add default xml in stylesheet??

mgriffith · Oct 19, 2001

i have a stylesheet that renders my different xml menus. my xml menus are set up like this
<navmenu>
<menu>menu1
<menuitem href="blah.htm">whatever</menuitem>
<menuitem href="blah.htm">whatever</menuitem>
<menuitem href="blah.htm">whatever</menuitem>
</menu>
<menu>menu2
<menuitem href="blah.htm">whatever</menuitem>
<menuitem href="blah.htm">whatever</menuitem>
<menuitem href="blah.htm">whatever</menuitem>
</menu>
</navmenu>

is there a way to include some default menus and menuitems in my stylesheet so that they get parsed ahead of the xml and then appear on top, or would i have to include the global stuff in each xml file?

JJR · Oct 19, 2001

Hi mgriffith,

There's no reason to add the general stuff in your xml. You could something like this:

Code:

<?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;  encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?>
<xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot; xmlns:xsl=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot;[/URL] xmlns:fo=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&quot;>[/URL]

  <xsl:template match=&quot;/&quot;>
    <xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;navmenu&quot;/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match=&quot;navmenu&quot;>
    <!-- put the global stuff here, I've put some html
    here, you can put your global menu html or whatever
    here -->

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Testpage</title>
    </head>
    <body>
       <xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;menu&quot;/>
    </body>     
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match=&quot;menu&quot;>
    <!-- Put the html and xsl codes for each menu node in 
    your xml data here -->
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Good luck!!

Jordi Reineman

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add default xml in stylesheet??

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