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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