simple XSLT question

_thinking · January 24th, 2006, 07:47 AM

Hi,

I have xml file like:

<tag1>
  <tag11>
    <strValue value="val1"/>
    <strValue2 value="val1_2"/>
  </tag1>
  <tag12>
    <strValue value="val2"/>
    <strValue2 value="val2_2"/>
  </tag12>
  <tagAAA>
    <strValue value="val3"/>
    <strValue2 value="val3_2"/>
  </tagAAA>
  ...
</tag1>

I need to form XSL file to output outer tags( tag11, tag12,tag13 ) as table names and strValue1, strValue2 as tables' headers.

I don't know what tag names are when creating XSL.

Thanks a lot, waiting for answers

mhkay · January 24th, 2006, 08:49 AM

Do you know what output (HTML, presumably) you want to generate? If you don't, it's not worth even thinking about the XSLT code needed (never start writing any program if you don't know what you want the output to look like).

Then, if you still have problems writing the XSLT, give us some clues as to where you are having difficulty. Show us what you tried and where you got stuck. We're here to help you over your learning difficulties, not to write the code for you.

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

_thinking · January 24th, 2006, 09:30 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mhkay
Do you know what output (HTML, presumably) you want to generate? If you don't, it's not worth even thinking about the XSLT code needed (never start writing any program if you don't know what you want the output to look like).

Then, if you still have problems writing the XSLT, give us some clues as to where you are having difficulty. Show us what you tried and where you got stuck. We're here to help you over your learning difficulties, not to write the code for you.

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

I need an HTML file, where first-level tags are table names, second-level are headers for each table, and 3rd-level - are values in the table. I don't know how to get a list of tag names (not values!) inside specific tag.

mhkay · January 24th, 2006, 10:24 AM

You can get a list of the elements within a given element using child::* (or simply *) and you can get the name of an element using the name() function. I'm afraid I don't really know what you mean when you talk about a "second level tag" in HTML - you'll have to explain more clearly.

It's dangerous to use the term "tag" when talking about XSLT's data model, by the way. XSLT works in terms of a tree containing nodes. Tags appear in source XML only, and each element node in the tree usually corresponds to two tags, a start tag and an end tag. When people talk about the "content of a tag" it's not clear whether they mean the name of the element or the content of the element.

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

_thinking · January 24th, 2006, 10:41 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by mhkay
You can get a list of the elements within a given element using child::* (or simply *) and you can get the name of an element using the name() function. I'm afraid I don't really know what you mean when you talk about a "second level tag" in HTML - you'll have to explain more clearly.

It's dangerous to use the term "tag" when talking about XSLT's data model, by the way. XSLT works in terms of a tree containing nodes. Tags appear in source XML only, and each element node in the tree usually corresponds to two tags, a start tag and an end tag. When people talk about the "content of a tag" it's not clear whether they mean the name of the element or the content of the element.

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

Thanks. Using <xsl:for-each select="node_my/*"> actually solved my problem. in combination with <xsl:value-of select="name(.)"/> I've got what I wanted.
Thanks again.