Re: Making Link in text

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Subject: Re: Making Link in text
From: Jonas Mellin <jonas.mellin@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:33:36 +0200

Senthilukvelaan wrote, On 2008-09-12 09:41:

Have a difficulty in producing the expected output.
Any pointer would help.
Input

<P>Please click <LINK>http://www.google.com</LINK>
<LINK_TEXT>
Google
</LINK_TEXT>
on the link below or copy and paste the address
onto your web browser's address window. Once you're on the web page, |
you will be instructed
</P>

xslt

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:template match="P">
<P>
    <xsl:call-template name="markup">
          <xsl:with-param name="content" select="." />
      <xsl:with-param name="link" select="//LINK" />
      <xsl:with-param name="text" select="//LINK_TEXT" />
    </xsl:call-template>
  </P>
</xsl:template>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="P" name="markup"  >
  <xsl:param name="link" />
    <xsl:param name="text" />
  <a href="{$link}">
  <xsl:value-of select="$text" />
   </a>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The following does the transformation:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <body> <xsl:apply-templates/> </body> </html> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="LINK">
<a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following::LINK_TEXT[1]" mode="inLink"/>
</a>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="LINK_TEXT" mode="inLink">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="LINK_TEXT">
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

You seem to have a vague idea of how the XSLT processor works. Further, it is better to make the LINK and LINK_TEXT subelements of a common element such as LINKINFO element. For example, replace

<LINK>http://www.google.com</LINK>
<LINK_TEXT>
Google
</LINK_TEXT>

with

<LINKINFO>
<LINK>http://www.google.com</LINK>
<LINK_TEXT>
Google
</LINK_TEXT>
</LINKINFO>

Then, we can replace the ugly and not so robust templates for LINK and LINK_TEXT (template 3, 4 and 5) with

<xsl:template match="LINKINFO">
<a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="LINK"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="LINK_TEXT"/>
</a>
</xsl:template>

Note that I would choose different names for LINKINFO and LINK. For example, LINKINFO => LINK and LINK => REF

/Jonas

Desired output.

<html>
<body>
<P>Please click
<a href="http://www.google.com">
Google
</a>
on the link below or copy and paste the address
onto your web browser's address window. Once you're on the web page, |
you will be instructed
</P>
</body>
</html>

Thanks,
S

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Carpe Diem!
===
Jonas Mellin, Assistant Professor in Computer Science
School of Humanities and Informatics, Building E-2
University of Skvvde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skvvde, Sweden
Phone: +46 500 448321, Fax: +46 500 448399
Email: jonas.mellin@xxxxxx, URL: http://www.his.se/melj

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