Can't see anything wrong with the code, I think you need to supply a
reproducible case where it doesn't work.

Your xsl:choose could be replaced by the rather more concise:

<xsl:sequence select="($sectionTitleMap/map/item[longtitle =
$sectionBaseTitle]/shorttitle, $sectionBaseTitle)[1]"/>

and if the lookup list is lengthy you could improve performance using keys
(though Saxon-SA will do this for you automatically).

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 20 June 2007 19:15
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Looking Not Working for No Obvious Reason
> 
> Within my style sheet I need to be able to map between pairs 
> of strings (in this case, long and short titles).
> 
> I've tried to implement this by using an internal 
> document-node() variable that defines the mapping and then 
> using a function to do lookups against the map.
> 
> The map looks like this (declared as a stylesheet-scope variable):
> 
>    <xsl:variable name="sectionTitleMap" as="document-node()">
>      <xsl:document>
>      <map>
>        <item>
>          <shorttitle>Background</shorttitle>
>          <longtitle>Overview and Background</longtitle>
>        </item>
>        <item>
>          <shorttitle>Scope</shorttitle>
>          <longtitle>Scope and Scope Exceptions</longtitle>
>        </item>
>        <item>
>          <shorttitle>Glossary</shorttitle>
>          <longtitle>Topical Definitions - Glossary</longtitle>
>        </item>
>       </map>
>     </xsl:document>
>    <xsl:variable>
> 
> I then have this function to do lookups:
> 
>    <xsl:function
>      name="func:getShortTitleForSection" as="xs:string">
>      <xsl:param
>        as="xs:string"
>        name="sectionBaseTitle"/>
>      <xsl:choose>
>        <xsl:when test="count($sectionTitleMap//longtitle[. =
> $sectionBaseTitle]) = 1">
>          <xsl:sequence 
> select="$sectionTitleMap//item[longtitle[. = 
> $sectionBaseTitle]]/shorttitle"/>
>        </xsl:when>
>        <xsl:otherwise>
>          <xsl:sequence select="$sectionBaseTitle"/>
>        </xsl:otherwise>
>      </xsl:choose>
> 
>    </xsl:function>
> 
> 
> As far as I can see this should just work, assuming my input 
> parameter occurs in the table.
> 
> However, what I'm getting is that this works as expected for 
> *some* input strings but not for others, where I've verified 
> that the input strings match the values in the map.
> 
> I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure out what 
> it might be--the fact that some input values work and others 
> don't is odd.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what might be going wrong or what I can 
> do to track down the bug? I've done things like copied a 
> mapping target from my input document into the map just to be 
> 100% sure the string is the same, but I still get the 
> failure, so it doesn't appear to be something subtle like 
> invisible characters in the input or some such (which I 
> wouldn't expect in this case, but you never know).
> 
> The real mapping is small enough I could rewrite the code to 
> use choose/when for the mappings but this seemed like the 
> most efficient way to do a two-way mapping in XSLT.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eliot
> 
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