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Find an Element by an attribute of another Element

Here is an XSL snippet showing how to look-up one element somewhere else in the document based on an attribute of the current element. E.g. suppose you have two sections in the XML, one holding author details and a separate one holding books, and you want to get the author details from the author name attribute of the book.

<xsl:template name="authordetail" >
<xsl:param name="authname" />
<xsl:comment> Looking for wire <xsl:value-of select="$refid"/> </xsl:comment>
<xsl:for-each select="/authors/author[@name=$authname]" >
<xsl:element name='p'  >
<!-- get the author's country of residence -->
<xsl:value-of select="@country"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="books" priority="1">

...

<!-- this puts the wirename and id at the start -->
<xsl:call-template name="authordetail">
<xsl:with-param name="authname" select="@authorname" />
</xsl:call-template>

...

<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

See BatchUpdateOfBC for one XSL example;

Here's XSL for generating a test plan from a Canoo Webtest XML file

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="webtest">
<h4>Tests for <xsl:value-of select="@name"/></h4>
<table>
<tr><td><b>Type</b></td>
<td><b>Action</b></td>
<td><b>Value</b></td>
<td><b>Confirm</b></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep" priority="1">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of  select="name()"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of  select="@test"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/clickButton" priority="1">
<tr><td>Select/Navigate</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/clickLink" priority="1">
<tr><td>Select/Navigate</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/verifyText" priority="1">
<tr><td></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/> Text exists?</td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@text"/></b></td>
<td>Yes/No</td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/verifyInputField" priority="1">
<tr><td></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/> Text exists?</td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@text"/></b></td>
<td>Yes/No</td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/setInputField" priority="1">
<tr><td>Set </td>
<td><xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@description">
<xsl:value-of select="@description"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@forLabel">
<xsl:value-of select="@forLabel"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@htmlid">
the field with ID <xsl:value-of select="@htmlid"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
the field
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose> to the value </td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@value"/></b></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/setSelectField" priority="1">
<tr><td>Select Value </td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/> to the value </td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@value"/></b></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/expectDialog" priority="1">
<tr><td></td>
<td>Dialog for <b><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></b> should be displayed</td>
<td></td>
<td>Yes/No</td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/*" priority="-1">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of  select="name()"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/not/*" priority="-1">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of  select="name()"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep" priority="1">
<tr><td> </td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@name"/><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></b></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/*" priority="-1">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of  select="name()"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/clickButton" priority="1">
<tr><td>Select/Navigate</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/clickLink" priority="1">
<tr><td>Select/Navigate</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/verifyText" priority="1">
<tr><td></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/> Text exists?</td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@text"/></b></td>
<td>Yes/No</td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/verifyInputField" priority="1">
<tr><td></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/> Text exists?</td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@text"/></b></td>
<td>Yes/No</td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/setInputField" priority="1">
<tr><td>Set </td>
<td><xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@description">
<xsl:value-of select="@description"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@forLabel">
<xsl:value-of select="@forLabel"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="@htmlid">
the field with ID <xsl:value-of select="@htmlid"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
the field
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose> to the value </td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@value"/></b></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/setSelectField" priority="1">
<tr><td>Select Value </td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/> to the value </td>
<td><b><xsl:value-of select="@value"/></b></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/expectDialog" priority="1">
<tr><td></td>
<td>Dialog for <b><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></b> should be displayed</td>
<td></td>
<td>Yes/No</td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/storeElementAttribute" priority="1">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/ifStep/not/*" priority="-1">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of  select="name()"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="webtest/steps/not/*" priority="-1">
<tr><td><xsl:value-of  select="name()"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@description"/></td></tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>