Question

I am working on the following xml file:

<relational:BaseTable name="Table1">
    <columns name="Column1" Type="Number" </columns>
    <columns name="Column2" Type="Date" </columns>
 ....

I want create a CSV file like this

Table1, Column1, Number
Table1, Column1, Date
Table2, ...

I have figured out how to loop through the xml and format the output as csv. What the code below is missing is a way to repeat the name of the tables at the start of each line. I cannot figure out how to reference the “name” attribute of the parent (relational:BaseTable) tag.

<xsl:for-each select="relational:BaseTable">
   <xsl:for-each select="columns">
      <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>,<xsl:value-of select="@type"/>
      <xsl:text>&#10;</xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>

Thanks

Answer 1

To access the BaseTable‘s @name attribute, you just need to move up the hiearchy a bit:

<xsl:value-of select="../@name"/>,<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>,<xsl:value-of select="@type"/>

Note that you would need to do this even if the attribute names weren’t the same, since the current reference context is a columns element.

I would also suggest simplifying the above line into a single value-of:

<xsl:value-of select="concat(../@name, ',', @name, ',', @type)"/>