Question

XSLT available is 1.0.

I’m working on a dual-language site in an XML-based CMS (Symphony CMS), and need to replace the English version of a category name with the French version.

This is my source XML.

<data>
    <our-news-categories-for-list-fr>
        <entry id="118">
            <title-fr handle="technology">Technologie</title-fr>
        </entry>
        <entry id="117">
            <title-fr handle="healthcare">Santé</title-fr>
        </entry>
    </our-news-categories-for-list-fr>
    <our-news-article-fr>
        <entry id="100">
            <categories>
                <item id="117" handle="healthcare" section-handle="our-news-categories" section-name="Our News categories">Healthcare</item>
                <item id="118" handle="technology" section-handle="our-news-categories" section-name="Our News categories">Technology</item>
            </categories>
            <main-text-fr mode="formatted"><p>Blah blah</p></main-text-fr>
        </entry>
    </our-news-article-fr>
</data>

This is part of the XSLT that I currently have for the French version.

<xsl:template match="data">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="our-news-article-fr/entry"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="our-news-article-fr/entry">
    <xsl:if test="categories/item">
        <p class="category">In:</p>
        <ul class="category">
            <xsl:for-each select="categories/item">
                <li><a href="{/data/params/root}/{/data/params/root-page}/our-news/categorie/{@handle}/"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a></li>
            </xsl:for-each>
        </ul>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:template match>

The problem: the visible text of the anchor (<xsl:value-of select="."/>) gives the English version of the category title.

The handles of the following nodes match (all handles are in English), and so I’m thinking I should be able to match one from the other.

/data/our-news-categories-for-list-fr/entry/title-fr/@handle (value of title-fr node is French translation of category title)

/data/our-news-article-fr/entry/categories/item/@handle

I’m new to XSLT and am struggling to find how to do this.

Many thanks.

Answer 1

Add <xsl:key name="k1" match="our-news-categories-for-list-fr/entry" use="@id"/> as a child of your XSLT stylesheet element. Then use e.g. <li><a href="{/data/params/root}/{/data/params/root-page}/our-news/categorie/{@handle}/"><xsl:value-of select="key('k1', @id)/title-fr"/></a></li>.