Hi Stanev,
I created the files as suggested in your post and tried to execute it. But I am getting the following error.
Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; MS-RTC LM 8)
Timestamp: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:14:04 UTC
Message: Number parameter expected.
.*<--
Line: 33
Char: 5
Code: 0
URI:
file:///C:/Test/driver.html
The xml file is mylist.xml
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<list>
<item>
<element1>item 1 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 1 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 2 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 2 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 3 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 3 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 4 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 4 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 5 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 5 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 6 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 6 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 7 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 7 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 8 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 8 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 9 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 9 - element 2</element2>
</item>
<item>
<element1>item 10 - element 1</element1>
<element2>item 10 - element 2</element2>
</item>
</list>
XSLT file is mylist.xslt
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/xml-controller/xml-doc-name">
<xsl:variable name="xml-doc-name" select=".*"/>
<xsl:variable name="start" select="@start"/>
<xsl:variable name="limit" select="@limit"/>
<xsl:variable name="end" select="$start + $limit - 1"/>
<xsl:variable name="xml-doc" select="document($xml-doc-name)/list/item[position() >= $start and position() '<= $end]"/>
<html>
<body>
<h2>dynamic XML+XSL example</h2>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:if test="$start - $limit >= 1">
<a href="?start={$start - $limit}&limit={$limit}">prev</a>
</xsl:if>
</td>
<td align="right">
<a href="?start={$end + 1} &limit={$limit}">next</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="#CCCCCC">
<th>Element 1</th>
<th>Element 2</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="$xml-doc">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="element1"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="element1"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
html file is : driver.html
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<html>
<head>
<title>Paging mechanism using XML+XSLT</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- get the URL upto the page name .pop.split("?")[0] >
url_root = this.document.location.href
alert("url_root is : " + url_root);
page_name = url_root.split("/").pop().split("?")[0];
url_root = url_root.substring(0, url_root.indexOf(page_name));
<!-- get URL argements, have defaults if arguments are missing >
var args=getURLArguments(document.location.href);
var start = args['start'] ? args['start'] : 1;
var limit = args['limit'] ? args['limit'] : 3;
<!-- build the XML controller >
xml_text = '<?xml version="1.0"?>';
xml_text += '<xml-controller>';
xml_text += ' <xml-doc-name start="' + start + '" limit="' + limit + '">' + url_root + 'c:/Test/mylist.xml</xml-doc-name>';
xml_text += '</xml-controller>';
var xml = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xml.async=false;
xml.loadXML(xml_text);
<!-- load the XSL >
var xsl = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xsl.async = false;
xsl.load("c:/Test/mylist.xsl");
<!-- XSL transform >
document.write(xml.transformNode(xsl));
<!-- return a map of URL's arguments >
function getURLArguments(url) {
alert("URL is :" +url);
var args = {};
query_str = url.substring(url.indexOf('?') + 1);
var args_arr = query_str.split('&');
for(var i = 0; i < args_arr.length; i++) {
var arg_arr = args_arr[i].split('=');
args[arg_arr[0]] = unescape(arg_arr[1]);
}
return args;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Regards
Suprakash
Pagination using xsl, xml and javascript
