Is it possible to use xsl as a web template

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December 12th, 2003, 04:54 PM

TomWestcott

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Is it possible to use xsl as a web template

Hi, when I use php templates I have one main file like tpl.php which will look like this (seriously cut down version)

PHP Code:


		
			
function htmlheader()

{

  echo "<html>";

}

function htmlFooter()

{

  echo "</html>

}

Then in my main pages i willl have something like

PHP Code:


		
			
 htmlHeader();

echo "somecontent"

htmlFooter();

is it possible to set up any kind of system like this with xsl ?

I tried but would not be allowed due to having opening and closing tags in diffrent sections

any advice for me ?

Thank Tom

December 13th, 2003, 06:48 AM

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Yes you can, XSL is perfect for use as a web template language. I have a standard Layout.xsl file, a Header.xsl, footer.xsl, Navigation.xsl which are brought together by calling an xsl:include in the page master xsl file. Each page master would look something like this:

Code:

<!--
page.master.001.xsl
-->
...
...
<xsl:include href="layout.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="header.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="footer.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="navigation.xsl"/>
<xsl:include href="page.display.001.xsl"/>
...
<xsl:call-tamplate name="PageHeader"/>
<xsl:call-tamplate name="LayoutTable"/>

Then inside the layout table I'd call a navigation template, logo template etc and a MainContent template which is inside page.display.001.xsl - this lets me have a series of near-identical page.master.xxx.xsl files which all use xsl:include to call the same layout templates.

tamplate??? err ... sorry about that!

Last edited by teedee : December 13th, 2003 at 01:07 PM.

December 13th, 2003, 10:17 AM

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Can you show me some example content ?
When i try this for my header file

header.xsl

Code:

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

<xsl:output method='xhtml'
/>


	<xsl:template match="header">
	     <html>
	</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>

It returns an error XML parser error 7: mismatched tag
I have to close the tag with </html> but i would want this to be in the footer template no ?

December 13th, 2003, 01:03 PM

teedee

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ok, couple of points.

First off, the method should be "xml" not "xhtml". Using a value of "xml" tells the XSL engine to close all your tags like <this/> so your output will be xml (and therefore xhtml) compliant.

Second, your xsl file has to be xml-compliant with properly nested tags. The example you give isn't valid as the html tag has to be closed inside the header template. Here's a quick example ...

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output method="xml"/>
	<xsl:template match="header">
		<html>
			<xsl:call-template name="DoHeader">
				<xsl:with-param name="PageTitle">Example XHTML Output</xsl:with-param>
			</xsl:call-template>
			<xsl:call-template name="DoBody"/>
		</html>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template name="DoHeader">
		<xsl:param name="PageTitle"/>
		<head>
			<title>
				<xsl:value-of select="$PageTitle"/>
			</title>
		</head>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template name="DoBody">
		This is the body!
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

December 13th, 2003, 06:17 PM

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thanks but this still would not work for me the body is goign to change on each page?!? so i would have to make another file and adding the same <html> tage again to it so if i want to change something inside the <html></html> tag i still have to open up every page...

December 14th, 2003, 03:28 AM

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Obviously the body is going to change on each page, that's why you use different XML files for each page ...

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