Wolfhart,

Thank you so much for looking at this. That worked perfectly for what
I need. Thanks to everyone that took a look.

--Meghan

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Wolfhart Totschnig
<wolfhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From what I can see, you need to replace
>
> <xsl:copy-of select="DISS_submission/DISS_description[@type='masters']"/>
>
> with
>
> <xsl:copy-of select="DISS_submission[DISS_description/@type='masters']"/>
>
>
> Wolfhart
>
>
> Meghan Finch wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to the listserv and was hoping that I could find some help. I
>> am working on a transformation that will take xml that describes
>> theses and dissertations and produce two different xml outputs, one
>> with all of the theses and the other with all of the dissertations.
>> This is an example of a single thesis/dissertation xml record:
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <DISS_submission publishing_option="0" embargo_code="0"
>> third_party_search="Y" third_party_sales="N">
>>   <DISS_authorship>
>>       <DISS_author type="primary">
>>           <DISS_name>
>>               <DISS_surname></DISS_surname>
>>               <DISS_fname></DISS_fname>
>>               <DISS_middle/>
>>               <DISS_suffix/>
>>               <DISS_affiliation></DISS_affiliation>
>>           </DISS_name>
>>           <DISS_contact type="current">
>>               <DISS_contact_effdt></DISS_contact_effdt>
>>               <DISS_address>
>>                   <DISS_addrline></DISS_addrline>
>>                   <DISS_addrline></DISS_addrline>
>>                   <DISS_city></DISS_city>
>>                   <DISS_st></DISS_st>
>>                   <DISS_pcode></DISS_pcode>
>>                   <DISS_country></DISS_country>
>>               </DISS_address>
>>               <DISS_email></DISS_email>
>>           </DISS_contact>
>>           <DISS_contact type="future">
>>               <DISS_contact_effdt></DISS_contact_effdt>
>>               <DISS_address>
>>                   <DISS_addrline></DISS_addrline>
>>                   <DISS_addrline></DISS_addrline>
>>                   <DISS_city></DISS_city>
>>                   <DISS_st></DISS_st>
>>                   <DISS_pcode></DISS_pcode>
>>                   <DISS_country></DISS_country>
>>               </DISS_address>
>>               <DISS_email></DISS_email>
>>           </DISS_contact>
>>           <DISS_citizenship></DISS_citizenship>
>>       </DISS_author>
>>   </DISS_authorship>
>>   <DISS_description page_count="115" type="doctoral"
>> external_id="http://id.pdf" apply_for_copyright="no">
>>       <DISS_title></DISS_title>
>>       <DISS_dates>
>>           <DISS_comp_date></DISS_comp_date>
>>           <DISS_accept_date></DISS_accept_date>
>>       </DISS_dates>
>>       <DISS_degree></DISS_degree>
>>       <DISS_institution>
>>           <DISS_inst_code></DISS_inst_code>
>>           <DISS_inst_name></DISS_inst_name>
>>           <DISS_inst_contact></DISS_inst_contact>
>>           <DISS_processing_code></DISS_processing_code>
>>       </DISS_institution>
>>       <DISS_advisor>
>>           <DISS_name>
>>               <DISS_surname></DISS_surname>
>>               <DISS_fname></DISS_fname>
>>               <DISS_middle></DISS_middle>
>>           </DISS_name>
>>       </DISS_advisor>
>>       <DISS_cmte_member>
>>           <DISS_name>
>>               <DISS_surname></DISS_surname>
>>               <DISS_fname></DISS_fname>
>>               <DISS_middle/>
>>               <DISS_suffix/>
>>               <DISS_affiliation/>
>>           </DISS_name>
>>       </DISS_cmte_member>
>>       <DISS_cmte_member>
>>           <DISS_name>
>>               <DISS_surname></DISS_surname>
>>               <DISS_fname></DISS_fname>
>>               <DISS_middle/>
>>               <DISS_suffix/>
>>               <DISS_affiliation/>
>>           </DISS_name>
>>       </DISS_cmte_member>
>>       <DISS_cmte_member>
>>           <DISS_name>
>>               <DISS_surname></DISS_surname>
>>               <DISS_fname></DISS_fname>
>>               <DISS_middle/>
>>               <DISS_suffix/>
>>               <DISS_affiliation/>
>>           </DISS_name>
>>       </DISS_cmte_member>
>>       <DISS_categorization>
>>           <DISS_category>
>>               <DISS_cat_code></DISS_cat_code>
>>               <DISS_cat_desc></DISS_cat_desc>
>>           </DISS_category>
>>           <DISS_keyword/>
>>           <DISS_language></DISS_language>
>>       </DISS_categorization>
>>   </DISS_description>
>>   <DISS_content>
>>       <DISS_abstract>
>>           <DISS_para></DISS_para>
>>       </DISS_abstract>
>>       <DISS_binary type="PDF"></DISS_binary>
>>   </DISS_content>
>>   <DISS_restriction/>
>> </DISS_submission>
>>
>> There are 3 elements inside DISS_submission that are important:
>> DISS_authorship, DISS_description, and DISS_content. Here is the xsl
>> that Ive been trying so far:
>>
>> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>>   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>>   xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
>>   <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
>>
>> <xsl:template match="xml">
>>   <xsl:result-document href="masters.xml">
>>
>>       <xsl:if test="DISS_submission/DISS_description[@type='masters']">
>>           <xsl:copy-of
>> select="DISS_submission/DISS_description[@type='masters']"/>
>>       </xsl:if>
>>
>>   </xsl:result-document>
>>   <xsl:result-document href="doctoral.xml">
>>
>>       <xsl:if test="DISS_submission/DISS_description[@type='doctoral']">
>>        <xsl:copy-of
>> select="DISS_submission/DISS_description[@type='doctoral']"/>
>>       </xsl:if>
>>
>>   </xsl:result-document>
>>   </xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>
>>
>> This does actually create two outputs, one for masters and one for
>> theses. However, it only copies the DISS_description element and its
>> children. I want the entire DISS_submission to be copied. Ive tried
>> replacing xsl:copy-of to just DISS_submission but that just creates
>> two new documents with all of the DISS_submission s, not a sort
>> between masters and doctoral.
>>
>> Im fairly new to xsl and not really a programmer, so forgive me
>> please for any obvious oversights here. XPATH also tends to give me a
>> lot of difficulty, so it could be something simple in there to fix.
>> I'm using Saxon to complete the transform. Thank you for the help and
>> feedback.
>>
>> --Meghan Finch