choosing element with no attribute

[anitawa]

Hi,

Im in a dilemma and need some help.
I have an xml like this:

<animal species="dog">
<color>brown</color>
</animal>
<animal species="cat">
<color>black</color>
</animal>
<animal>
<color>no color</color>
</animal>

I want to be able to select the color with no attribute. Something
like this:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./@species='dog'">
<value-of select=".[@species='dog']//color"/>
</xsl>
<xsl:when test="./@species='cat'">
<value-of select=".[@species='cat']//color"/>
</xsl>
....
....
</xsl:choose>

How would i get the color element under <animal> with no attribute??

 

[Richard Tobin]

I want to be able to select the color with no attribute. Something
like this:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./@species='dog'">

You can just write "@species='dog'"

<value-of select=".[@species='dog']//color"/>

You already know that . has @species = 'dog', so you can just write
".//color" here. Or if, as in your example, <color> is the immediate

</xsl>
<xsl:when test="./@species='cat'">
<value-of select=".[@species='cat']//color"/>
</xsl>
....
....
</xsl:choose>

How would i get the color element under <animal> with no attribute??

<xsl:when test="not(@species)">
<value-of select=".//color"/>

-- Richard

 

[David Carlisle]

I want to be able to select the color with no attribute. Something
like this:
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="./@species='dog'">

the ./ is doing nothing there: you could do
@species='dog'

<value-of select=".[@species='dog']//color"/>

..[ is a syntax error in XSLT1 (it's allowed in xpath2) you just want
select="color" (you must already be on the animal element for teh
attribute test to work so you know color is the child)

</xsl>
<xsl:when test="./@species='cat'">
<value-of select=".[@species='cat']//color"/>

as above this is a syntax error in xslt1

</xsl>
....
....
</xsl:choose>

How would i get the color element under <animal> with no attribute??

select="animal[not(@*)]/color"

If you are using xslt2 then what I think you want is to replace the
xsl:choose by

<xsl:value-of
select="(animal[@species='dog'],animal[@species='cat'],animal)[1]/color"/>

ie select the color of the dog if there is one else the cat else any
other animal.