I'm not sure the whole approach is right but shouldn't the 'call-template
name="loop"' be inside the for-each?
Joe
From: "Austin, Darrel"
<Darrel(_dot_)Austin(_at_)courts(_dot_)state(_dot_)mn(_dot_)us>
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Subject: [xsl] Confused using a loop...
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:36:55 -0500
Still working on the RSS transformation...
I had everything working, except that I realized I want to only grab x
number of elements instead of all matches. To do this, I think I need to
use a recursive template with a parameter. This is what I have (I've
removed the RSS tags to make the XSL clearer) but the problem is that it
does only loop 3 times as wanted, but my 'value-of' tags in my
'createItem' template are all null/blank. I'm not sure why.
=======================================================
<xsl:variable name="numberOfItemsToList" select="3"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//menuItem[pageID =
$pageID]/descendant-or-self::menuItem">
<xsl:sort select="substring(lastUpdate,1,4)"
order="descending" /> <!-- year -->
<xsl:sort select="substring(lastUpdate,6,2)"
order="descending" /> <!-- month -->
<xsl:sort select="substring(lastUpdate,9,2)"
order="descending" /> <!-- day -->
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:call-template name="loop"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="loop">
<xsl:param name="i">1</xsl:param>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$i <= $numberOfItemsToList">
<xsl:call-template name="createItem" />
<xsl:call-template name="loop">
<xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i + 1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="createItem">
<xsl:value-of select="browserTitle" />
Page last updated: <xsl:value-of select="lastUpdate" />
<a
href="http://www.mncourts.gov{$linkPrefix}?page={pageID}">http://www.mnc
ourts.gov<xsl:value-of select="$linkPrefix"/>?page=<xsl:value-of
select="pageID"/></a>
<xsl:value-of select="lastUpdate" />
</xsl:template>
=======================================================
Sample XML:
<menuItems>
<menuItem>
<pageID>938</pageID>
<browserTitle>Home Page</browserTitle>
<lastUpdate>2006/06/12</lastUpdate>
<menuItem>
<pageID>998</pageID>
<browserTitle>District Administration</browserTitle>
<lastUpdate>2006/06/06</lastUpdate>
</menuItem>
<menuItem>
<pageID>1342</pageID>
<browserTitle>Employment</browserTitle>
<lastUpdate>2006/07/13</lastUpdate>
</menuItem>
...
-Darrel
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