Spaces and HTML links in XSL

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January 6th, 2003, 10:05 AM

marron79

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Spaces and HTML links in XSL

I have an XML document that I'm trying to convert to HTML w/a XSL stylesheet. I've got everything to work, but am having trouble w/two things.

Number one, how do you create a space in XSL? In HTML you use the non-breaking space symbol. This, of course, is not recognized by the XML parser.

Number two, how do you create a http link in XSL, and include the value of a XML document entity in the link? In PHP, I accomplish this by doing something like this:

echo "<a href=\"audio/$clipid\">mp3 clip</a>";

Here's my XML document:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>

<album>
	<artist>Rippingtons</artist>
	<title>Weekend In Monaco</title>
	<year>1992</year>
	<label>GRP Records</label>
	<rating>5</rating>
	<comments>Nothing.</comments>
	<song>
		<title>Indian Summer</title>
		<clipid>rippindi</clipid>
		<composer>R. Freeman</composer>
		<length>2:00</length>
	</song>
</album>

And here's my XSL document:

Code:

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

<xsl:template match="/">
	<font face="arial" size="2">
		<b>Artist:</b>  <xsl:value-of select="album/artist" /><br />
		<b>Title:</b>  <xsl:value-of select="album/title" /><br />
		<b>Year:</b>  <xsl:value-of select="album/year" /><br />
		<b>Label:</b>  <xsl:value-of select="album/label" /><br />
		<b>Comments:</b>  <xsl:value-of select="album/comments" /><br />
		<b>Song Title:</b> <xsl:value-of select="album/song/title" /><br/>
		<a href="<xsl:value-of select="album/song/clipid" />"mp3 clip</a> <--[this obviously won't work--it's just an example of what I'm trying to do]
	</font>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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Last edited by marron79 : January 6th, 2003 at 10:07 AM.

January 6th, 2003, 01:35 PM

MJEggertson

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Define a space in a dtd.

Code:

<!ENTITY nbsp " ">

For defining anchors, use something like this:

Code:

<xsl:element name="a">
  <xsl:attribute name="href">
    <xsl:value-of select="album/song/title" />
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

January 6th, 2003, 11:21 PM

marron79

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Thanks, but the link thing doesn't work. It doesn't display anything.

January 7th, 2003, 12:58 PM

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Put some content in the link.

Code:

<xsl:element name="a">
  <xsl:attribute name="href">
    <xsl:value-of select="album/song/clipid" />
  </xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:value-of select="album/song/title" />
</xsl:element>

Last edited by MJEggertson : January 7th, 2003 at 01:00 PM.

January 7th, 2003, 01:52 PM

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It worked! Thanks!!

February 7th, 2004, 12:07 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by MJEggertson
Define a space in a dtd.

Code:

<!ENTITY nbsp " ">

finally, I can add multiple spaces!

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