Subject: RE: Dynamic Menu Using XSL
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:19:26 -0000
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Remember that XSLT is used to generate the target HTML page, and if you want
any interaction on that page, e.g. hiding things when other things are
selected, that's purely a question of generating the HTML that exhibits that
behaviour.
So it's a two-stage process:
(a) design the (dynamic) HTML that you want to display
(b) design the XSLT that generates it from your source XML.
I get the impression you haven't separated the two stages. It's a good idea
not to start on (b) until you have completed (a).
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brant Schroeder [mailto:brantschr@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 December 2006 18:01
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Dynamic Menu Using XSL
>
> I am trying to create a dynamic menu using XML and XSLT.
> Here is my XML
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <?xml-stylesheet
> type="text/xsl" href="mymenu.xsl"?>
>
>
> <menu>
> <item id = "1" url="default.aspx" title="Home"></item>
> <item id = "2" url="default.aspx?id=Training"
> title="Training">
> <item id = "3"
> url="default.aspx?id=Search_Training" title="Search Training"></item>
> <item id = "4"
> url="default.aspx?id=Post_Training" title="Post
> Training"></item>
> </item>
> <item id = "7" url="default.aspx?id=Other_Training"
> title="Other Training">
> <item id = "8"
> url="default.aspx?id=Search_Other_Training" title="Search
> Other Training"></item>
> <item id = "9"
> url="default.aspx?id=Post_Other_Training" title="Post Other
> Training"></item>
> </item>
> <item id = "11" url="default.aspx?id=About_Us"
> title="About Us">
> <item id = "12" url="default.aspx?id=Location"
> title="Location">
> <item id = "13"
> url="default.aspx?id=Map" title="View Map"></item>
> </item>
> </item>
> </menu>I am using the following XSLT to generate my HTML
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>
>
>
> <xsl:param name="URL"/>
>
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
> <xsl:template match="menu">
> <html>
> <body>
> <ul>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </ul>
> </body>
> </html>
> </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>
>
> I would like to hide the child menu if the parent menu is not
> selected. I would also like the parent menu to be expanded
> if a child menu is selected. I am passing the url as a
> parameter (ex: default.aspx, default.aspx?id=About_us) this
> matches the URL attribute of the item. I am new to XSLLT
> and would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks
> Brant
>
>
>
>
>
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