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Roger, David,
One of the features that the XSLT 1.0 spec provides
to cater to the first-time-HTML-savvy user, is the
verbosely-named "literal-result element as stylesheet"
capability. Stylesheets that use this capability
are often called "single-root-template" stylesheets
or stylesheets written in the "simple form".
Use of this could further improve on David's smooth-slope
introduction to XSLT for first-time users. It's a technique
that I use for simple HTML and XML transformations in my
"Building Oracle XML Applications" book.
That is, instead of writing:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT bgcolor="{member/favoriteColor}">
Welcome <xsl:value-of select="member/name"/>!
</FONT>
<TABLE>
<TR><TH>Type</TH><TH>Number</TH></TR>
<xsl:for-each select="member/phone">
<TR>
<TD><xsl:value-of select="@type"/></TD>
<TD><xsl:value-of select="."/></TD>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
You can write:
<HTML xsl:version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Welcome</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FONT bgcolor="{member/favoriteColor}">
Welcome <xsl:value-of select="member/name"/>!
</FONT>
<TABLE>
<TR><TH>Type</TH><TH>Number</TH></TR>
<xsl:for-each select="member/phone">
<TR>
<TD><xsl:value-of select="@type"/></TD>
<TD><xsl:value-of select="."/></TD>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
And you can teach people that the steps to
get started are to:
(1) Get an HTML template from your web design folks
(2) Use Dave Raggett's "tidy" with the "-asxml" option
to convert the HTML to well-formed HTML
(3) Add an "xsl:version" to the <HTML> root element
(4) Begin "peppering" in <xsl:value-of>, attribute value
templates, and <xsl:for-each>'s to suit.
______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
BC4J & XSQL Servlet Development Teams, Oracle Rep to XSL WG
Author "Building Oracle XML Applications", O'Reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orxmlapp/
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