Re: How to display XML data partially

Hi Jeni,
First of all, thanks for all the effort you put in
answering questions.
I am generating the page dynamically. More clearly I
wanted to define an xsl parameter startNode pointing
to the first of a 10 device block. Then incremet it by
10 everytime a user clicks a "Next" button or
hyperlink.
However I was not able to increment the parameter.
This is something similar to what you were saying

>>pass the stylesheet the index of
>>     the first device to occur on the page

Can you suggest me anything on how to increment the
parameter after clicking "Next"? I believe If I am
able to increment startNode then I could use the
sibling idea you have suggested to get the next 9
devices.
Best Regards,
Davut

--- Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Davut,
> 
> > I want to display those devices in an HTML page
> BUT 10 DEVICES AT A
> > TIME.
> 
> The first issue is how you are generating the HTML
> pages.  There are
> two ways that you could do it:
> 
>   * create the pages dynamically - pass the
> stylesheet the index of
>     the first device to occur on the page, and get
> it to create the
>     HTML page for the 10 devices starting from that
> one
>     
>   * create the pages statically - create all the
> pages in one big
>     transform, with each page holding 10 devices
> 
> I don't know which method you're using (dynamic
> transformation on
> request or static/batch transformation).  But
> whichever you use,
> you'll probably want to apply templates to only the
> first device to
> appear on a particular page, and then have a
> template that does
> something with that device and the next 9.
> 
> Given a device element as the current node, you can
> get the 10 devices
> starting from that one with:
> 
>   . | following-sibling::device[position() &lt; 10]
> 
> In other words, make a node set that consists of
> this node (.) and the
> following sibling device elements whose position
> (within the list of
> following sibling device elements) is less than 10.
> 
> So the template for a device should probably look
> something like:
> 
> <!-- only applied to the first device in a page -->
> <xsl:template match="device">
>    <xsl:for-each select=". |
> following-sibling::device
>                                 [position() &lt;
> 10]">
>       <!-- whatever output you want for the devices
> -->
>    </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Then it comes down to how you choose the device to
> apply templates to,
> which depends on how you're generating the page.
> 
> I hope that helps,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
> 
> 
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