The following xsl is invalid:
<xsl:if test="aTest">
<TABLE>
</xsl:if>
But what if I WANTED to open the tag here without closing it?
Is there a
way to escape the "<" and the ">"? I know you can use
"<"/">" but
these remain as "<" / ">" in the HTML.
As you are outputting to a result tree, you can only output well-formed
xml. You don't output a string, or build a string, or add to a string.
This will become clearer as times go on.
Once the transformation has finished, a serialiser can then traverse the
result tree and give you a string.
So, bearing in mind you can only output nodes to a tree, the usual way
to 'build' a table is:
<xsl:template match="/">
<table border="1">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="row">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="entry">
<td>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</td>
</xsl:template>
(used on:)
<row>
<entry>first column</entry>
<entry>second column</entry>
</row>
The result tree would look something like:
<table>
|
<tr>
/ \
/ \
<td> <td>
| |
text() text()
Does the ascii art help? :)
cheers
andrew
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