I am tyriong to design a piece of xslt which will enclose another xslt in
<span> tags and <code> tags so i can present the code in different colours
in a web page. Doind this by hand takes a long long time. I have an example
xslt like this:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:key name="items-by-category" match="item" use="category" />
<xsl:template match="rss/channel">
<xsl:for-each select="item[count(. | key('items-by-category', category)[1])
= 1]">
<h2 class="head-small-orangedark" style="margin-bottom:3px"><xsl:value-of
select="category"/></h2>
<xsl:for-each select="key('items-by-category', category)">
<xsl:variable name ="url" select="link" />
<xsl:variable name ="length"
select="string-length(description)" />
<h3 style="font-size:100%; margin-bottom:3px"><a
href="{$url}"><xsl:value-of select="title" /></a></h3>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$length > '512'">
<p style="font-size:85%; margin-left:1.5em"><xsl:value-of
select="substring(description,1,512)"/>...</p>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<p style="font-size:85%; margin-left:1.5em"><xsl:value-of
select="description"/></p>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
each line is enclosed with <code> tags, if there is a space the code tag
before needs margin-bottom style=0.5 (in order to show that space on the web
page). Things like xsl:when are enclsoed in <span> tags with a colour
blue......
elkemant names = <span class="blue">xsl:when</span>
anything in double quotes = <span
class="green">"substring(description,1,512)"</span>
parameters are red.
< and > signs would need to be changed to < > as well.
The ouput would look something like this:
<code class="sp" style="margin-bottom:0.5em"><<span class="blue"
>xsl:stylesheet</span> <span class="red">xmlns:xsl=</span><span
class="green">"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";</span> <span
class="red"> version=</span><span class="green">"1.0"</span>></code>
<code class="sp" style="margin-bottom:0.5em"><<span class="blue"
>xsl:key</span> <span class="red >name=</span><span class="green"
>"items-by-category"</span> <span class="red" >match=</span><span
class="green" >"item"</span> <span class="red" >use=</span><span
class="green" >"category"</span> /></code>
as u can see this involves alot of work!!
I am having difficulty knowing where to start and if it can be done using an
xslt? Template matches cant be done because it would be xslt elements that u
are matching....
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