First you have to come up with the html structures that you want to use.
Then you can work out how to create them. As for id values, you can
always concatenate the menu names as you construct the source xml, or do
it programatically -
id='root_item_sub_item1_sub_sub_item1'
That should be enough to let you identify them.
Cheers,
Tom P
[ Gregory Propf ]
I am trying to create an XML-XSL based menu system for a website. I
want to be able to designate some menu items as "expanded"
and others as
not. The idea is that a user clicks a menu link and the
frame reloads
with that menu node expanded to show the subitems. I have XML that
looks like this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Menuitem Name="Root_item" expanded="false">
<Menuitem Name="sub_item1" expanded="false">subitem1</Menuitem>
<Menuitem Name="sub_item2" expanded="false">subitem2</Menuitem>
<Menuitem Name="sub_item3" expanded="false">subitem3</Menuitem>
<Menuitem Name="sub_item4" expanded="false">subitem4
<Menuitem Name="sub_sub_item1"
expanded="false">sub_sub_item1</Menuitem>
<Menuitem Name="sub_sub_item2"
expanded="false">sub_sub_item2</Menuitem>
<Menuitem Name="sub_sub_item3"
expanded="false">sub_sub_item3</Menuitem>
</Menuitem>
</Menuitem>
The idea is that I want to set the expanded values to true
dynamically
as people hit the site and want to see the subnodes. I'll
probably be
using Xalan called from a servlet (Java). I initially
thought I could
just create a hash with node names as keys. Apparently XSL doesn't
support hashes though. Anyone know how to do this or something that
will be equivalent. Also Can anyone recommend a good xsl-xpath
reference, preferable free and online.
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