Question

I am new to xsl transformations and I have a question.
I am looping through an xml like this:

 <PO>
<Items>
  <Item>
     <Price>2</Price>
     <Quantity>5</Quantity>
  </Item>
  <Item>
     <Price>3</Price>
     <Quantity>2</Quantity>
  </Item>    
 </Items>
 <QuantityTotal></QuantityTotal>
 </PO>

Now I want to insert a value in the QuantityTotal node:
The value is the sum of price*quantity of all items, in this case (2*5)+(3*2) = 16
How can I do this, I tried it with a loop and variables, but variables are immutable so I don’t know how I can achieve this.

Thx for your help

Answer 1

Here is an XSLT solution — no extension functions required:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
     <xsl:copy>
       <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
     </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="QuantityTotal">
  <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:call-template name="sumProducts">
     <xsl:with-param name="pNodes" select="../Items/Item"/>
   </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:copy>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template name="sumProducts">
  <xsl:param name="pNodes"/>
  <xsl:param name="pSum" select="0"/>
  <xsl:param name="pEname1" select="'Price'"/>
  <xsl:param name="pEname2" select="'Quantity'"/>

  <xsl:choose>
   <xsl:when test="not($pNodes)">
    <xsl:value-of select="$pSum"/>
   </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
    <xsl:call-template name="sumProducts">
      <xsl:with-param name="pNodes" select=
      "$pNodes[position() > 1]"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="pSum" select=
      "$pSum
      +
       $pNodes[1]/*[name()=$pEname1]
      *
       $pNodes[1]/*[name()=$pEname2]
       "/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:

<PO>
    <Items>
        <Item>
            <Price>2</Price>
            <Quantity>5</Quantity>
        </Item>
        <Item>
            <Price>3</Price>
            <Quantity>2</Quantity>
        </Item>
    </Items>
    <QuantityTotal></QuantityTotal>
</PO>

the wanted result is produced:

<PO>
   <Items>
      <Item>
         <Price>2</Price>
         <Quantity>5</Quantity>
      </Item>
      <Item>
         <Price>3</Price>
         <Quantity>2</Quantity>
      </Item>
   </Items>
   <QuantityTotal>16</QuantityTotal>
</PO>