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> My transformation environment --- sending XML with a > stylesheet PI to the browser Not exactly my favorite way to do it, esp not for beginners. Ah well, ;). > My XML file has three sections of data, which I > transform into three tables using XSL style sheet: > > Table 1 > Table 2 > Table 3 > > I want to display Table 1 by default and let the user > choose to view that data in next two tables by > clicking Table 2 or Table 3. > Is this possible to do by adding JavaScript in my XSL > style sheet? Hmmm, there's really a couple of ways to take this question. 1) You can create a html page via xslt that has all three tables. You would then use the css display/javascript trick as you would in any other html page. Some googling of javascript, css, and display should get you that info. 2) If you had a server-side transform it might be easier to pass it in via a parameter in the url which in turn is used as a parameter for the stylesheet return an html page that only contains the necessary table. 3) That said, there are some browser-specific ways to do this I think. If I recall correctly, there's a way in IE to read in a foreign xml document, transform it via xslt, and then dump the results into a window. You could then pretty easily do something similar to option two but on the client-side. Notice it would be browser dependent (not just if it was IE or not, but what parser/processor that version of IE is using). Notice this is still not an "XSLT page". It would be showing an HTML page that has the capability to use javascript to replace it's own contents with the results of a transformation applied to the source XML. Notice in all the cases XSLT is used to transform XML content into an html page. To it javascript is just more text to generate. The user's browser is manipulating the html results of the transformation. If you really need to use client-side transformation, you might want to either do things similarily to method 1 or research into systems like Sarissa (don't know much of the details there). In order to pick what table would be outputted, you'll pass in a parameter to the stylesheet. Poking around the FAQ and the archives of this list should give you some ideas on how parameters work. My usual recommendation for people is not to learn XSLT on the browser. This isn't necessarily condemning ever using the browser transforms, but it seems difficult for newbies to understand what is happening at what point when they do use browsers. It also makes debugging rather painful. Jon Gorman > If yes, would someone be kind enough to send me an > example, or point me to one? > > Thanks, > Gowri > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com
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