Ignore this post...its crap!

clandestine · May 31st, 2005, 04:43 AM

Apologies about this post...I would delete it if I could but I can't!

The real question is here:
http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31176

mhkay · May 31st, 2005, 05:18 AM

It's not clear why you are having difficulty with this. If you show us your attempt so far, we can perhaps tell you where you are going wrong.

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

clandestine · May 31st, 2005, 05:23 AM

Ahh, wasn't quite sure if you wanted to see my html or not!
I guess I figured that the problem was more to do with the DFD than anything else! Apologies!

<HTML>
<BODY>
<XML ID="dsoBookList" SRC="test.xml"></XML>

<TABLE DATASRC="#dsoBookList" border="1" CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=100%>
<THEAD>
<TR>
     <TH ALIGN="LEFT">Title
     </TH>
     <TH ALIGN="LEFT">Author(s)
     </TH>
</TR>
</THEAD>
<TBODY>
<TR>
     <TD valign="top"><SPAN DATAFLD="TITLE"></SPAN> </TD>
          <TD>
               <TABLE DATASRC="#dsoBookList" DATAFLD="AUTHORLIST" CELLSPACING=0>
                    <TBODY>
                         <TR>
                              <TD>
                                   <SPAN DATAFLD="FIRST_NAME">
                                   </SPAN> 
                                   <SPAN DATAFLD="LAST_NAME">
                                   </SPAN>
                              </TD>
                         </TR>
                    </TBODY>
               </TABLE>
          </TD>
     </TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

It is by grace we are saved!

mhkay · May 31st, 2005, 05:56 AM

I rather assumed that you were having difficulty writing the XSLT code, and that's what you wanted help with.

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

clandestine · May 31st, 2005, 06:38 AM

Let me start by saying that I am an Idiot!

Now that we have that out of the way maybe I can start again! Unfortunately I have confused myself with all of my testing!

Put the below code into an xml file called test.xml

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE PERSONS [
  <!ELEMENT PERSONS (ITEM+)>
  <!ELEMENT ITEM (TITLE, NAME*)>
  <!ELEMENT TITLE (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT NAME (#PCDATA)>
]>

<PERSONS>
     <ITEM>
          <TITLE>Hege Refsnes </TITLE>
      <NAME>Martin</NAME>
      <NAME>Williams</NAME>
      <NAME>Cheryl</NAME>
      <NAME>Caprialdi</NAME>
     </ITEM>
</PERSONS>

Now create a html file with this in:
<HTML>
<BODY>
<XML ID="dsoBookList" SRC="test.xml"></XML>

<TABLE DATASRC="#dsoBookList" border="1" CELLSPACING=0 WIDTH=100%>
<THEAD>
<TR>
     <TH ALIGN="LEFT">Title
     </TH>
     <TH ALIGN="LEFT">Author(s)
     </TH>
</TR>
</THEAD>
<TBODY>
<TR>
     <TD valign="top"><SPAN DATAFLD="TITLE"></SPAN> </TD>
          <TD>
               <TABLE DATASRC="#dsoBookList" DATAFLD="NAME" CELLSPACING=0>
                    <TBODY>
                         <TR>
                              <TD>
                                   <SPAN DATAFLD="NAME">
                                   </SPAN> 
                              </TD>
                         </TR>
                    </TBODY>
               </TABLE>
          </TD>
     </TR>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>

The output gives you the one row showing the title with 4 blank rows where the names should be! I guess my problem is that it knows how many names there are but its not showing their value!

It is by grace we are saved!