I must have a stunted ability to search throughout the archives, because
once again I can't find anything specific to solve my problem that
should be common (sigh).
Anyway, I have a stylesheet that displays book titles depending on some
parameters passed to it. As a result, a dynamic number of books are
shown. I need to count the number of the book titles that are shown, and
display the result accordingly. If no book titles are shown at all, I
need to be able to display message in their absence. Only containing a
cursory knowledge of variables in XSLT, i'm not yet skilled enough to
handle this problem on my own. Some help would be great.
An example of the xml document follows:
<category name="Health & Fitness">
<book status="Purchased">
<title>Strength Training Anatomy</title>
<sub-title>Your Illustrated Guide to Muscles at Work</sub-title>
<author>Frédéric Delavier</author>
<isbn>0736041850</isbn>
<publisher>Human Kinetics Publishers</publisher>
<date>September, 2001</date>
<price>13.27</price>
</book>
</topic>
<topic name="Nutrition">
<book status="Purchased">
<category>Health & Fitness</category>
<title>Nutrition For Dummies</title>
<author>Carol Ann Rinzler</author>
<isbn>0764540823</isbn>
<publisher>Wiley Publishing</publisher>
<date>November, 2003</date>
<price>15.39</price>
</book>
<book status="Purchased">
<title>Encyclopedia of Sports & Fitness Nutrition</title>
<author>Liz Applegate</author>
<isbn>0761513787</isbn>
<publisher>Prima Publishing</publisher>
<date>December, 2002</date>
<price>16.07</price>
</book>
<book status="Purchased">
<title>Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook</title>
<author>Nancy Clark</author>
<isbn>073604602X</isbn>
<publisher>Human Kinetics Publishers</publisher>
<date>August, 2003</date>
<price>13.27</price>
</book>
</topic>
</category>
The stylesheet code follows:
<xsl:param name="category" />
<xsl:param name="topic" />
<xsl:param name="status" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<div class="line"></div>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/category/topic/book">
<xsl:sort select="title" data-type="text" order="ascending" />
<xsl:if test="$status = 'All' or ($status = 'Purchased' and
@status = 'Purchased')">
<xsl:if test="$category = 'All' or ($category = ../../@name and
($topic = ../@name or $topic = 'All'))">
<div><xsl:value-of select="title" /></div>
<div class="line"></div>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>