XSL Newbie: XSLT do not display specific item from XML

[cfbeginner]

HI Everyone,

I'm trying not to display one category item from the table, specifically 'News' category. How do I go about coding this in my XSL file. Here is the XML code(partial):
<category catid=&quot;4&quot; selected=&quot;0&quot; name=&quot;News &quot; description=&quot;News related to application development&quot;><subcategory subcatid=&quot;63&quot; selected=&quot;0&quot;><name>News </name><company> </company><isHotLink>1</isHotLink><nDocs>39</nDocs></subcategory></category>

Here is the XSL code:
<xsl:stylesheet version=&quot;1.0&quot;
xmlns:xsl='

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

<xslutput method='html'/>
<xsl:template match=&quot;root&quot;>
<xsl:variable name=&quot;count&quot; select=&quot;1&quot;/>
<table cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; WIDTH=&quot;100%&quot;>



<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[1]&quot; />
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[2]&quot; />
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[3]&quot; />
</tr>
<tr/><tr/><tr/><tr/><tr/><tr/>

<tr><td width=&quot;25%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[1]/subcategory&quot; />
</td>

<td width=&quot;5%&quot;></td>
<td width=&quot;25%&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot;>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[2]/subcategory&quot; /></td>
<td width=&quot;5%&quot;></td>
<td valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;25%&quot;>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[3]/subcategory&quot; /></td>
</tr>
<tr/><tr/><tr/><tr/><tr/><tr/>
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot; category[4]&quot; />
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot; category[5]&quot; />
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot; category[6]&quot; />
</tr>

<tr>
<td valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;25%&quot;>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[4]/subcategory&quot; /> </td>
<td width=&quot;5%&quot;></td>
<td valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;25%&quot;>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[5]/subcategory&quot; />

</td>
<td width=&quot;5%&quot;></td>
<td valign=&quot;top&quot; width=&quot;25%&quot;>
<xsl:apply-templates select=&quot;category[6]/subcategory&quot; /> </td>

</tr>


<tr>
<td colspan=&quot;5&quot; valign=&quot;top&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; >
<br/><br/>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name=&quot;href&quot;>Category.asp?CatID=0</xsl:attribute>
more categories...
</a>
</td>

</tr>


</table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match=&quot;category&quot;>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name=&quot;href&quot;>Category.asp?CatID=<xsl:value-of select=&quot;normalize-space(@catid)&quot;/>&amp;Catname=<xsl:value-of select=&quot;normalize-space(@name)&quot;/></xsl:attribute>
<td width=&quot;25%&quot; class=&quot;Category&quot; bgcolor=&quot;333366&quot; onMouseOut=&quot;this.bgColor='333366';return true;&quot;
onMouseOver=&quot;this.bgColor='FF9900';this.style.cursor='hand';&quot;>
<xsl:attribute name=&quot;title&quot;><xsl:value-of select=&quot;@description&quot; /></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select=&quot;@name&quot; />

</td>
</a>

<td width=&quot;5%&quot;></td>


</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match=&quot;subcategory&quot;>
<xsl:if test=&quot;(position() &lt; 5)&quot;>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name=&quot;href&quot;>Subcategory.asp?SubCatID=<xsl:value-of select=&quot;normalize-space(@subcatid)&quot;/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select=&quot;name&quot; /></a>
<xsl:if test=&quot;(position() &lt; 4)&quot;>
<xsl:if test=&quot;not(position()=last())&quot;>, </xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>



</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks for all your help!!!

 

[HowardMarks]

I'm not quite sure how your xsl works exactly but to loop through all items except a specific one is generally done like this:


<xsl:for-each select=&quot;//Root/Category[Name!='News']&quot;>

Loop content goes in here

</xsl:for-each>

This would show the loop for all Categories apart from the one where the name was 'News'.

Hope this helps! Nick (Software Developer)

http://www.retrographics.co.uk

http://www.retrotest.co.uk

nick@retrographics.fsnet.co.uk
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