Create Bulleted list using XSL

GodofSmallThings · Jun 28, 2003

Hello,

Having difficulty rendering bulleted list using XSL. Here is
a sample of the code.

<INVENTORY>
<ID>000001</ID>
<ITEM>CAMERA</ITEM>
<DESCRIPTION>
WAVEFRONT SENSOR
SEGMENT PHASING
ROTATOR
PARTICLE DETECTOR
</DESCRIPTION>

Not sure how to implement --

<xsl:for-each select="//INVENTORY/???"

Any ideas?? Thanks for the help in advance.

GodofSmallThings

mulligh · Jun 30, 2003

How do you want the output to look? Which elements should be bulleted?

GodofSmallThings · Jun 30, 2003

Mulligh,

For every item in Inventory. I want the items under
DESCRIPTION to render as a square bullete. (The above
sample code shows only one item in inventory).

- GodofSmallThings.

mulligh · Jul 1, 2003

Ah, then you have a problem because your XML file is too flat. All of the <ITEM> and <DESCRIPTION> elements are siblings of each other (they are all at the same level hierarchically). You need to add more levels to your XML source so that the style sheet can tell one item from another.

The simplest way to take care of this is to wrap each item in another element. For instance, note each item is wrapped in an <ITEMS> element:

<INVENTORY>
<ITEMS>
<ID>000001</ID>
<ITEM>CAMERA</ITEM>
<DESCRIPTION>
WAVEFRONT SENSOR
SEGMENT PHASING
ROTATOR
PARTICLE DETECTOR
</DESCRIPTION>
</ITEMS>
...
</INVENTORY>

Once you do this, this style sheet will do what you want:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

version="1.0">
<xsl

utput method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="//ITEMS">
<xsl:apply-templates select="ITEM"/>
<ul type="square">
<xsl:for-each select="DESCRIPTION/P">
<li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

GodofSmallThings · Jul 1, 2003

Beautiful...

Thanks for clearly explaining the process and taking time
to write out the code! Excellent work!!

GodofSmallThings

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