Re: Trouble creating a table with multiple named temp

Hi, Max,

Welcome to the list.

I can't say much about your problem without a better view of your XML
structure. I THINK the problem comes from having a template that matches
directory/staffTitle/Position and another that matches directory. When the
processor hits the directory template, it won't apply the other template
without an apply-templates command. So, you can try adding
<xsl:apply-templates select="staffTitle/Position"/> within the directory
template.

Note that I didn't say anything about the names of the templates. A great
deal of XSL processing can be done without named templates, and I bet yours
is one of those cases. The match and apply method works very well and meets
many needs.

Anyway, please post a small but complete XML source file and a sample of
your desired output. Then we can help you get to a solution. Oftentimes,
folks ask a question about a fragment of their XSL, only to return later
with more questions because they should have shown us a bigger sample to
start with.

Happy XSLing.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Bronsema" <max.bronsema@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:51 PM
Subject:  Trouble creating a table with multiple named templates


Hi all,

First post. The problem I am having is creating a table using
templates. Currently my named templates out put the results in a table
format. I would like to have a master template that outputs all the
data at once, thus I have control of what the table looks like. I
currently have three XML documents merged together by ASP into one XML
document with the root node of directory. From this XML document I
have been able to pull out all the data I need using templates
specific to the nodes I am trying to acess. For example:

<xsl:template name="staffTitle" match="//directory/staffTitle/Position">
        <table>
                <tbody>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="Phone"/></td>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="pEmail"/></td>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="Title"/></td>
                </tbody>
        </table>
</xsl:template>

Where I am running into trouble is when I try to create the master
template to include all of the named templates information. I have
experimented using a template such as:

<xsl:template name="master" match="//directory">
<table>
        <tbody>
                <tr>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="dptFull"/></td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                        <td>Location: <xsl:value-of select="Location"/></td>
                        <td>Phone: <xsl:value-of select="Phone" /></td>
                        <td>Fax: <xsl:value-of select="Fax"/></td>
                        <td>Box: <xsl:value-of select="oBox"/></td>
                </tr>
etc...

but this does not return the data in the nodes. The real question is,
is it possible to combine these named templates into a template that
can access all of their data? The master template being a table
structure using <xsl:value-of select=""/> as the way to acess data. It
works well with my named templates acessing specific parts of the XML
document. What is the hangup with going to a larger scale? I know
nesting is not a option and have read some info about using Modes but
that does not seem like it will work for what I am trying to do. I am
getting a book on Wednesday but am hoping for some help from this
wealth of knowledge. Please ask for more details or more code if that
is what you need.

Thank you,

I appreciate the help.

Max Bronsema