XML/XSLT stylesheet/ancestor
ancestor::node index
File: Data.xml
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Transform.xslt"?>
<orgchart date="28 March 2001">
<person>
<name>chart 1</name>
<title>title1</title>
<reports>
<person>
<name>a</name>
<title>b</title>
<reports>
<person>
<name>c</name>
<title>d</title>
</person>
<person>
<name>e</name>
<title>f</title>
</person>
</reports>
</person>
<person>
<name>S</name>
<title>M</title>
</person>
<person>
<name>S</name>
<title>I</title>
</person>
</reports>
</person>
</orgchart>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:param name="title">Management Structure</xsl:param>
<xsl:output indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="$title" />
</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
<xsl:value-of select="$title" />
</h1>
<p>
The following responsibilies were announced on
<xsl:value-of select="/orgchart/@date" />
:
</p>
<table border="2" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Role</th>
<th>Reporting to</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="//person">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="name" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of
select="ancestor::person[1]/name" />
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
<hr />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Management Structure</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Management Structure</h1>
<p>
The following responsibilies were announced on
28 March 2001
:
</p>
<table border="2" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<th>Name</th>
<th>Role</th>
<th>Reporting to</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>chart 1</td>
<td>title1</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>a</td>
<td>b</td>
<td>chart 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>c</td>
<td>d</td>
<td>a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>e</td>
<td>f</td>
<td>a</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>S</td>
<td>M</td>
<td>chart 1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>S</td>
<td>I</td>
<td>chart 1</td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
Get value: $node/ancestor::node()
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="Transform.xslt" type="text/xsl"?>
<employees xmlns="http://www.domain.ru/namespace/employee">
<title>Employee Data File</title>
<employee eid="1" dept="programming">
<contact addInfo="info1">
<name>
<firstName>Joe</firstName>
<middleName int="B">Brian</middleName>
<lastName>Smith</lastName>
</name>
<address>
<street>1 Drive</street>
<city>Vancouver</city>
<state>BC</state>
<zipcode>80210</zipcode>
</address>
<phone>
<tel type="wk">111-1111111</tel>
<tel type="hm">222-222222</tel>
<fax>303-4667357</fax>
</phone>
<email>a@a.ru</email>
</contact>
<hireDate>2008-10-29</hireDate>
</employee>
<employee eid="2" dept="training">
<contact addInfo="info2">
<name>
<firstName>S</firstName>
<middleName int="S">S</middleName>
<lastName>W</lastName>
</name>
<address>
<street>1 St.</street>
<city>Austin</city>
<state>Texas</state>
<zipcode>22222</zipcode>
</address>
<phone>
<tel type="wk">512-3467899</tel>
<tel type="hm">512-4623356</tel>
<fax>512-3465655</fax>
</phone>
<email>s@s.ru</email>
</contact>
<hireDate>2000-03-11</hireDate>
</employee>
</employees>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="text" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//*">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(name(), " -- ")" />
<xsl:call-template name="depth" />
;
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="depth">
<xsl:param name="node" as="node()" select="." />
<xsl:value-of select="count($node/ancestor::node())" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
Output:
employees -- 1
;
title -- 2
;
employee -- 2
;
contact -- 3
;
name -- 4
;
firstName -- 5
;
middleName -- 5
;
lastName -- 5
;
address -- 4
;
street -- 5
;
city -- 5
;
state -- 5
;
zipcode -- 5
;
phone -- 4
;
tel -- 5
;
tel -- 5
;
fax -- 5
;
email -- 4
;
hireDate -- 3
;
employee -- 2
;
contact -- 3
;
name -- 4
;
firstName -- 5
;
middleName -- 5
;
lastName -- 5
;
address -- 4
;
street -- 5
;
city -- 5
;
state -- 5
;
zipcode -- 5
;
phone -- 4
;
tel -- 5
;
tel -- 5
;
fax -- 5
;
email -- 4
;
hireDate -- 3
;
if test="ancestor::chapter"
File: Data.xml
<book>
<title>title 1</title>
<chapter>
<title>chapter 1</title>
<para>line 1</para>
<para>line 2</para>
</chapter>
<chapter>
<title>title 2</title>
<para>line 3</para>
<para>line 4</para>
</chapter>
</book>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="para">
<xsl:if test="ancestor::appendix">
<p>
<font face="arial">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</font>
</p>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="ancestor::chapter">
<p>
<font face="times">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</font>
</p>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
title 1
chapter 1
<p><font face="times">line 1</font></p>
<p><font face="times">line 2</font></p>
title 2
<p><font face="times">line 3</font></p>
<p><font face="times">line 4</font></p>