl:key name="gsp-param" match="/GSP/PARAM/@value" use="../@name"/>

<xsl:template name="some-template">
    <!-- Get key value in unknown context -->
    <xsl:value-of select="key('gsp-param', 'num')"/>
</xsl:template>

Upvotes: 0

Flack
Flack

Reputation: 5892

Never use // when the schema is known.

To get start value use:

/GSP/PARAM[@name='start']/@value

To get num parameter:

/GSP/PARAM[@name='num']/@value

To get rating:

/GSP/RES/R/PageMap/DataObject/Attribute[@name='Rating']/@value

Upvotes: 4

oiavorskyi
oiavorskyi

Reputation: 2941

Using XPath you could refer to these values like this:

/GSP/PARAM[@name='num']/@value

For DataObject Attributes it would be

//DataObject/Attribute[@name='Rating']/@value

However you need to clarify in which context you need to get these values as expressions might me shorter in most cases (I used full path).

Upvotes: 0

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