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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