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9.0

Selectively transforming bits of an excel file exported to xml

Asked by irajani in Extensible Markup Language (XML), Extensible HTML (XHTML)

Tags: xsl

Hi,

I have a pricelist exported to XML which I now want to convert into a CSV file. Unfortunately, a few of my suppliers format their pricelists in a non-standard manner making a direct export to CSV non-feasible.

I am constructing an XSL file for each such supplier to pick the meaningful values I need and write to a CSV file. Here is what I have so far:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
<xsl:template match="/">
SupplierProductId,CostPrice,Summary
  <xsl:template match="//Worksheet[normalize-space(@ss:Name)='AMD Boards']/Row">
   ****what goes here?****
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

As you can see I haven't got very far. This is my first encounter with xsl and xpath and it seems pretty nifty.

Here is the logic I want to encapsulate:

- find the worksheet with name "AMD Boards" and find all rows in which cells b, c and e are not equal to null or the empty string - if this is the case i also need to get cell e of the following row

here is a snippet of the xml just to put all of this into context (no pun intended):

<Worksheet ss:Name=" AMD Boards">
  <Table ss:ExpandedColumnCount="15" ss:ExpandedRowCount="61" x:FullColumns="1"
   x:FullRows="1" ss:StyleID="s331" ss:DefaultRowHeight="11.25">
   <Column ss:StyleID="s331" ss:AutoFitWidth="0" ss:Width="21"/>
   <Column ss:StyleID="s331" ss:AutoFitWidth="0" ss:Width="68.25"/>
   <Column ss:StyleID="s607" ss:AutoFitWidth="0"/>
   <Column ss:Index="5" ss:StyleID="s331" ss:AutoFitWidth="0" ss:Width="459"/>
   <Column ss:Index="7" ss:StyleID="s331" ss:AutoFitWidth="0" ss:Width="360"/>
   <Row ss:StyleID="s302">
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s379"><Data ss:Type="String">Gigabyte-AMD Chipset</Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s332"><Data ss:Type="String">GIGABYTE  MOTHERBOARDS - AMD CHIPSET - 3 YEAR FULL WARRANTY</Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s593"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s333"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s334"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s335"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s335"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s309"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
   </Row>
   <Row ss:StyleID="s302">
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s336"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s337"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s594"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s338"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s309"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
   </Row>
   <Row ss:StyleID="s302">
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s336"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s337"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s594"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s338"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s309"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
   </Row>
   <Row ss:AutoFitHeight="0" ss:Height="2.25" ss:StyleID="s302">
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s336"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s337"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s594"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s338"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s328"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s309"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
   </Row>
   <Row ss:StyleID="s306">
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s344"><ss:Data ss:Type="String"
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><B><I><U><Font html:Color="#800080">AMD </Font><Font
          html:Color="#0000FF">Socket A</Font><Font html:Color="#800080"> Platform: Integrated and Discrete</Font></U></I></B></ss:Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s356"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s595"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s357"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s358"/>
    <Cell ss:Index="7" ss:StyleID="s307"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s307"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s308"><Data ss:Type="String"> </Data></Cell>
   </Row>
   <Row ss:StyleID="s302"> ****This is the first row that needs to be checked for the above logic ****
    <Cell ss:Index="2" ss:StyleID="s314"><Data ss:Type="String">7VT600P-RZ</Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s596"><Data ss:Type="Number">69</Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s339"><Data ss:Type="String">DDR400</Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s319"><ss:Data ss:Type="String"
      xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><B><Font html:Color="#0000FF">GIGABYTE® </Font></B><Font>VIA-KT600+8237 </Font><B><U><Font
         html:Color="#FF0000">AMD K7 FSB400 integrated MB</Font></U></B><Font
       html:Color="#FF0000"> </Font><Font>-,AC97-6CH sound, VIA6103L 10/100Lan </Font></ss:Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s304"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s304"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s313"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s301"/>
   </Row>
   <Row ss:Height="12" ss:StyleID="s302">
    <Cell ss:Index="2" ss:StyleID="s371"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s393"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s375"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"><Data ss:Type="String">1 x AGP(8x), 3 x DDR400,2x ATA133 + 2 x PATA,5 x PCI, 6 x USB 1.1 (4 by cables), Raid, ATC Form Factor</Data></Cell>
***The value in the preceding <cell> tag should really be in the corresponding cell in the preceding row****
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s362"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s362"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s376"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"><Data ss:Type="String"> </Data></Cell>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"/>
    <Cell ss:StyleID="s359"/>
   </Row>

I have commented some sections so you can see what I am talking about...

In any case, if you can help with this problem I will be very grateful.
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