Lists in XML 1

[kennyaidan]

Hi, I am just beginning to learn how to use xml and i have the following problem. I have a list of web links similar to the following
<a href=&quot;

http://www.google.com&quot;>Good

Search Engine</a><br></br>
<a href=&quot;

http://www.yahoo.com&quot;>Yahoo</a><br></br>

<a href=&quot;

http://www.tek-tips.com&quot;>XML

Forum</a>

I have entered this list into a xml file similar to the following
<link>
<helpful>

<a href=&quot;

http://www.google.com&quot;>Good

Search Engine</a><br></br>
<a href=&quot;

http://www.yahoo.com&quot;>Yahoo

Engine</a><br></br>
<a href=&quot;

http://www.tek-tips.com&quot;>XML

Forum</a>

</helpful>
</link>

The part of my stylesheet concerned with the helpful tag is

<font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;><xsl:value-of select=&quot;helpful&quot;/>
</font>

when i run this file using my stylesheet, all that is outputted is the following

Good Search EngineYahoo EngineXml Forum

Is it possible to send a list minus the html tags and then in the stylesheet move through the list and place html tags to each member of the list. the output i would like would be each memebr of the list in a <a href> teg followed by the next member in another <a href> tag
Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks
Aidan

 

[Tarwn]

So you mean have something along the lines of:

<link>
	<helpful>
		<alink>
			<address>
				[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com[/URL]
			</address>
			<text>
				Good Search Engine
			</text>
		</alink>
		<alink>
			<address>
				[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.yahoo.com[/URL]
			</address>
			<text>
				Yahoo Engine
			</text>
		</alink>
		<alink>
			<address>
				[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.tek-tips.com[/URL]
			</address>
			<text>
				XML Forum
			</text>
		</alink>
	</helpful>
</link>

And then outputting those entries as links using an XSL?

Altering the xsl could do this like so:

<font face=&quot;Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;2&quot;>
<xsl:for-each select=&quot;helpful/alink&quot;>
   <xsl:element name=&quot;a&quot;>
      <xsl:attribute name=&quot;href&quot;><xsl:value-of select=&quot;address&quot; /></xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:value-of select=&quot;text&quot; /></xsl:element>
   </xsl:for-each>
</font>

My XSL is rusty, but that should create the links your looking for based on the XML tidbit I created above.

-Tarwn

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