I am using XSLT 1.0
I have an input message i am trying to transform. This input messages has the following redondant structure, composed of 4 types of nodes A, B, Order, Article, which are always in the same order:
A
B
Order0
Article100
A
B
Order1
Article101
A
B
Order0
Article102
...
I would like to group the nodes to produce the following output:
A
B
Order0
Article100
Article102
A
B
Order1
Article101
A
B
In the output, i don't want any duplicates of the Order
node; The nodes A
and B
should not be moved.
Here are complete XML messages.
The key for the grouping is the field Key
inside of the Order
node
Input:
<Messages>
<Message>
<A>
<Number>100</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</A>
</Message>
<Message>
<B>
<Number>100</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</B>
</Message>
<Message>
<Order>
<Key>100</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Order>
</Message>
<Message>
<Article>
<Key>78</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Article>
</Message>
<Message>
<A>
<Number>600</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</A>
</Message>
<Message>
<B>
<Number>601</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</B>
</Message>
<Message>
<Order>
<Key>101</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Order>
</Message>
<Message>
<Article>
<Key>55</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Article>
</Message>
<Message>
<A>
<Number>799</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</A>
</Message>
<Message>
<B>
<Number>798</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</B>
</Message>
<Message>
<Order>
<Key>100</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Order>
</Message>
<Message>
<Article>
<Key>32</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Article>
</Message>
</Messages>
Output:
<Messages>
<Message>
<A>
<Number>100</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</A>
</Message>
<Message>
<B>
<Number>100</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</B>
</Message>
<Message>
<Order>
<Key>100</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Order>
</Message>
<Message>
<Article>
<Key>78</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Article>
</Message>
<Message>
<Article>
<Key>32</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Article>
</Message>
<Message>
<A>
<Number>600</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</A>
</Message>
<Message>
<B>
<Number>601</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</B>
</Message>
<Message>
<Order>
<Key>101</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Order>
</Message>
<Message>
<Article>
<Key>55</Key>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</Article>
</Message>
<Message>
<A>
<Number>799</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</A>
</Message>
<Message>
<B>
<Number>798</Number>
<SomeData>somedata</SomeData>
<SomeData2>somedata</SomeData2>
</B>
</Message>
</Messages>
I was thinking about using the Muenchian grouping but without success. I am not quite sure it is what I am looking for.
This is for a Biztalk mapping, so I could also work with Biztalk mapping and functoids.
Here's one way you could look at it (I think):
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:key name="order" match="Message[Order]" use="Order/Key" />
<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Message[Order]">
<xsl:if test="count(. | key('order', Order/Key)[1]) = 1">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
<xsl:copy-of select="key('order', Order/Key)/following-sibling::Message[1]"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Message[Article]"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This is working great, thank you!
I just found out that this stylesheet doesn't work anymore when I add a namespace to the input document, even when i specify the namespace in the xsl. I found somebody with the exact same issue: oxygenxml.com/archives/xsl-list/200711/msg00376.html
Of course it doesn't - see here why: stackoverflow.com/a/34762628/3016153.