I am currently using lxml for XSLT transformation in python. After transformation I have to write the content to different files. For better understanding my code is here as follows:
##function to create a new file and write the result into the file
def new_file(a,b):
full_path = 'path of teh folder to create the file'+a
file_new = open(full_path, 'w')
file_new.write(b)
if xmlRoot.xpath('//slide[@nav_lvl_1="x" and @nav_lvl_2="y"]'):
##xpath to get the all the selected nodes of the attributes x and y
slide_list = xmlRoot.xpath('//slide[@nav_lvl_1="x" and @nav_lvl_2="y"]')
##loop against the obtained list of node element
for each_slide in slide_list:
xslRoot = etree.parse('path of xsl_file')
transform = etree.XSLT(xslRoot)
newdom = transform(xmlRoot)
file_name = ('slide'+each_slide.get('page_number')+'.xml')
result = etree.tostring(newdom, pretty_print=True)
print etree.tostring(newdom, pretty_print=True)
new_file(file_name , result)
The following code works absolutely fine but, when I call the function to create the file and write the result into it, it writes the whole result into the file instead of theloop part of the result.
For example: If i have five node elements in slide_list
then, the file xslRoot
gets transformed five times for different values. And for each transform I have to write the result in five different files. When I run this code I have all five transformed results in all five files that is created, where i need only one result per file.
What is the mistake i have done. NOt able to figure out. any suggestions?
input Xml would be :
- <slide add_info="Merchandising" name="slide8.xml" nav_lvl_1="x" nav_lvl_2="y" page_number="8">
and ....
- <slide add_info="Merchandising" name="slide8.xml" nav_lvl_1="x" nav_lvl_2="y" page_number="9">
and ...
- <slide add_info="Merchandising" name="slide8.xml" nav_lvl_1="x" nav_lvl_2="y" page_number="10">
and ...
- <slide add_info="Merchandising" name="slide8.xml" nav_lvl_1="x" nav_lvl_2="y" page_number="11">
and so on...