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 Hi All,
I have searched the newsgroup archives and not found anything relevant to my
question, so here goes...
I am writing a php report generation application that will take an xml file
as input, substitute some real variables for placeholders and create the
report. I was thinking of using xsl to help me with this task. Here is what
I have so far:
XML Config file:
<html>
<head><title>Test Title</title></head>
<body><table><tr><td colspan="2"><hsn:replace
with="tag">title</hsn:replace></td></tr>
<hsn:foreach param="devices">
<tr><td><hsn:var name="devices"/></td></tr>
</hsn:foreach>
</body>
</html>
So in the html (xml) I have tow tags <hsn:replace> and <hsn:foreach>.
The <hsn:replace> is used to replace the complete ("<hsn:replace
with="tag">title</hsn:replace>") tag with the CDATA of the tag defined in
the hsn:replace CDATA. So replace the complete hsn:replace tag with "Test
Title".
The <hsn:foreach> tag is used to iterate over a list of things(devices in
this case) and substitute the current one in the CDATA of the hsn:foreach
tag. So if there were 3 devices(test1,test2,test3) the output I would like
would be:
<tr><td>test1</td></tr>
<tr><td>test2</td></tr>
<tr><td>test3</td></tr>
for that section.
Do you think XSL could help me in any of these tasks? I assume I will have
my php scripts write some intermediate output (xml) in which the hsn:* tags
a changed to something more useful for XSL. Then run the intermediate file
through the XSL processor w/ a stylesheet to get the final output.
Is any of this possible?
Thanks so much for your input!
Glenn
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