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September 19th, 2004, 10:34 PM

batookee

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xsl within xml file

can an xsl template be within the xml file or does it have to be an external file?

September 22nd, 2004, 05:17 AM

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Yes, you can do so. It is called an embedded stylesheet. For the gory details (and an example) see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt.html#section-Embedding-Stylesheets

Here is an example that works with most browsers.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="#getItHere" type="text/xsl"?>

<!DOCTYPE children [
<!ATTLIST xsl:stylesheet
   id        ID    #REQUIRED
   xmlns:xsl CDATA #FIXED "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   version   CDATA #FIXED "1.0">
]>

<children>

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
   <head>
       <title>Names of my children</title>
   </head>
   <body>
       <h1><center>My Children's Names</center></h1>
       <ul>
          <xsl:apply-templates select="/children/child"/>
       </ul>
   </body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="/children/child">
         <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

   <child>Ciara</child>
   <child>Kenneth</child>
</children>

September 22nd, 2004, 06:09 AM

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I read somewhere that embeded stylesheets don't work in IE 6. Is this true?

September 23rd, 2004, 09:00 PM

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Yes and no. The sample code I provided partially works
with IE6 (try it with IE6 and FireFox) and would probably
work if I spent the time to figure out what is going on.

September 25th, 2004, 10:01 PM

batookee

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Hi,
Yeah the code you gave me works but when I tryied to intergrate it with my own code... god only knows what happened. (Can you tell I don't know a whole lot about this)

Maybe you can point me in the right direction

Here's my XSL sheet, its pretty simple:

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> 
<xsl:for-each select="collection/artist"> 
	<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
<xsl:for-each select="album">
<ul><li>
   <xsl:value-of select="." />
</li></ul>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each> 
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

And here's what my XML looks like

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="simple.xsl" ?>
<collection>
<artist name="AC/DC">
<album>74 Jailbreak</album>
<album>Back In Black</album>
</artist>
<artist name="Aerosmith">
<album>Honkin' On Bobo</album>
<album>Young Lust-The Aerosmith Anthology</album>
</artist>
<artist name="Bachman Turner Overdrive">
<album>Not Fragile</album>
</artist>
.
.
.
.
.
</collection>

Can you possibly help me put them together, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks

September 27th, 2004, 01:19 PM

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PHP Code:


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

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="#stylesheet"?>

<!DOCTYPE doc [

<!ATTLIST xsl:stylesheet

id ID #REQUIRED>

]>

<collection>

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

    <xsl:output method="html"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <html>

            <body>

                <xsl:for-each select="collection/artist">

                    <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>

                    <xsl:for-each select="album">

                        <ul><li>

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

                        </li></ul>

                    </xsl:for-each>

                </xsl:for-each>

            </body>

        </html>

        </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>



    <artist name="AC/DC">

        <album>74 Jailbreak</album>

        <album>Back In Black</album>

    </artist>

    <artist name="Aerosmith">

        <album>Honkin' On Bobo</album>

        <album>Young Lust-The Aerosmith Anthology</album>

    </artist>

    <artist name="Bachman Turner Overdrive">

        <album>Not Fragile</album>

    </artist>

</collection>

Looks like the main thing missing was the <xsl:output method="html"/> part :D

Of course IE6 is havin some issues with it but it looks great in FIREFOX

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