Re: Output one record at a time

first off you need to pass param into your transform ( each processor does
it different, check their doc )
for example with instant saxon your index is a matched pair after everything
else

saxon test.xml test.xsl index=1
                                      |
                                   you see


<xsl:param/> is the instruction with which is how you get at it from within
your stylesheet.

so something like this

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method = "html" encoding="Windows-1252" />

 <xsl:param name="index" select="1"/>

 <xsl:template match="employees">

 <xsl:apply-templates select="employee[position()=$index]"/>

 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="employee">

do some format output of employee record
like the name: <xsl:value-of select="name"/>

 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

there are other ways of doing this, note that I have a default value for the
parameter, if you were 'actually' using it...you may want to have it like
<xsl:param name="index"/> ... but i always like a default value.

cheers, jim fuller


----- Original Message -----
From: "Agaram Madhavaraju" <madhav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 7:52 AM
Subject:  Output one record at a time


> I have an xml file like this
>
> <employees>
>   <employee>
>     <name>
>       abc
>     </name>
>     <department>
>       admin
>     </department>
>   </employee>
>   <employee>
>     <name>
>       hij
>     </name>
>     <department>
>       finance
>     </department>
>   </employee>
>   ...
>   ...
> </employees>
>
> I want to output one employee detail at a time(in HTML), using the record
number(i.e the index of employee record in the xml file) as the input
parameter.
>
> How can i do that?
>
> Thanks
> -madhavaraju
>
>
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