I have the following XSL to transform a bunch of XML files from one format to another. The transformation is working fine though I have two issues unresolved so far:
1) First when transforming the files I need to adjust my parameter in the style sheet to target only files that have names longer than 7 characters;
2) Secondly, I need to be able to transform all the files while preserving the folder structure of the source files. I was wondering if there is way to preserve the same folder structure like from the source folder. All the files are located in folders named based on the alphabet like : A, B, C, D, F .... So I need to transform all files in folder A and put them in a new folder named A. The files are also named by alphabetical order.
Here is my style sheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"
xmlns:ditaarch="http://dita.oasis-open.org/architecture/2005/">
<!-- This adds DOCTYPE declaration -->
<xsl:output method="xml" doctype-public="-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary//EN"
doctype-system="glossary.dtd" omit-xml-declaration="no" indent="yes"/>
<!-- The below line ensures that all empty space and carriage returns are removed from the title element producing proper file names -->
<xsl:strip-space elements="title"/>
<xsl:param name="files" select="collection('../DITA/B/?select=*.dita;recurse=yes')"/>
<!-- <xsl:variable name="filename" select="concat($files,position(),'topic')" />-->
<xsl:template match="node()">
<xsl:copy copy-namespaces="no">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="$files//topic">
<xsl:if test="string-length(files) > 10">
<!-- not working, the purpose is to drop all the files whose name length is less than two letters -->
<xsl:value-of select="text()" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:result-document href="outputDITANEW/B/{title/text()|title/b/text()}.dita">
<glossentry id="{concat('test', generate-id())}">
<glossterm id="{concat('test_title', generate-id())}">
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</glossterm>
<glossdef>
<xsl:for-each select="body">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:for-each>
</glossdef>
</glossentry>
</xsl:result-document>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks.
(a) the select=*.dita is actually a regular expression masquerading as a glob, and you should be able to use something like select=[A-Za-z0-9]{7,}.dita to be more selective.
(b) the function document-uri() applied to a file returns the URI of the input file if known, and from this you should be able to construct the require output file name.