Firstly, you need to get rid of this code:
<xsl:text><OPTION VALUE = "</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()" />
<xsl:text>"></xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()" />
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
which is trying to generate HTML as text, not as a result tree. XSLT
stylesheets produce nodes in a tree, they don't produce text containing
markup - that's the job of the serializer.
The above should be written:
<option value="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
</option>
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Moore, Simon
Sent: 26 November 2002 09:19
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Build a select list of nodes
Hi
Another New recruit... :-) I would be grateful for any
help on this as it is my first real XSL project.
I am trying to build a list of all the unique nodenames
available in an xml file and present it as a selectable drop
down list in an HTML page.
I am using IE 5.5 and MSXML on Windows 95. At the moment I
have all the files saved on my windows desktop so everything is local.
My problem is that when I open the HTML page, the surrounding
text and select box apprear, but there is nothing to select in the
box. If I change the output method to text I can see that my
newline has no effect at all. The listbox OPTION statements
appear as one
long line. If I put a <BR /> tag in the loop and comment out
the FORM and SELECT tags then it will print the text in the
same way as if I had
typed the HTML by hand - if I paste it into a file and test
it in the browser as a fixed page it all works perfectly.
I searched on the Web and found that preserveWhiteSpace has
some effect on spacing but, I'm not so sure that this is the
solution. I just can't
get it to work. I'm sure that I am missing something simple.
I have included a sample XML plus my XSL and HTML page. The
XSL, HTML/JavaScript have been patched together from
different sources (web/books).
Many thanks
Simon.
--------- START XML --------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="./list_test.xsl"?>
<computer-list>
<computer>
<name>fred</name>
<project>fasttrack</project>
<architecture>w32-ix86</architecture>
<status>UP</status>
<diskdrives>
<drive>A</drive>
<drive>B</drive>
<drive>C</drive>
</diskdrives>
</computer>
.... more computers are in the list ....
</computer-list>
--------- END XML --------
--------- START XSL --------
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:variable name="newline">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="testtext">
<xsl:text>
This is a test of the variables and it works when selected
later in the XSL.
</xsl:text>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:key name="elements" match="*" use="name()" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>
<xsl:text>Maclaren - Select The elements required</xsl:text>
</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>
<xsl:text>Summary of Elements</xsl:text>
</H1>
<BR />
<xsl:value-of select="$testtext"/>
<BR />
<FORM>
<SELECT NAME = "eltype">
<xsl:for-each
select="//*[generate-id(.)=generate-id(key('elements',name())[1])]">
<xsl:sort select="name()" />
<xsl:for-each select="key('elements', name())">
<xsl:if test="position()=1">
<xsl:text><OPTION VALUE = "</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()" />
<xsl:text>"></xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()" />
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<!-- If I put BR/ here the text prints the
correct HTML text -->
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</SELECT>
</FORM>
<BR />
<xsl:text>there should be a newline after this but it doesn't
work...</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$newline"/>
<xsl:text>This line just gets concatenated to the previous
line.</xsl:text>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--------- END XSL --------
--------- START HTML/JAVASCRIPT --------
<html>
<head>
<title>
XML test !!
</title>
</head>
<body>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
// Load XSL
var objXSLT = new
ActiveXObject("MSXML2.FreeThreadedDomDocument");
objXSLT.async = false;
objXSLT.load("list_test.xsl");
// create a compiled XSL-object
var objCompiled = new
ActiveXObject("MSXML2.XSLTemplate");
objCompiled.stylesheet =
objXSLT.documentElement;
// create XSL-processor
var objXSLProc = objCompiled.createProcessor();
// Load XML
var objXML = new
ActiveXObject("MSXML2.FreeThreadedDomDocument");
objXML.preserveWhiteSpace = true;
objXML.async = false;
objXML.load("tmp.xml");
// input for XSL-processor
objXSLProc.input = objXML;
//
objXSLProc.addParameter("NameOfYourParameter1",
"ValueOfYourParameter1");
//
objXSLProc.addParameter("NameOfYourParameter2",
"ValueOfYourParameter2");
// etc...
// transform
objXSLProc.transform();
// display
document.write(objXSLProc.output);
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>
--------- END HTML/JAVASCRIPT --------
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