Slugify an Acronym List with XSLT
Have a requirement to create slugs from XML content.
I was navigating to create Slugs from Titles and found the below ones listed.
- Creating Slugs from Titles?
- Java code/library for generating slugs (for use in pretty URLs)
- and similar others.
I was looking for perfect solution for an XSL solution, which provides better slugifies like a PHP solution: http://blog.tersmitten.nl/slugify and also takes care开发者_高级运维 of duplicates in the file system.
Input XML
<table>
<tr>
<td>2D</td>
<td>Two Dimension</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A/C</td>
<td>Account</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>A/C</td>
<td>Air Condition</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>L&T</td>
<td>Larsen & Toubro</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>M + [ # ]</td>
<td>Modified Algo</td>
</tr>
</table>
Expected Output
file: 2d.txt
------------
2D
Two Dimension
file: a-c.txt
-------------
A/C
Account
file: a-c-2.txt
---------------
A/C
Air Condition
file: l-t.txt
-------------
L&T
Larsen & Turbo
file: m.txt (NOT m-.txt)
-------------
M + [ # ]
Modified Algo
Tried XSL
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet extension-element-prefixes="redirect" version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:redirect="http://xml.apache.org/xalan/redirect">
<xsl:output method="text" version="1.0" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="table/tr">
<!-- The logic for variable value requires attention!! -->
<xsl:variable name="acronym" select="translate(td[1], 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz')" />
<xsl:variable name="tmpFilename" select="concat('C:/Temp/', $acronym, '.txt')" />
<xsl:variable name="filename">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="document($tmpFilename)">
<!-- Require logic to handle duplicate file existence. -->
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$filename" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<redirect:write select="$filename">
<xsl:value-of select="td[1]" />
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="td[2]" />
</redirect:write>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Note: The file name should include only the OS supported characters. The rest should be converted to '-'. Also, there shouldn't be leading and trailing '-' characters (e.g. the last output file as mentioned above).
If you're looking for a Java based solution, I have an online generator which you can use. If you look in the Javascript, you'll find the POST request that you need to make - just don't hammer it please ;)
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