Tags as text in XML elements

janise · August 29th, 2004, 05:25 AM

I use the xsl by embedding it to xml with this line:
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="personals.xsl" ?>

This is the xml code fragment: http://private.livas.lv/jaanise/xml-code.png.
This is the document when viewed in IE: http://private.livas.lv/jaanise/xml-xsl.png.
This is the document without the embbed xsl when viewed in IE: http://private.livas.lv/jaanise/xml-plain.png.

You see - I would like an image to appear instead of the code (and the same with link and line break codes I have further).

Thanks,
Janis

Birger · August 29th, 2004, 06:46 AM

If what you want is to show a picture in your html page, you can use this:

<personals>
  <kategorija>
    <biedrs>
      <foto><img src="d:\test1.jpg"/></foto>
      <niks>test</niks>
    </biedrs>
  </kategorija>
</personals>

In your xsl, use '..copy of..' like this:

<html>
<body>
<table border="1"><tr>
  <td><xsl:copy-of select="personals/kategorija/biedrs/foto"/></td>
  <td><xsl:value-of select="personals/kategorija/biedrs/niks"/></td>
</tr></table>
</body>
</html>

janise · August 29th, 2004, 08:25 AM

Thank you very much, it works! :D

Sorry, joe, for as a beginner I apparently didn't ask the right questions...

Janis

joefawcett · August 30th, 2004, 10:43 AM

I'm glad it's fixed, but you did ask how to put plain text in between text and I suggested CDATA. So when you write:

Code:

<foto><![CDATA[<img...

Then the <img is not markup it's just text. remolve the CDATA deliters if yoou need to transform it via xslt.

--

Joe (Co-author Beginning XML, 3rd edition)

Biology Girl · January 2nd, 2007, 05:29 AM

I realize this post is dated, but it answered an important question I had: how to embed a reference to an image in XML.

I have another question: Referring to the text stated by Birger, that is,

<html>
<body>
<table border="1"><tr>
<td><xsl:copy-of select="personals/kategorija/biedrs/foto"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="personals/kategorija/biedrs/niks"/></td>
</tr></table>
</body>
</html>

how would one write it using a template call?

One more question: Am I the only one that finds templates somewhat mysterious in their operation?

Biology Girl · January 2nd, 2007, 06:29 AM

Sorry, but I just now realized that my question probably belongs in the XSLT forum.

mhkay · January 2nd, 2007, 06:45 AM

>how would one write it using a template call?

You could, if you wanted, replace

<xsl:value-of select="personals/kategorija/biedrs/niks"/>

with

<xsl:apply-templates select="personals/kategorija/biedrs/niks"/>

and

<xsl:template match="niks">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

>Am I the only one that finds templates somewhat mysterious in their operation?

No, it's a common learning problem, especially for programmers coming from a more structured environment without previous experience of text processing. It applies also to other event-based programming models, for example GUI programming and SAX parsing applications. Programmers like to be in control, they like to call the system, not have the system call them. But event-based (or rule-based) programming is a very powerful model when you don't know in advance what the order of events is going to be, or how it might change in the future: that's why it works particularly well with semi-structured data.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference