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fogofogo · November 22nd, 2005, 11:36 AM

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone knew if you can use xslt to control how man records are printed from an xml page to a html page. For example, I have a xml page with 50 news stories, and I only want to pull 5 headlines or so and list them as HTML in an ASP page.

Is this possible to do?

THanks folks

John

mhkay · November 22nd, 2005, 12:01 PM

Yes, you want something like

<xsl:apply-templates select="story[position() < 6]"/>

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

fogofogo · November 22nd, 2005, 12:18 PM

Thanks for getting back Michael. I really appreciate it.

I was just wondering about the positioning of the code. is this right:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" standalone="yes" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="no"/> 

<xsl:apply-templates select="story[position() &lt; 6]"/>

<xsl:template match="InfoStreamResults">
<xsl:apply-templates select="Article"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Article">
<A><xsl:attribute name="HREF">ItemPage.asp?ItemID=<xsl:value-of select="@ID"/></xsl:attribute>
<B><xsl:value-of select="Heading"/></B></A>
<br/> 
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Do I have to change the Story to a relevant tag? And does the 6 stand for the abount of headlines?

Thanks again

John