Hi dear folks!

I am curious of some of your impressions on the scenario to follow:

I'd like to have a stylesheet smart enough to have dynamicly generated menus (depending on how many are found in the xml file) and displaying their respective content.
In other words (or code):

The XML would look something like this:

The result I am after generated on the page would use the 'title' attributes values as the navigation menu titles (or links if you wish) each displaying their content in the same page - basically playing with <div> visibilities.

But the main idea is to make the style sheet smart enough to display how many <menu> items (with their respective content) there might be in the xml file.

Thanks gang!
Gabi.

Hi

If you're just trying to generate dynamic menus then that's not really a XSLT question, you should search out from DHTML or javascript forum for help.

If however you have a problem actually using XSLT to transform the XML you mention then try mentioning the desired output, and what you've tried so far.


/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

Well, thanks but it is very much a XSLT issue since it regards the nodes transformation and later playing with the visibility in the output.
As for trying I was going to do that after the members impressions that was very helpful in the past posts.

thank you,
Gabi.

We're not here to do your work for you - if you have a specific problem then we'll try and help, but without even knowing what you're trying to output its hard to guess.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

That's a fairly common scenario. Both ASP.NET and DotNetNuke do something similar, producing a menu from an XML source, as do many of our applications at work. One uses the XML twice, once for the map and once to build the actual content pages. Look at asp.net sitemap if you want some ideas on how to structure the XML.

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Do you know what HTML you want to generate from this XML?

If you know what output you want your stylesheet to produce, then I can help you write the code. If you don't know, then I can't.

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

Ok - sorry if I was unclear.

The result I am trying to generate is a single page that has a navigation menu comprised of the 'title' attributes of each 'menu' child. So the page would look something like this:

menu 1 ----- menu 2 ---- menu 3 ---- menu 4

As you click on those menus, the content of each will be displayed underneath. But all this in one single page. And I thought that the best way is to use <div> (layers) and playing with the visibility. Something that I am doing here:

XML: http://mamaliga.com/onlinescheduling/os_3_months.xml

The style sheet is: http://mamaliga.com/onlinescheduling/os_3_months.xsl

There I have 3 menus for now (MAIN, CT and MRI), each being displayed (or hidden) using layers. The problem there (if you look in the stylesheet)is that I have each layer hard-coded for each afferent section in the xml file.

in other words there I have:

<CT>
[...]
</CT>

<MRI>
[...]
</MRI>

So my intention in the end is to tweak the stylesheet so that I don't need to hard-code it for each of those sections in the XML (the sections are only CT and MRI for now but there will be dynamic)...

Hope I made it clear enough...

Thanks gang!
GAbi.