Passing in a node value

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Subject: Passing in a node value
From: Gregory Propf <gpropf@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:50:56 -0400

I am trying to create an XML-XSL based menu system for a website. I want to be able to designate some menu items as "expanded" and others as not. The idea is that a user clicks a menu link and the frame reloads with that menu node expanded to show the subitems. I have XML that looks like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Menuitem Name="Root_item" expanded="false"> <Menuitem Name="sub_item1" expanded="false">subitem1</Menuitem> <Menuitem Name="sub_item2" expanded="false">subitem2</Menuitem> <Menuitem Name="sub_item3" expanded="false">subitem3</Menuitem> <Menuitem Name="sub_item4" expanded="false">subitem4 <Menuitem Name="sub_sub_item1" expanded="false">sub_sub_item1</Menuitem> <Menuitem Name="sub_sub_item2" expanded="false">sub_sub_item2</Menuitem> <Menuitem Name="sub_sub_item3" expanded="false">sub_sub_item3</Menuitem> </Menuitem> </Menuitem>

The idea is that I want to set the expanded values to true dynamically as people hit the site and want to see the subnodes. I'll probably be using Xalan called from a servlet (Java). I initially thought I could just create a hash with node names as keys. Apparently XSL doesn't support hashes though. Anyone know how to do this or something that will be equivalent. Also Can anyone recommend a good xsl-xpath reference, preferable free and online.

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Passing in a node value Gregory Propf - Sun, 20 Apr 2003 15:46:37 -0400 (EDT) <= <Possible follow-ups> Passin, Tom - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:12:12 -0400 (EDT) Gregory Propf - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:33:37 -0400 (EDT) Gregory Propf - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:04:01 -0400 (EDT) Passin, Tom - Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:12:21 -0400 (EDT)

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