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Create anchors in an XHTML document generated with XSLT

2-Nov-06 5:24

Could you please edit your post and have it ignore the HTML tags? Or convert all the <'s to <'s and >'s to >'s.

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Re: XSLT:copy-of

ybasha2-Nov-06 5:30

ybasha

2-Nov-06 5:30

i did already pls check the subject XSLT:copy-of element

thanx

ISmith30-Oct-06 7:47

ISmith

30-Oct-06 7:47

I have an XML and XSLT pair that I created to display the contents of a sorted list of items. I want the transformed output to have anchors on each letter of the alphabet and a list of letters at the top which the user can click to jump directly to a particular letter. For example...

A B C ... (all the letters of the alphabet.)

A
some stuff

B
some more more stuff

C
you get the idea...

If someone clicked on C, they would link to the named anchor at C below in the list. I have two types of element, the one for the individual list entries and one for the letters that go between elements. My XML looks something like:

<list>
<letter>A</letter>
<listitem>
<name>A-item name</name>
<description>The description of this item which has a name that begins with 'A'.</description>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<name>A Seoncd-item name</name>
<description>The description of another item which has a name that begins with 'A'.</description>
</listitem>
<letter>B
<listitem>
<name>B-item name</name>
<description>The description of this item which has a name that begins with 'A'.</description>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<name>B Seoncd-item name</name>
<description>The description of another item which has a name that begins with 'A'.</description>
</listitem>
</list>

I can create a two column table and have no trouble creating the rows with the letter header but can't seem to get the value of the letter into the name of the anchor tag. What I want is that when it sees a letter element, it should create the following content for the table cell that shows the letter 'A':

<td colspan="2">AIs there a way to do that or am I just wasting my time? I've been looking all morning at various web sites and haven't found anything that will do what I want. Cry | :((

My boss thinks it would be a cool/useful idea for the page I'm creating and I want to look good. I haven't got a ton of time to waste as I have other projects due this week, so any help would be appreciated. Maybe I'm just not looking for the right thing...

Irene

Re: Create anchors in an XHTML document generated with XSLT

George L. Jackson30-Oct-06 13:53

George L. Jackson

30-Oct-06 13:53

I made some changes to your xml document:

<list>
<items letter="A">
<item name="First A-Item Name">
<description>The description of this item which has a name that begins with 'A'.</description>
</item>
<item name="Second A-Item Name">
<description>The description of another item which has a name that begins with 'A'.</description>
</item>
</items>
<items letter="B">
<item name="First B-Item Name">
<description>The description of this item which has a name that begins with 'B'.</description>
</item>
<item name="Second B-Item Name">
<description>The description of another item which has a name that begins with 'B'</description>
</item>
</items>
</list>

Here is my XSLT code that produces what you may want:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>Alpha-Anchor</title>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="3">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list/items/@letter"/>
</tr>
</table>
<div style="height: 800pt"></div>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list/items"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@letter">
<td><a href="#{.}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a></td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="items">
<div id="{@letter}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="item"/>
</div>
<div style="height: 400pt"></div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<table>
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="description"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Re: Create anchors in an XHTML document generated with XSLT

ISmith31-Oct-06 6:16

ISmith

31-Oct-06 6:16

Thank you for your help. I couldn't figure out how to get my value into the attribute for the anchor and I couldn't even formulate the question correctly! I appreciate your help.

Irene

Web Service needed for Sharepoint

dgibson553130-Oct-06 3:08

dgibson5531

30-Oct-06 3:08

I would like to develop a web service to be invoked from an InfoPath form which will create a Blog posting in Sharepoint (V3). Blog would already exist, need to create post values from Infopath XML form values. I noticed there is a long list of Sharepoint objects that start with SP*. Would appreciate any help to get started. Thanks.

Insert one value in XSLT file

shapper27-Oct-06 9:00

shapper

27-Oct-06 9:00

Hello,

I am transforming a XML file into another XML file using a XSLT.

Everything is working fine! I have only one problem:

I want one of the values in my XSLT file to be taken from a Key in my Web.Config AppSettings!

Please see the XSLT code:

Hi,

I was reading some Merge Methods in the web but I am having some problems making this work.

