XSL and paragraph editing 1

Gaelle · Jun 20, 2001

Hello !
I'm french so please don't mind my poor english !
I have a xml structure which build a document made of title, blocs and paragraphs.
I manage to display my datas with an XSL file, but what I'd like to do now is shifting my paragraphs like this :
TITLE
Part 1
Part 1.1
paragraph
paragraph
Part 1.2
Part 2
Because I only manage to get
TITLE
Part 1
Part 1.1
paragraph
paragraph
Part 1.2
Part 2

My XSL page is looping over my document structure like this :
<xsl:for-each select="document//bloc">
<xsl:value-of select="titre"/> 
<xsl:for-each select=".[paragraphe]">
... and so on

What I think I should do is making a kind of function that takes the level of a title or a bloc, and puts " " ahead, but I have tried a JavaScript function and I can't have it working.

Can someone help me, please !!!
Thanks,
Gaelle.

dianal · Jun 20, 2001

Hello,
There is a property called margin-left in CSS and you could use it as "margin-left: 5" in pixels or "margin-left: 5%".
Also I would recommend using applying templates instead of for-each.

Let have the following xml file docum.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
<title>Big Title </title>
<part id="1"> Part 1
<subpart id="1"> Part 1.1
<para>Paragraph a</para>
<para>Paragraph b</para>
<para>Paragraph c</para>
</subpart>
<subpart id="2"> Part 1.2
<para>Paragraph 1</para>
<para>Paragraph 2</para>
<para>Paragraph 3</para>
</subpart>
</part>
<part id="2"> Part 2
<para>Paragraph DDD1</para>
<para>Paragraph DDD2</para>
<para>Paragraph DDD3</para>
</part>
</document>

Let have the following xsl file docum.xsl:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body><xsl:value-of select="//title/text()"/> 
<xsl:apply-templates select="//part"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="part">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/> 
<xsl:apply-templates select="./subpart"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="./para"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="subpart">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/> 
<xsl:apply-templates select="./para"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="para">
<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/> 
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

The result will be visible through server-side processing (an asp file for example - docum.asp)

<%
'Load the XML
set oXmlDoc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMdocument&quot

oXmlDoc.async = false
oXmLDoc.load(Server.MapPath("docum.xml&quot

)

'Load the XSL
set oXslDoc = Server.CreateObject("MSXML2.DOMdocument&quot

oXslDoc.async = false
oXslDoc.load(Server.MapPath("docum.xsl&quot

)

'Transform the file
Response.Write(oXmlDoc.transformNode(oXslDoc))
%>

Hope this helps.
D.

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