create an index

bonekrusher · July 28th, 2006, 05:54 PM

Hi all, I am slowly learning XSLT and I am trying to build an index.html (with links) file from 2 xml file with the same schema.
xml files:

test1.xml
test2.xml

output names:

test1.html
test2.html

The xml element is:
<indexterm> with an attribute @id

can any one help?

Thanks

mhkay · July 29th, 2006, 03:33 AM

It's difficult to help without knowing where you are hitting difficulties. Start by simplifying the problem down to its essence, show us a simple input and output that you want to achieve, and show us your first attempt at solving it - however inadequate, this lets us know how far you can get without help.

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

bonekrusher · July 29th, 2006, 05:45 AM

Michael,

Thank you for your reply. Actually I picked up XSLT 2. (3rd addition) and its been very helpful. I was able to creat e a TOC for my XML project. Now i am stuck on the index.
Taking this example http://www.xml.com/cookbooks/xsltckb...tion.csp?day=1 I am trying to apply it to my xml files.

Here is some info on the XML element "indexterm"

it has two attributes @id and @name. I am using the @id for cross referencing later.

Thanks for the help.

This is what I have so far

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"   
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" 
 extension-element-prefixes="saxon">

<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="index"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="content"/>
</xsl:template>




<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm" mode="index">
  <saxon:output href="index.html">     
    <html>
     <head>
       <title>Index</title>
     </head>

     <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
      <h1>Index</h1>
      <xsl:apply-templates mode="index"/>
     </body>
    </html>
  </saxon:output>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm" mode="index">
  <h2>
    <a href="{concat(@name,'.html')}">
      <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
    </a>
  </h2>
</xsl:template>





<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm" mode="content">
  <saxon:output href="{@name}.html">     
    <html>
     <head>
        <title><xsl:value-of select="@id"/> Sales</title>
     </head>

     <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
      <h1><xsl:value-of select="@id"/> Sales</h1>
      <ol>
          <xsl:apply-templates mode="content"/>
      </ol>
     </body>
    </html>
  </saxon:output>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

bonekrusher · July 29th, 2006, 05:55 AM

oh I almost forgot. The desired outcome is a book type index:

A

[u]Aircraft</u>
[u]Airplane</u>

B.

Books

and so on....

The index.html is a seperate file. They would hyperlink to the HTML file. I will have about 35 manuals in our system and I want to build a single index file for all manuals. So the xsl would scan all the xml files for the indexterms, I would know the HTMl outputs for all the manuals.

bonekrusher · July 29th, 2006, 07:17 AM

on a quick note, this is exactly what I am trying to achieve:

http://www.gca.org/papers/xmleurope2...dex/keywd.html

once again thanks for the help.

bonekrusher · July 31st, 2006, 08:14 AM

Hi all,

If at all posssible, can someone point me in some direction with this. I am under a timeline.I am starting to sweat!

Thanks again

Bones