transform xml to html

[theodora]

I'm new to xslt and trying to use it to transform xml files to html tables.

Here is the xml files format:
<Root>
<a1>value-of-a1</a1>
<a2>value-of-a2</a2>
<a3>
<a3i>value-ofa3i</a3i>
<a3ii>
<a3iia>value-ofa3iia<a3iia>
<a3iib>value-ofa3iib<a3iib>
</a3>
<a4>value-ofa4</a4>
..
<Root>

The result I'm expected is like this:
a1 value-of-a1
a2 value-of-a2
a3 - a3i value-of-a3i
a3 - a3ii - a3iia value-of-a3iia
a3 - a3ii - a3iib value-of-a3iib
a4 value-of-a4

Is it possible to have one generic xsl that will do the transformation for all xml files with the same format?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[chiph]

An approach that I've found very helpful is to write out some sample HTML that looks like you expect it to, and then go back and replace the contents with XSLT commands to fetch values from your XML file.

Chip H.