XSLT Template error again

bmains · December 18th, 2003, 06:07 PM

Hello,

I thought my problem was fixed, but it is not. My xml is in the format of:

<Documents>
  <Section Title="A" Sidebar="false">
    <Document> <- maxOccurs="unbounded", contains child nodes
    ...
  </Section>
  <Section Title="B" Sidebar="false">
    ...
  </Section>
  <Section Title="C" Sidebar="true">
    ...
  </Section>

I want the sidebar to be separate from the regular content. My stylesheet looks like:

<xslt:template match="Documents">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <td>
         <xslt:apply-templates select="Section[@Sidebar='false']"/>
         
      </td>
      <td style="border: 1px solid black">
         <xslt:apply-templates select="Section[@Sidebar='true']"/>
         
      </td>
    </tr>
</xslt:template>

For the first option that is uncommented, I matched them as:
<xslt:template match="Section[@Sidebar='false']">
  ....
</xslt:template>
<xslt:template match="Section[@Sidebar='true']">
  ....
</xslt:template>

For the uncommented code attempt, I matched them as:
<xslt:template match="Section">
  ....
</xslt:template>
<xslt:template match="Section" mode="sidebar">
  ....
</xslt:template>

The first code attempt worked, but everything was Sidebar='false', so it didn't work. My last attempt didn't work also, was even worse.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks,

<Brian Mains/>

shbyland · December 18th, 2003, 09:07 PM

Brian,

I've never seen "<xslt:..." used in stylesheets -- this is a typo? Should be "<xsl:...". Otherwise, one issue I can see immediately is this code:

         <xsl:for-each select="Section[@Sidebar='false']">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="Section"/>
         </xsl:for-each>

won't work because this is attempting to apply templates to Section element children of Section elements where @Sidebar is false; i.e it will only match:

<Section Sidebar="false">
  <Section>matches these elements</Section>
</Section>

However, looking at your stylesheet I would ask what your ultimate objective is regarding the table to be output. As it stands, it looks like you want one table with one row (<tr>) per Documents element, with the first "cell" (<td>) containing everything where @Sidebar is "false", and 2nd cell containing everything where @Sidebar is "true". Is this correct? If so, try:

<xsl:template match="Documents">
  <table>
    <tr>
      <td>
         <xsl:apply-templates select="Section[@Sidebar='false']"/>
      </td>
      <td style="border: 1px solid black">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="Section[@Sidebar='true']" mode="sidebar"/>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Section">
  code for which @Sidebar is "false"
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Section" mode="sidebar">
  code for which @Sidebar is "true"
</xsl:template>

untested...

...sam

joefawcett · December 19th, 2003, 09:38 AM

Not sure what you want but I made up a stylesheet for use on the following xml. If your output for true and false sections is the same you might not need two templates to match, just two to slect. That's why I coloured the output.

Code:

<Documents>
  <Section Title="A" Sidebar="false">
    <Document><data>Joe</data></Document>
    <Document><data>Gins</data></Document>
    <Document><data>Sephi</data></Document>
  </Section>
  <Section Title="B" Sidebar="false">
    <Document><data>Xavier</data></Document>
    <Document><data>Peter</data></Document>
    <Document><data>Stephen</data></Document>
  </Section>
  <Section Title="C" Sidebar="true">
    <Document><data>William</data></Document>
    <Document><data>Sheila</data></Document>
    <Document><data>Smokie</data></Document>
  </Section>
</Documents>

The xslt is

Code:

<woodenShoe:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:woodenShoe="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <woodenShoe:output method="html"/>
  <woodenShoe:template match="/">
    <html>
      <head><title>True versus False</title></head>
      <body>
        <woodenShoe:apply-templates select="Documents"/>  
      </body>
    </html>    
  </woodenShoe:template>
  <woodenShoe:template match="Documents">
    <table border="1">
      <tbody>
        <tr>
          <td>    
            <woodenShoe:apply-templates select="Section[@Sidebar = 'false']"/>
          </td>
          <td>    
            <woodenShoe:apply-templates select="Section[@Sidebar = 'true']"/>
          </td>
        </tr>    
      </tbody>
     </table>
  </woodenShoe:template>
  <woodenShoe:template match="Section[@Sidebar = 'false']">
    <div style="color:#dd0000"><woodenShoe:value-of select="@Title"/>:</div>
    <woodenShoe:apply-templates select="Document"/>    
  </woodenShoe:template>
  <woodenShoe:template match="Section[@Sidebar = 'true']">
    <div style="color:#00dd00"><woodenShoe:value-of select="@Title"/>:</div>
    <woodenShoe:apply-templates select="Document"/>  
  </woodenShoe:template>
  <woodenShoe:template match="Document">
    #160;#160;<woodenShoe:value-of select="data/text()"/><br/>
  </woodenShoe:template>
</woodenShoe:stylesheet>

Personally I would have thought you wanted one column for true, one for false and each item in a fresh row but that's not difficult to manage either.

My apologies to shbyland for the woodenShoe bit...

Joe (MVP - xml)

shbyland · December 19th, 2003, 10:55 AM

No apologies needed!!

so the declaration line (<woodenShoe:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:woodenShoe="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">) defines all (learn something new every day) :)

...sam

joefawcett · December 19th, 2003, 11:17 AM

Yes, two other things may, or may not, be of interest. You can use transform instead of styleheet, obviously the w3c committee couldn't agree on what to call it.
Secondly you can miss off the prefix altogether but then you would have to use a prefix for any non-xslt elements which would only suit certain output styles..

Code:

<transform version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"                           xmlns:myNS="http://rightway.co.uk/namespaces/general/examples">
  <template match="/">
    <myNS:root><myNS:data><value-of select="'Hello World.'"/></myNS:data></myNS:root>    
  </template>
</transform>

Joe (MVP - xml)