Wow...I think your solution works... now
I just have to plug it into the more involved
XSL page with the colors, navigation bar stuff etc.
Thank you very much...I will let you know if it
works in the more complicated page. IT SHOULD!!!
thanks again...Bill Walker
--- Kenny Akridge <kakridge(_at_)bellsouth(_dot_)net> wrote:
Bill,
This template will work with both of your html
needs:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="page/links">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="categories">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(.)">
Categories: <br/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="category">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="database-links">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(.)">
<p/>Database Links: <br/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="database-link">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="website-links">
<xsl:if test="normalize-space(*/@filename)">
<p/>Website Links: <br/>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="website-link">
<xsl:value-of select="@filename"/><br/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It is in rough form, but you really don't need any
logic. You should
get the gist of what is going on here though.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Kenny Akridge
-----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 Bill Walker
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:31 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Which commands to use: xsl:if,
xsl:when, xsl:choose,
xsl:otherwise ??
Hi
I have learned just enough XML and XSLT to think I
understand what I am doing.
However, when I am faced with something that takes
more logic and real understanding of such things as:
xsl:if
xsl:choose
xsl:when
xsl:otherwise
.I find I really don't understand how to use them or
what is going on with the XSLT and the processing.
Here is my problem.
I am a librarian and am working on redesigning our
Library's website. Our plan is to group a lot of
information into 30 Subject Categories on the right
side of our opening screen.
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/index.htm
So far so good.
Underlying this idea, our committee decided to make
every single link on each subject and sub-category
page a separate XML file. For example, they all
start
as Dublin Core and look like this:
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/bureau-labor-stats.xm
l
Little by little we are beginning to do this. So
each
Subject Opening page will look like this example:
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/statistics/stat-openpg.htm
This page was generated from:
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-openpg.xsl
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-openpg.xml
For any page one level in we have a more simple page
that looks like this:
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/statistics/stat-gensit.htm
This is generated from a different XSL file and XML
file:
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-secondpage.xsl
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-gensit.xml
This all works pretty well and I COULD just go on
and
create an XML and an XSL file for each page.
But I began thinking, "There must be a way using
xsl:if or xsl:when or xsl:choose or xsl:otherwise to
make it so I could have ONE and one only XSL file
for
the whole site.
So I simplified an XML file to include what needs to
be (or not be) on all pages which would look like
this:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<page>
<links>
<categories>
<category>Metaphysics</category>
</categories>
<database-links>
<database-link>InfoTrac</database-link>
</database-links>
<website-links>
<website-link
filename="bureau-labor-stats.xml" />
</website-links>
</links>
</page>
The idea is that no matter whether I was generating
an
opening Subject screen or a page further in, all the
info. I need should be in this XML file.
What I cannot figure out is how to make XSL look at
this XML file and process it sequentially.
If it is an opening page, it will crank out the
Categories, Databases and the Weblinks lists .
If it is one page further in, it would have only
web-links. It would look the example below and,
finding no Categories And no Databases, it would
just
list the Websites...
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<page>
<links>
<categories>
<category />
</categories>
<database-links>
<database-link />
</database-links>
<website-links>
<website-link
filename="bureau-labor-stats.xml" />
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