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Re: Trouble creating a table with multiple named templates

2005-05-03 10:27:32
Hi Jay,

Your project sounds intense. Pretty cool. I really like working the
reccommended way as I have found it to eliminate problems down the
road. The for-each method does work except that it does all those
elements at once. Is there a way to exit the for-each statement? I
like the idea of apply-templates though. That would keep me away from
the for-each and make my code simpler for others to read.

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
          <title>Directory</title>
    <body>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>    
    </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

Is that what you are talking about with <xsl:apply-templates/> 

The structure is really no more complex then what I have shown before
and what you have listed below. It was 3 seperate XML files, but I
merged them into 1 using ASP. When I include the
<xsl:apply-templates/> and use the stylesheet you provided earlier,
the XSL still does not walk through the XML file. I am going to be out
the rest of the day so no big hurry in a reply. Thanks again Jay and
to any one else who may contribute while I am away. I am getting a
book tommorrow too, so hopefully not as many silly questions. :)

Max Bronsema
 
Assuming that you have many <directory> elements within some parent
element (I'll call it directories for demonstration purposes), you might
try a for-each kind of solution. So, if your source XML looks like this:

<directories>
  <directory>
    <!-- The structure you showed us earlier here -->
  </directory>
  <directory>
    <!-- The structure you showed us earlier here -->
  </directory>
  <!-- and so on many times -->
</directories>

Then you could do something like this:

<xsl:template match="directories">
  <table>
    <xsl:for-each select="directory">
      <!-- Reach down the tree to get the bits you need to insert as rows
-->
    </xsl:for-each>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

Mind you, <xsl:apply-templates/> would work just fine here and be
preferred (match and apply is XSLT's natural processing model), but I'm
guessing you have additional complexity that might make for-each more
workable.


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