[Haskell-cafe] Haskell and XML, need some tips from practioners

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Günther Schmidt
> 
> Anyway through a very, very tedious process of xslt-transformations I 
> finally have the XML document I need.
> 
> But now I need to amend the attributes of some elements with 
> looked up 
> values from the outside, the lookup-key is a particular 
> attribute value 
> of the nodes. This I cannot do through xslt processing as the 
> information needed is not within the xml document.


Not the answer you were looking for, but...

Is the lookup table in another XML document? If so then you might well be able to use the document() function, if your xslt processor supports it e.g.

  <xsl:value-of select="document($lookup-file)/ROWSET/ROW/FUND/FUND_ROW[FND_ID=$fnd-id]/ISIN_CODE"/>

That said, if you can, use Haskell to do all the transformations i.e. avoid xslt altogether. I despise xslt.

Alistair
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