Hi,

I am new to XSL. I need help in passing the below RSS Feed URL to through this XSL Code so that it fetches the Title and description from the Feed:
The URL that i need to pass is :http://infotech.indiatimes.com/rssfeeds/2663900.cms

Where exactly do i need to include this URL, someone please help, this is an urgent requirement :(

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="TITLE"/>
<xsl:template match="rss">
<!-- Do not show channel image -->
<xsl:for-each select="channel/item">
<xsl:if test="position() &lt;= 7">
<br>
<strong><a href="{link}" target="_new"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a></strong><br></br>
<!-- only display markup for description if it's present -->
<xsl:value-of select="description" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</br>
<br></br>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="description">
<br>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</br>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I'd just like to chime in that I would also like to know how to do this. I just bought the XSLT 2.0 & XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference and I didn't find this anywhere.

I'm working with XMLSpy now but I'd like my XSLT file to work without it as well. I need to call a specific URL for the RSS Feed and then follow the contained link to get more data. Can this be done in XSLT?

Rob

If the document is the principal input to the stylesheet, then the way in which you supply it as input depends on the API to your chosen XSLT processor, which varies depending what product you are using.

If the document is a secondary input, then you can read it by calling the document() function.

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

Well In my case it is secondary... Could you give an example of using the document() function to access a given URL? For example I want to access https://www.test.com/rss?variable where the variable would be different each time it's accessed and then extract text from the resulting data. Thanks in advance for the help.


Rob

It's just like any other function call, for example

<xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat('https:///www.test.com/rss?', $var))" mode="rss"/>

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

Thank you! I appreciate it.



Rob