Look at my XSLT code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
xmlns:dk="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="dk:*"/>
<xsl:template match="@*|text()|comment()"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:element name="urlset">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//dk:siteMapNode[@google='true']"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="dk:siteMapNode">
<xsl:element name="url">
<xsl:element name="loc">
<xsl:text>http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring(@url, 3)"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="lastmod">
<xsl:value-of select="@lastmod"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="changefreq">
<xsl:value-of select="@changefreq"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="priority">
<xsl:value-of select="@priority"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Do you see the line?

<xsl:text>http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/</xsl:text>

I want "http://www.MYDOMAIN.com/" to be taken from a Key in Application Settings in my Web.Config or at run time before the XML file is displayed.

Thanks,

Miguel

Re: Insert one value in XSLT file

Dustin Metzgar27-Oct-06 9:17

xpath during xsl transfomation

27-Oct-06 9:17

You can pass a parameter into the XSL when you perform the transformation. The XSL would have this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" ... >
  <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/> 
  <xsl:param name="myUrl"/>

  ...
      <xsl:element name="loc">
        <xsl:value-of select="$myUrl" />
        <xsl:value-of select="substring(@url, 3)"/>
      </xsl:element>
  ...

Then when you perform the transformation, we'll assume you have a XslCompiledTransform object called transform. You just create an XsltArgumentList object and pass it in when you call Transform:

XsltArgumentList xal = new XsltArgumentList();
xal.AddParam("myUrl", "", "http://www.MYDOMAIN.COM");
transform.Transform("some.xml", xal, XmlWriter.Create("someoutput.xml"));

That way you should be able to pull your value from the app.config when you do the transformation.

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Savas Cilve27-Oct-06 4:24

27-Oct-06 4:24

hi, i have an xml and xsl for creating wordml. during the transformation i have to reach the some xsl nodes with xpath. but the xpaths i wrote always run for xml. how can i reach xsl inside the xsl? (there is only one xsl.)

Savas

led mike27-Oct-06 5:16

led mike

27-Oct-06 5:16

If you are trying get the XSLT processor to address nodes in the XSLT file using XPath... you can't.

led mike

Savas Cilve27-Oct-06 5:19

27-Oct-06 5:19

without xpath? or can i reach anyway?

Savas

led mike27-Oct-06 5:45

led mike

27-Oct-06 5:45

savasorama wrote:
or can i reach anyway?

"reach"? What does that mean?

led mike

Dustin Metzgar27-Oct-06 8:05

27-Oct-06 8:05

Are you storing XML data in your XSL stylesheet or are you trying to run a set of XSL commands from a different place in the stylesheet?

Savas Cilve30-Oct-06 1:15

30-Oct-06 1:15

I'm storing data in the xml file and transforming to the wordml via xsl. My problem is; there is font name and size declaration in the xsl and also one template that replaces string. In the xsl all <w:rPr> tags have <w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial"> but when the replace string template being called all of these fonts are ignored and it writes with the default font (Times New Roman).
Is there any way to let this not happen?

Dustin Metzgar1-Nov-06 5:16

1-Nov-06 5:16

I'd have to see a little of your XSL to help with this. Could you provide an example of where you have the font set up and then call the "replace string" template?

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Savas Cilve1-Nov-06 5:28

1-Nov-06 5:28

<w:tc>
<w:tcPr>
<w:tcW w:w="1476" w:type="dxa"/>
</w:tcPr>
<w:p>
<w:pPr>
<w:rPr>
<w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial" w:h-ansi="Arial" w:cs="Arial"/>
<wx:font wx:val="Arial"/>
<w:sz w:val="18"/>
<w:sz-cs w:val="18"/>
</w:rPr>
</w:pPr>
<xsl:variable name="value">
<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
<xsl:with-param name="text">
<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
<xsl:with-param name="text">
<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
<xsl:with-param name="text">
<xsl:value-of select="obj:ClientName"/>
</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="replace">[H]</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="with"><b><i></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="replace">[/H]</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="with"></i></b></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="replace">&</xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="with">&amp;</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="msxsl:node-set(elu:StringToDom($value,'true'))/*" mode="dynamic-formatting"/>
</w:p>
</w:tc>

this is the font-name declaration and template calling part..

<xsl:template name="replace-string">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="replace"/>
<xsl:param name="with"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text,$replace)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$with"/>
<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$replace)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="replace" select="$replace"/>
<xsl:with-param name="with" select="$with"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

and this is the template.. Thanks...

Savas

Dustin Metzgar1-Nov-06 10:32