On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 10:17:48AM -0700,
K. D. <mail2dennis2(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 32 lines which said:
Thank you in advance for your help. I am very
confused on how to build a XSLT stylesheet that
converts a document validated by a DTD with ?,+, and
*'s (like the enclosed example) from XML format to
publishable HTML.
It seems that (correct me if I'm wrong) you are a complete beginner in
XSLT. If so, I suggest that you cannot write your first stylesheet in
the next minutes and you should start to read a good book about XSLT.
For the DTD you mention, you will have to write a set of templates,
each generating HTML. For instance (I do not list every template and
this stylesheet is a fast and very crude one):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";
doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/REPORT">
<html>
<head>
<title><xsl:value-of select="TITLE"/></title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SECTION">
<!-- TODO: sections can be nested -->
<h1><xsl:value-of select="TITLE"/></h1>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="PARA">
<p><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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