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 Think of your HTML as your stylsheet/template and instead of using <xdata> where you want the xlm to be inserted put <xsl:value-of select="driver[name = 'Schumacher']/date-of-birth" etc. Ciao Chris >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Hitchman, Andrew >Sent: 03 August 2000 09:40 >To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Evaluate a string to a node set? > > >Hi, > >To allow our HTML designers to concentrate on writing HTML with existing >tools >(like Dreamweaver) we are attempting to separate HTML presentation layout >from >XML data. > >So, out HTML designer would create team.html as below and use the tag ><xdata> >to reference the XML data provided by our application. The stylesheet uses >the XML >document as the root and includes the HTML. On matching the <xdata> element >in >the HTML document the XSLT processor substitutes the value from the XML >document >and for a named node this works fine (actually in the example >below it works >only by >virtue of the fact that the first name element is the team name). > >See end of message for an example of what I mean. > >But what we really need to be able to do is specify a path in the xdata >select attribute, >e.g. > > <xdata select="team/notes"> >or > <xdata select="driver[1]/name"> >or > <xdata select="driver[name = "Schumacher"]/date-of-birth"> > >and whilst > > <xsl:template match="xdata" mode="presentation"> > <xsl:variable name="this" select="."/> > <xsl:value-of select="$data//*[name(.) = $this/@select]/> > </xsl:template> > >will work where @select is limited to a node name, there doesn't seem to be >a way to match >a path represented as a string, for example (fictionally): > > <xsl:value-of select="$data//*[. = >node-set-matching-string($this/@select)]/> > >Is there something I'm missing? (FYI, I'm using Xalan). > >I know that this whole approach seems a bit daft given that XSLT >can convert >the XML >document into the HTML shown without any problem at all, but this >would mean >losing >the use of our visual development tools for creating the HTML. And moreover >this radical >split of presentation and data seems much more robust and maintainable than >direct >transformation from XML to HTML. > >Cheers, > >Andy Hitchman. > > >Example: >============ >team.html >------------------------- ><html> > <head> > <title>View Team <xdata select="name"/></title> > </head> > <body> > <h1>Team <xdata select="name"/></h1> > <xdata select="notes"/> > </body> ></html> > >team.xml >-------------------------- ><team> > <name>Ferrari</name> > <notes>Bla-bla-bla...</notes> > <driver> > <name>Schumacher</name> > <date-of-birth>1969-01-03</date-of-birth> > </driver> > <driver> > <name>Irvine</name> > <date-of-birth>1965-11-10</date-of-birth> > </driver> ></team> > > >fragment of team.xsl (with team.xml at the root document) >--------------------------- >... ><xsl:variable name="data" select="/"/> ><xsl:variable name="presentation" select="document("team.html")"/> > ><xsl:template match="/"> > <xsl:apply-templates/> ><xsl:template> > ><xsl:template match="team"> > <!-- Pass thru the html presentation --> > <xsl:apply-templates select="$presentation" mode="presentation"/> ></xsl:template> > ><!-- For xdata in presentation html, insert the value from the xml >document. >--> ><xsl:template match="xdata" mode="presentation"> > <xsl:variable name="this" select="."/> > <xsl:value-of select="$data//*[name(.) = $this/@select]/> ></xsl:template> > ><!-- For presentation html, pass thru unchanged. --> ><xsl:template match="@*|*" mode="presentation"> > <xsl:copy> > <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" mode="presentation"/> > </xsl:copy> ></xsl:template> >... > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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