RE: Using XPath expressions in modes

<xsl:param name="mode"/>
should be after 
<xsl:template match="page">

like -----
<xsl:template match="page">
<xsl:param name="mode"/>


Meltem



-----Original Message-----
From: William Bagby [mailto:williamb@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 24 April 2001 4:54 PM
To: XSL Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject:  Using XPath expressions in modes


This seems like a very basic question, but I wasn't able to locate the
answer to this on any FAQs....

I have a list of categories, and I would like it to be displayed differently
based on URL params:

XML-----------------------------------------


<page>
...
	<category-list>
		<category>...</category>
		<category>...</category>
		<category>...</category>
		<category>...</category>
		<category>...</category>
	</category-list>
...
</page>

XSL------------------------------------------

<xsl:param name="mode"/>

<xsl:template match="page">

	...
	<xsl:if test="$mode">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="category-list" mode="$mode"/>
	</xsl:if>
	<xsl:if test="not($mode)">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="category-list" mode="default"/>
	</xsl:if>
	...

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="category-list" mode="default">
	<!-- display as Table -->
	<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="200"
bgcolor="#000000">
		<xsl:for-each select="category">
			<tr><td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td></tr>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	</table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="category-list" mode="dropdown">
	<!-- display as dropdown list -->
	<form action=".." method="get">
	<select name="cat">
		<xsl:for-each select="category">
			<option value="{.}"><xsl:value-of
select="."/></option>
	  </xsl:for-each>
	</select>
	<input type="submit"/>
	</form>
</xsl:template>

etc, etc....


Using $mode doesn't seem to work.  Is it even legal?  Or is there a better
way of doing this?

Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is in the FAQ already.

William.

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