newb question - XML + XSL not displaying!

rogue8649 · Aug 29, 2001

OK, I am rather new to XML, but I have very extensive knowledge of CSS, HTML, CF, etc...IOW, new to XML, not the environment. Just clarifying

I am working on a very simple sheet that will display static info, and for some reason I can't get it to work correctly. Would someone please tell me if it's ME or the lack of support in IE 5.5 or what. Thank you very much!!!

______________________style.xsl___________________
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"

xmlns:html='

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'>

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Rgallery">
<b class="banner"><xsl:value-of select="Name"/></b>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Rgallery/Section/Links">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="html:a">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
__________________________________________________________

_______________________main.xml_______________________

<?xml: version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="style.xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" href="style.css"?>
<Rgallery>
<Name>RGALLERY.COM</Name>
<Section>
<Links xmlns:html='

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40'>

<html:a href='

http://www.rgallery.com/images'>Main

Index</html:a>
<html:a href='

http://www..com/images/page1.html'>Page1</html:a>

<html:a href='

http://www..com/images/page2.html'>Page2</html:a>

<html:a href='

http://www..com/images/page3.html'>Page3</html:a>

<html:a href='

http://www..com/images/page4.html'>Page4</html:a>

<html:a href='

http://www..com/images/page5.html'>Page5</html:a>

<html:a href='

http://www..com/images/page6.html'>Page6</html:a>

</Links>
</Section>
</Rgallery>
_______________________________________________________

Thanks so much..I know it's probably a simple answer, but I'm at a loss....

Matt

rogue8649 · Aug 29, 2001

My apologies, but to clarify, the LIST items are not displaying at all. It simply displays a blank page.

MrTom · Aug 30, 2001

i'm not to sure about the structure of the doc but i can't really say where it breaks down

you could try...

<xsl:template match="Rgallery">
<b class="banner"><xsl:value-of select="Name"/></b>
<xsl:apply-templates select="Section/Links"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Links">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="html:a">
<li>
<a><xsl:value-of select=".">
</a>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:template>

in the original code, when you template match the "Rgallery/Section/Links", i don't think this can be done when you've already matched "RGallery". certainly the way xsl is designed is to call a new apply-templates from the node, and that's how you traverse down the tree. To skip the over the "Section" node i've put in a select.

then in the template for "Links" i've left things pretty much as they are. the apply-templates inside the for-each is incorrect tho. this will try to apply-templates to the children of each "html:a" and not to the "html:a" itself.

you could also do it like this...

<xsl:template match="Links">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="html:a">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</li>
</xsl:template>

note: in the template for "html:a" the last apply-templates will try to match a template on the link itself, but because after you take away the <html:a> tags there's nothing to match then just the name of the link will be written.

the output of what i've done here doesn't include any html tags, it will just print the link names as a list - just to keep the code compact

i hope i haven't confused you more now

rogue8649 · Aug 30, 2001

Thanks so much. I still can't get the LINKS to activate, but at least the pages LIST now and it's not blank!! Thanks again!

Matt

MrTom · Aug 31, 2001

to print a link you'd do

<xsl:template match="html:a">
<li>
<a href="{@href}">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</a>
</li>
</xsl:template>

the bit in the {} is an xpath expression, in this case it just matches the attribute href from your links.

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