At 2004-02-18 22:50 +0100, Nikolas Nehmer wrote:
Hi, sorry it's me again.
No need to apologize!
I'm looking for a possibility of intra document links with xhtml. For
better imagination a little example:
...
<iese.Chapter:Chapter>
<iese.Chapter:heading>Kapitel
1</iese.Chapter:heading>
...
For each chapter I would like to create a link, for
example a href to that chapter. When you klick that link the
visualisation for that Chapter should be displayed (e.g a table again).
Creating the visualisation is not my problem, but I don't know if there
is way to build those intra document links! Are there any possibilities,
any suggestions?
Absolutely ... the designers of XSLT provided for just this.
I frist thought about declaring an ID attribute for any
chapter but I don't know if I can point to that ID by html hrefs.
Yes, you could do that, but it is not necessary in XSLT.
Every node in every tree created for an XSLT process (all source trees and
the stylesheet tree) is assigned a generated unique identifier. This
identifier is an opaque value that is used in its entirety and is defined
by the processor in any fashion it wishes, provided that the identifier
lexically matches an XML NCName.
NCNames can, therefore, be used in HTML anchors as names and hrefs.
You ask the processor for a node's generated identifier using the function
generate-id(nodeAddress) and every time you ask for that node's identifier
in a given run of a stylesheet, you get the same value back. It may or may
not be the same value the next time you run the stylesheet, so you cannot
rely on any persistence so you cannot expect an identifier generated for a
node in one run will be the same in the next run.
You take advantage of these generated identifiers to synthesize ID/IDREF
relationships, not only where there are no ID values available, but I have
learned through experience it is safest to use generated identifiers even
for nodes that have ID values (this protects from ambiguities when dealing
with multiple source trees with ID values in each).
When you process your chapter table of contents, you utilize the chapter's
generated identifier in the href= attribute. To ensure there is something
to point to when you process your chapter, you utilize the chapter's
generated identifier in the name= attribute. The resulting file has
resolved HTML hyperlinks from your TOC to your body.
<!--TOC-->
<xsl:for-each select="b:Book/b:chapters/iese.Chapter:Chapter">
<li>
<a href="{generate-id(.)}">
<xsl:value-of select="iese.Chapter:heading"/>
</a>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
...
<!--Body processing-->
<xsl:for-each select="b:Book/b:chapters/iese.Chapter:Chapter">
<h3>
<a name="{generate-id(.)}">
<xsl:value-of select="iese.Chapter:heading"/>
</a>
</h3>
<!--rest of chapter processing-->
</xsl:for-each>
I hope this helps.
............................. Ken
p.s. I am teaching XSLT/XPath/XSL-FO in May in Bremen ... if you could
please help spread the word to any local XML user groups, it would be
greatly appreciated; thanks!
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