Hi all.

Does anyone know if it is possible to call a template from a href. Or if not how to call a template from a users action through html?

I have a 3 xml out puts in which I would like to supply three links on the screen in html. When one link is clicked I want the one output to be invoked and if the user clicks on the other link, to call another template to invoke that data. And again if the third link is clicked for that template to be invoked displaying the xml 3 information. These templates are all seperate and I want the display to be seperate. I know how to code the if test statements jsut unsure on the code for the href call template..

<a href="{call-template name="user"}">user</a>
<a href="{call-template name="manager"}">manager</a>
<a href="{call-template name="dev"}">dev</a>

I know this is wrong but this is the bit of code that I need help on!
Anyone with any ideas?? Ill keep trying and let you know if I crack it!

Thanks in advance!

You've got the processing model confused. First the XML is transformed into HTML using the stylesheet. Then this HTML is displayed in the browser. When the user clicks on something, the transformation has long finished.



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

OK, maybe I was not clear enough.. Consider the below XML file:

<edit>
<user>
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<USERID>1</USERID>
<GROUPID>4</GROUPID>
<UNAME>name</UNAME>
<USURNAME>edit</USURNAME>
<UEMAIL>aneamil@</UEMAIL>
<UPASSWORD>apassword</UPASSWORD>
</ROW>

<ROW num="2">
<USERID>2</USERID>
<GROUPID>4</GROUPID>
<UNAME>aperson</UNAME>
<USURNAME>asurname</USURNAME>
<UEMAIL>something</UEMAIL>
<UPASSWORD>apassword</UPASSWORD>
</ROW>

<manager>
<ROWSET>
<ROW num="1">
<MANAGERID>203</MANAGERID>
<GROUPID>2</GROUPID>
<MNAME>aperson</MNAME>
<MSURNAME>asurname</MSURNAME>
<MEMAIL>aneamil@address<</MEMAIL>
<MPASSWORD>apassword</MPASSWORD>
</ROW>
<ROW num="2">
<MANAGERID>203</MANAGERID>
<GROUPID>2</GROUPID>
<MNAME>aperson</MNAME>
<MSURNAME>asurname</MSURNAME>
<MEMAIL>aneamil@address</MEMAIL>
<MPASSWORD>apassword</MPASSWORD>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
</manager>

</edit>

I need to create a stylesheet that has a link in the html. These links reference the template want to call, in this case the template is:

<xsl:call-template name="user" />

This will display a table in which you can see all the users information.

Then if I then click on a link within the html document eg. "manager" then I want all the manager details to be displayed instead of the users by using:

<xsl:call-template="manager" />

Do you know if this is possible??

Thanks for the reply!

When the user clicks, you want to execute some JavaScript which fires off a new XSLT transformation and places the result in the HTML page. The new transformation can use a different stylesheet, or it can use the same stylesheet with different parameters (or a different source document). You'll find examples of this in the appendix of my book dealing with MSXML.

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

Thanks for the reply.

Ill take a look at the book now.