looping from 1 to x

Sarky78 · Nov 17, 2005

Hi all,

I thought that this was going to be easy, but as with everything I try with XSLT I can't find a way of doing this.

I want to be able to provide a drop down list of years from 1950 to the current year. I thought i'd be able to do a loop from one attribute to another one, but i can't seem to find the correct syntax, or find anything on here.

Does anyone have an idea of how to do this?
Does anyone know of a good example site for learning xslt?

TIA

Tony

JontyMC · Nov 18, 2005

You can use recursion:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">[/URL]
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Test</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <select name="year">
          <xsl:call-template name="years">
            <xsl:with-param name="year" select="1950"/>
          </xsl:call-template>
        </select>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template name="years">
    <xsl:param name="year"/>
    <option value="{$year}">
      <xsl:value-of select="$year"/>
    </option>
    <xsl:if test="$year &lt; 2005">
      <xsl:call-template name="years">
        <xsl:with-param name="year" select="$year + 1"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Jon

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looping from 1 to x

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