> I thought you could pass 
> parameters into the xslt and use it within conditional 
> statments.  I guess I was wrong.

No, you were right.

I'm afraid I haven't followed the thread (subject lines like this don't grab
my attention) so I don't know how you got the impression you were wrong.
Some misunderstanding somewhere. Perhaps you should start again with a
single question and a simple example.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


  Thanks for the help I will 
> just keep tring to put something together that meets my 
> needs.  If anyone else has any other ideas about this your 
> help would be appreciated.  
> 
> Charles Knell seemed to think that it was possible but I am 
> not as wise as him so I don't know if it is.
> 
> Brant
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, December 8, 2006 3:55:40 PM
> Subject: Re:  Need Help
> 
> 
> (please see the list posting guidelines about choosing 
> subject lines that help the archives later)
> 
> 
> > I want to transform it to this
> > ..
> > Is this possible?  
> 
> not exactly as your requested format isn't well formed (<a> 
> elements not
> closed) but  essentially I suspect you want something like
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:template match="menu">
>   <ul>
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>   </ul>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="item">
>   <li>
>     <a href="{@url}"><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></a>
>     <xsl:if test="item">
>       <ul>
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>       </ul>
>     </xsl:if>
>   </li>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> which produces
> 
> <ul>
>    <li>
>       <a href="#">Home</a>
>    </li>
>    <li>
>       <a href="#">My Stuff</a>
>       <ul>
>          <li>
>             <a href="#">Backgrounds</a>
>          </li>
>          <li>
>             <a href="#">Flyers</a>
>          </li>
>         <li>
>             <a href="#">Posters</a>
>          </li>
>       </ul>
>    </li>
>    <li>
>       <a href="#">Portfolio</a>
>       <ul>
>          <li>
>             <a href="#">Backgrounds</a>
>          </li>
>          <li>
>             <a href="#">Flyers</a>
>          </li>
>          <li>
>             <a href="#">Posters</a>
>          </li>
>          <li>
>             <a href="#">More Information</a>
>             <ul>
>                <li>
>                   <a href="#">Resume</a>
>                </li>
>                <li>
>                   <a href="#">Contact Me</a>
>                </li>
>             </ul>
>          </li>
>       </ul>
>    </li>
> </ul>
> 
> 
> > Also I would like to apply CSS Classes to certain nodes 
> depending if 
> > they are selected or not.
> 
> selected by what, where?
> 
> 
> >   And can I hide child nodes if the p=arent node is not selected?
> 
> xslt doesn't interact with the browser at all (even if you 
> are using a client side xslt that's in the browser) it just 
> generates an html page that is then rendered, so if you know 
> what css and/or javascript you need to get whatever dynamic 
> effect that you want, then you can generate that code in 
> xslt, but xslt doesn't "know" anyting about css or javascript 
> (or html) it's just generating an element tree, and the 
> javascript is just text as fas as xslt is concerned.
> 
> David
> 
> 
>  
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