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April 14th, 2008, 05:58 AM

stevanicus

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XSL date

Hi there,

is it possible to show a certain part of an xml date with xsl?

ie.

Code:

<MONDAY>
<TASK>GO TO DOCTORS</TASK>
</MONDAY>
<TUESDAY>
<TASK>WALK THE DOG</TASK>
</TUESDAY>

xsl.

Code:

if tuesday... show - task (walk the dog)

could anyone give me a small code snippet, so i get the jist of it.

Thanks

Steve

April 14th, 2008, 07:44 AM

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If you have XML roughly like this...

Code:

<WRAPPER>
	<DAYOFWEEK>TUESDAY</DAYOFWEEK>
...
	<MONDAY>
		<TASK>GO TO DOCTORS</TASK>
	</MONDAY>
	<TUESDAY>
		<TASK>WALK THE DOG</TASK>
	</TUESDAY>
</WRAPPER>

Then you could use the following XSL (untested)

Code:

...
<td> Your task today is 
                                        <xsl:choose>
                                          <xsl:when test="/WRAPPER/DAYOFWEEK = 'MONDAY'">
                                            <xsl:value-of select='/WRAPPER/MONDAY/TASK'/>
                                          </xsl:when>
                                          ...
                                          <xsl:when test="/WRAPPER/DAYOFWEEK = 'SUNDAY'">
                                            <xsl:value-of select='/WRAPPER/SUNDAY/TASK'/>
                                          </xsl:when>
                                        </xsl:choose>
</td>
...

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April 14th, 2008, 09:11 AM

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Thanks,

but how will it know when it is monday? just to show monday?

steve

April 14th, 2008, 02:44 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stevanicus

Thanks,

but how will it know when it is monday? just to show monday?

steve

You need to supply that information in the XML ...

Code:

<WRAPPER>
<DAYOFWEEK>TUESDAY</DAYOFWEEK>
...

April 14th, 2008, 05:28 PM

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heya,

thanks for your help... but i dont get it haha.

I have an xml with mulitple 'tasks' for each day of the week. and i would like to only display the tasks for the current day.

thanks again

steve

April 14th, 2008, 05:31 PM

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this is how far i got so far

xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<WRAP>
<DOW>
<DAY>1</DAY>
<TASK>Doctors</TASK>
<DAY>TWO</DAY>
<TASK>Walk the Dog</TASK>
</DOW>
<DOW>
<DAY>2</DAY>
<TASK>Doctors</TASK>
<DAY>TWO</DAY>
<TASK>Walk the Dog</TASK>
</DOW>
</WRAP>

xsl

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

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

  <body>
	<table>
      <xsl:for-each select="WRAP/DOW">
	<xsl:choose>
          <xsl:when test="DAY = '1'">
          <xsl:value-of select='TASK'/>
          </xsl:when>
        </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:for-each>
	</table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

but where

Code:

<xsl:when test="DAY = '1'">

im trying(only way i know) is to do something like this

Code:

<script>
var current_date = new Date();
var today = current_date.getDay();
</script>
...
<xsl:when test="DAY = today">

thanks

steve

April 15th, 2008, 01:11 PM

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Whatever you're using to process the XSLT should have the date in it. PHP? C#?
If you're processing the XML directly linking to the XSLT with a processing instruction, then you'd have to use either a javascript or XSLT 2.0 solution.

eg fn:current-dateTime()
http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp#datetime

April 17th, 2008, 06:53 PM

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heya,

thanks for your info...

i managed to get the following. but stuck with makeing the today variable global inorder to use it in my <when test>

Code:

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

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
  <link media="all" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="thecss.css" />
    <script language="JavaScript">
      var cDate = new Date();
      var today = cDate.getDay();
      <xsl:variable name="tday">today</xsl:variable>
      alert(<xsl:value-of select='$tday' />);
    </script>
  <div class="stitle">Schedule</div>
  <xsl:for-each select="SCHEDULE/DOW">
    <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="DAY = $tday"> <!-- tday out of scope -->
      <div class="date">
        <xsl:value-of select="DATE" />
      </div>
      <div class="schedule">
      <xsl:for-each select="SHOW">
      <div>
        <div class="stime">
          <xsl:value-of select="STIME" /> -
        </div>
        <div class="etime">
          <xsl:value-of select="ETIME" />
        </div>
        <div class="title">
          <xsl:value-of select="TITLE" />
        </div>
        <div class="description">
          <xsl:value-of select="DESCRIPTION" />
        </div>
      <br />
      </div>
      </xsl:for-each>
      </div>
    </xsl:when>
    </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

any ideas?

thanks

steve

April 19th, 2008, 12:26 AM

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I needed that also, thanks.

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April 19th, 2008, 10:48 AM

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As stated in the other forum
<xsl:variable name="tday">today</xsl:variable>
Will give you a variable of string today. It will not provide the javascript variable value.

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April 19th, 2008, 10:54 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jkmyoung

As stated in the other forum
<xsl:variable name="tday">today</xsl:variable>
Will give you a variable of string today. It will not provide the javascript variable value.

it does work for me,
when the alert function calls the value of tday.. it prints a number (day of the week)

But how can i make that a global variable?

thanks

steve

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