I am working on a shop system for a friend of mine. This
system shall parse one XML file into several static XHTML
documents. As you may expect, there are several problems to
manage. XHTML documents have to be created for each product,
for each category and so on. Creating a page for each product
in its categories directory - e.g.
/catalogue/CDs/product_120.html - is easy using
xsl:result-document since I make use of the latest version of
Saxon and XSLT 2.0.
But with the categories I ran into several logistic yet
highly interesting problems:
As you may imagine, the shop might have lots more
CDs than, for example, Textiles, so I would like to add an
opportunity to split the page created for each <group> into
one or more pages, each including all artists beginning with
the same letter or one letter out of a range of letters.
[snip]
I think this is kind of tricky as I want to make the
splitting option as variable as possibly. What I don't know
is if I need a new attribute or child in <group/> with
comma-separated letters/letter-groups and how I may interpret
these. Or is it possible to interpret letters or
letter-groups as xsl:sequence's in order to iterate through them?
Everything you have mentioned is perfectly possible - you can limit the
items per page by number or by initial, all configurable through
parameters or a different top-level stylesheet. It's basic grouping, so
I would search read up on that first.
I have been thinking about this for two hours now. Perhaps
some of you do know a solution for it or at least are able to
help in developing one.
2 hours! :) is that a long time to be thinking about a problem?
cheers
andrew
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