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August 4th, 2004, 03:59 PM

glacier6327

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Creating a Hyperlink in HTML from xml data...

Hello I am an XML newbie, and I have created my first page genrated from xml data using an xsl style sheet.. If I am saying that correctly.

I wish to use the following xml and xsl sytlesheet and have the ip data appear as a hyperlink in the final page with the ip adress and a refrence that is that same data... any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here is My xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="index.xsl" ?>
<Machine_Listing xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<machine>
<ID>Jayson Barker</ID>
<class>desktop</class>
<model>2645</model>
<type> V4U</type>
<serial>$5.95</serial>
<ip>9.51.62.133</ip> 

</machine>
<machine>.....

...</machine>
</Machine_Listing>

Here is my xsl file...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<HTML xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
<BODY STYLE="font-family:Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12pt;
background-color:#EEEEEE">
<xsl:for-each select="Machine_Listing/machine">
<DIV STYLE="background-color:red; color:white; padding:4px">
<SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold; color:white"><xsl:value-of select="ID"/></SPAN>
- <xsl:value-of select="class"/>
</DIV>
<xsl:value-of select="ID"/>

<DIV STYLE="margin-left:20px; margin-bottom:1em; font-size:10pt">

<SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic">

(<xsl:value-of select="type"/> model)
<xsl:value-of select="ip"/>
</SPAN>
</DIV>
</xsl:for-each>
</BODY>
</HTML>

August 4th, 2004, 04:22 PM

latrosicarius

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Instead of saying this:

Code:

<ip>9.51.62.133</ip>

Say this:

Code:

<ip>&l_t;a href="http://9.51.62.133/"&g_t;9.51.62.133&l_t;a&g_t;</ip>

except where i have an underscore (_) character in the &l_t; and &g_t; things, take out the underscore.

The reason is is that a &l_t; thing means a LESS-THAN sign ( < ) and a &g_t; thing means a GREATER-THAN sign ( > ), but you can't just write them in the XML b/c then the XML will think they are XML nodes.

Unfortunatly, XML does not have a CDATA equivelant for HTML content, so you have to use replacement characters for HTML symbols such as:

&l_t; for <
&g_t; for >
&a_mp; for &
&q_uot; for "
etc. (ALL WITHOUT THE UNDERSCORE CHARACTER)

Hope this helps,
Matt G.

August 5th, 2004, 07:26 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by glacier6327

I wish to use the following xml and xsl sytlesheet and have the ip data appear as a hyperlink in the final page with the ip adress and a refrence that is that same data... any help would be greatly appreciated. <ip>9.51.62.133</ip>

PHP Code:


		
			
<a>

   http://<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="ip"/></xsl:attribute>

   <xsl:value-of select="ip"/>

</a>

I had to adjust your xsl to make this work, so here is the entire stylesheet:

PHP Code:


		
			
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="html" />

<xsl:template match="/">

<!-- Edited with XML Spy v4.2 -->

<HTML>

<BODY STYLE="font-family:Arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12pt; background-color:#EEEEEE">

   <xsl:for-each select="Machine_Listing/machine">

      <DIV STYLE="background-color:red; color:white; padding:4px">

         <SPAN STYLE="font-weight:bold; color:white">

            <xsl:value-of select="ID"/>

         </SPAN>

         - <xsl:value-of select="class"/>

      </DIV>

      <xsl:value-of select="ID"/>

      <DIV STYLE="margin-left:20px; margin-bottom:1em; font-size:10pt">

         <SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic">

            (<xsl:value-of select="type"/> model)

            <A>

               <xsl:attribute name="href">

                  http://<xsl:value-of select="ip"/>

               </xsl:attribute>

               <xsl:value-of select="ip"/>

            </A> 

         </SPAN>

      </DIV>

   </xsl:for-each>

</BODY>

</HTML>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

August 11th, 2004, 01:25 PM

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That Worked.. Much Thanks NotGodess

That is exactly what i was looking for.. Ty very much

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