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finding maximum depth of chapter


everyone . In this case ,I want to conpute the maxximun depth of the chapter.For instance, a book without chapters has height 0 . A book only has chapters with no sections ,the height should be 1.The folowing is xml:

<book title="D">
<author>
  <name>abc</name>
</author>

<chapter title="chapter1">
  <section title="section1.1"/>
  <section title="section1.2">
    <section title="section1.2.1"/>
<section title="section1.2.2"/>
  </section>
  <section title="section1.3">
<section title="section1.3.1"/>
  </section>
</chapter>

<chapter title="chapter2"/>

</book>

By the way ,I used saxon. I want to try to use matching templates only.In this case ,the output is text ,and the result is

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This is my XSL for computing each note's depth? Is it right?And then how can out put the maximum of the curren by call a template named max??

<xsl:transform version="2.0"
           xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
           xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="book"/>
    <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="book">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="chapter">
        <xsl:with-param name ="depth" select ="1"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="chapter|section">
    <xsl:param name="depth"  as="item()*"/>
    <xsl:variable name ="current" select ="$depth"/>
    <xsl:sequence select ="$depth"/>
    <xsl:if test ="not(empty(section))">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="section">
            <xsl:with-param name="depth" select="$depth+1"/>
        </xsl:apply-templates>

    </xsl:if>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:transform >

Solution

  • And here is your solution -- corrected:

    <xsl:transform version="2.0"
     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
     <xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>
    
     <xsl:template match="/">
      <xsl:variable name="vDepths" as="xs:integer*">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="book"/>
      </xsl:variable>
    
      <xsl:sequence select="max($vDepths)"/>
     </xsl:template>
    
     <xsl:template match="book" as="xs:integer*">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="chapter">
       <xsl:with-param name ="depth" select ="1"/>
      </xsl:apply-templates>
     </xsl:template>
    
     <xsl:template match="chapter|section" as="xs:integer*">
      <xsl:param name="depth"  as="xs:integer"/>
      <xsl:variable name ="current" select ="$depth"/>
    
      <xsl:sequence select ="$depth"/>
      <xsl:if test ="not(empty(section))">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="section">
        <xsl:with-param name="depth" select="$depth+1"/>
       </xsl:apply-templates>
      </xsl:if>
     </xsl:template>
    </xsl:transform >