Hello all.
I've run into a problem with the ordering of my output. I've tried looking for
an answer, but I
can't find one in the archives or via Google, so I'm turning to you for help.
If this is a
FAQ/RTM question, please let me know where the FAQ list/Manual are as I can't
seem to
find them.
The project is to take an article for an ezine and transform it into HTML (and
PDF
eventually). I've got the XML for the articles created, and I'm working with
the XSL file
now. The problem I have is that when I run the XSL file as it is below through
Xalan-J, I get
an output file that has a list of headers followed by a list of paragraphs.
What I'm looking to
get is an intermingled list of headers and paragraphs.
Thanks for your help!
ARTICLE.XML
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<article>
<title>This would hold the title of the article.</title>
<summary>This is a one sentance summary of the article.</summary>
<author email="someone(_at_)someplace(_dot_)com"
homepage="http://somewhere.com/author";>John Doe</author>
<aboutAuthor>Biographical information goes in here.</aboutAuthor>
<section>Introduction</section>
<para sectionTitle="Introduction">put some text here. put some text
here. put
some text here. put some text here. </para>
<para>
<link destination="Slashdot.org" name="slashdot" />
<link destination="http://www.cnn.com"; name="CNN" />
<link destination="http://www.mozilla.org/"; name="Mozilla" />
</para>
<section>Installation</section>
<para> put some text here. put some text here. put some text here.
put some
text here. </para>
<para>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. </para>
<section>Using the program</section>
<para>put some text here. put some text here. put some text here.
put some text
here. </para>
<para><warning>Do Not feed the Lions!</warning> <emphasis>put some
text
here.</emphasis> put some <emphasis>text</emphasis> here. put some text here.
</para>
<para>abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. <link
destination="http://slashdot.org";
name="slashdot" /> abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. </para>
<para> <keyboardInput>ftp ftp.mozilla.org</keyboardInput></para>
<para>in the <objectName>System Setup</objectName> folder, select the
<objectName>Mouse</objectName> object and go to the Comet Cursor page. Make
sure
the <dialogOption>Comet Cursor On</dialogOption> option has a checkmark in the
box.
Now you have to restart your computer, you can do this by pressing the
<keys>Control-Alt-Delete</keys> combination.</para>
<section>Summary</section>
<para>put some text here. put some text here. put some text here.
put some text
here. </para>
</article>
TRANSFORM.XSL
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
Transitional//EN"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head><title>VOICE Newsletter - Date <xsl:value-of
select="article/title"
/></title></head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<h1><xsl:value-of select="article/title" /></h1>
<p class="authorname">by <a><xsl:attribute
name="href">mailto:DESPAM-<xsl:value-of select="article/author/@email"
/></xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="article/author" /></a></p><!--need to
insert
HREF="" into <A> tag for mailto to function.-->
<p><xsl:value-of select="article/summary" /></p></div>
<div id="mainContent">
<xsl:apply-templates select="article/section" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="article/para"/>
<div id="references">
<h2>References and Links</h2>
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates select="article/para/link"/>
</ul>
</div><!--end references-->
</div><!--end main content-->
<div id="authorInfo"><p><strong><xsl:value-of
select="article/author"/>'s</strong>  <xsl:value-of
select="article/aboutAuthor"/></p></div>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ====================== -->
<xsl:template name="section">
<h2>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</h2>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ====================== -->
<xsl:template match="article/para">
<p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p><!--templates for links, images,
emphasis,
etc. launched from this template?-->
</xsl:template>
<!-- ====================== -->
<xsl:template match="article/para/link">
<li><a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of
select="./@destination"/></xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of
select="./@name"/></a></li>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
Matt Bear
email:
mfbear(_at_)earthlink(_dot_)net
WWW:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mfbear/
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