hi,
I have the content of a website organized in folders, so there is a
one webpage to one xml-file relation. I read the contents of the files
and generate a xml document from this.
In a second step I use a xslt stylesheet to open each of this files
via document() and extract some information, which leads to a
navigation structure, where I have a link, a title, a description and
so on.
now my problem: as the files are in the filesystem, they are ordered
by alphabet (at least I get it this way from the .net framework) which
is not what I want. For example I want the page 'contact' to be the
last of a generation, but as it starts with c it comes somewhere at
the beginning.
so I had no better idea than put a navi:order field into each of these
files, which contains a number after which I could sort. (anyone with
a better idea? I don't like mine too much because it mixes structure
with content).
Anyway, I have not found a way to actually bring this to work...
some examples ....
the filestructure...
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<site xmlns:site="http://limpens.com/site";>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:children>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:children>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/TaskSheet.xml</site:xml-file>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/VectorPainter.xml</site:xml-file>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/WwwLimpensCom.xml</site:xml-file>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/WwwWaldeckAt.xml</site:xml-file>
</site:document>
</site:children>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Illustrations.xml</site:xml-file>
</site:document>
</site:children>
</site:document>
</site>
======================================================================
the xslt to produce the navigation structure
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xmlns:site="http://limpens.com/site";
xmlns:blog="http://limpens.com/blogbase";
xmlns:navi="http://limpens.com/navigation";>
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-16" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="selectedLanguage" select="'de'"/>
<xsl:param name="defaultLanguage" select="'en'"/>
<xsl:param name="baseDir" select="'file:///D:/XmlContent'"/>
<xsl:template match="site">
<site>
<xsl:apply-templates select="site:document"/>
</site>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="site:document">
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>
<xsl:value-of select="site:xml-file"/>
</site:xml-file>
<site:link>
<xsl:text>/</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$selectedLanguage"/>
<xsl:value-of
select="substring-before(substring-after(string(site:xml-file),
$baseDir), 'xml')"/>
<xsl:text>aspx</xsl:text>
</site:link>
<xsl:apply-templates select="document(site:xml-file)"/>
<xsl:if test="site:children">
<site:children>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="site:children/site:document">
<xsl:sort
select="navi:order"/><!--does not work-->
</xsl:apply-templates>
</site:children>
</xsl:if>
</site:document>
</xsl:template>
<<xsl:template match="blog:Blog">
<site:title>
<xsl:value-of
select="blog:BlogInfos/blog:BlogInfo[lang($selectedLanguage)]/navi:title"/>
</site:title>
<site:description>
<xsl:value-of
select="blog:BlogInfos/blog:BlogInfo[lang($selectedLanguage)]/blog:Description"/>
</site:description>
<site:order>
<xsl:value-of select="navi:order"/>
</site:order>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
======================================================================
a sample xml document
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<Blog xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns="http://limpens.com/blogbase";
xsi:schemaLocation="http://limpens.com/blogbase Schemas\BlogBase.xsd"
xmlns:navi="http://limpens.com/navigation";>
<navi:order>30</navi:order>
<BlogInfos>
<BlogInfo xml:lang="en">
<navi:title>Software Development</navi:title>
<Title>Diverse Software Development Projects</Title>
<Description>Once in a while I still reach back to my
other passion
- programming. Sometimes something usefull emerges, then you can read
about it just here...</Description>
</BlogInfo>
<BlogInfo xml:lang="de">
<navi:title>Software Entwicklung</navi:title>
<Title>Verschiedene Software Entwicklungen</Title>
<Description>Hin und wieder gebe ich mich meiner anderen
Leidenschaft (neben dem Zeichnen) hin - der Programmierung. Manchmal
entstehen dabei auch nützliche und/oder interessante
Dinge.</Description>
</BlogInfo>
<BlogInfo xml:lang="pt">
<navi:title>Desenvolvimento de Soft</navi:title>
<Title>Diversas desenvolvimentos de soft</Title>
<Description>De vez em quando eu crio algo prático
nessa áreo. É
aqui onde eu escevo sobre estes assuntos...</Description>
</BlogInfo>
</BlogInfos>
</Blog>
======================================================================
the navigation structure
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<site xmlns:site="http://limpens.com/site";
xmlns:blog="http://limpens.com/blogbase";
xmlns:navi="http://limpens.com/navigation";>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>Homepage</site:title>
<site:description>Here you'll find a selection of my works in
the
areas of illustration, my recent publications and some articles on
software design.</site:description>
<site:children>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home/Development.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>Software Development</site:title>
<site:description>Once in a while
...</site:description>
<site:order>30</site:order>
<site:children>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/TaskSheet.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home/Development/TaskSheet.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>Task Sheet - an
online time management software</site:title>
<site:description>TaskSheet</site:description>
<site:thumbnail>/Images/Thumbnails/TaskSheet.png</site:thumbnail>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/VectorPainter.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home/Development/VectorPainter.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>A vector drawing
application still in planning</site:title>
<site:description>This
shows...</site:description>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/WwwLimpensCom.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home/Development/WwwLimpensCom.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>www.limpens.com -
new and shiney</site:title>
<site:description>There was an
old one, ...</site:description>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Development/WwwWaldeckAt.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home/Development/WwwWaldeckAt.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>Waldeck.at gets a
new face (well, a new
technology)</site:title>
<site:description>With
technologies similar ...</site:description>
</site:document>
</site:children>
</site:document>
<site:document>
<site:xml-file>file:///D:/XmlContent/Home/Illustrations.xml</site:xml-file>
<site:link>/en/Home/Illustrations.aspx</site:link>
<site:title>Illustration</site:title>
<site:description>Here you will find a wild mix
of projects, jobs,
ideas, rants and everything that comes to my mind in this
category.</site:description>
<site:order>10</site:order>
</site:document>
</site:children>
</site:document>
</site>
any idea how to sort after navi:order?
many thanks!
--
jan
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