Generate multiple HTML pages using common node name

tombliboo · February 2nd, 2011, 09:40 PM

Hi

Please help this is driving me insane, I've simplified my XML and stylesheet below for explaining what I'm trying to achieve.

My stylesheet is successfully generating a HTML file for each of my categories using title i.e.

This Category.html
That Category.html

It also generates a simple index.html at the end which contains links to each of these pages.. However what I also want to achieve is:

This Category - This Sub Category 1.html
This Category - This Sub Category 2.html
This Category - This Sub Category 3.html
That Category - That Sub Category 1.html
That Category - That Sub Category 2.html
That Category - That Sub Category 3.html

With an index page that references each page, once I have this in place I can really start my website for my shop. I'm assuming I need another for-each loop

within the category for-each loop but when I do this I only get the 'This Category.html' level files generated. Whereas if I remove the inner for-each loop

I also get:

'This Sub Category 1 This Sub Category 2 This Sub Category 3.html' etc

Not what I want but hopefully I'm already close.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance.

XML:

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<categories>
<category>
<title>This Category</title>
<subcategory>This Sub Category 1</subcategory>
<subcategory>This Sub Category 2</subcategory>
<subcategory>This Sub Category 3</subcategory>
</category>
<category>
<title>That Category</title>
<subcategory>That Sub Category 1</subcategory>
<subcategory>That Sub Category 2</subcategory>
<subcategory>That Sub Category 3</subcategory>
</category>
</categories>

XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" name="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:for-each select="categories/category">

<xsl:variable name="varCat">
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:for-each select="categories/category">

<xsl:variable name="varSubCat">
<xsl:value-of select="subcategory"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="filename"
select="concat('output/',$carCat,' - '$varSubCat,'.html')" />
<xsl:value-of select="$filename" />

<xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="html">
<html><body>
<xsl:value-of select="subcategory"/>
</body></html>
</xsl:result-document>

</xsl:for-each>

<xsl:variable name="filename"
select="concat('output/',$varCat,'.html')" />
<xsl:value-of select="$filename" />

<xsl:result-document href="{$filename}" format="html">
<html><body>
<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</body></html>
</xsl:result-document>

</xsl:for-each>

<xsl:result-document href="output/index.html"
format="html">
<html><head><title>Test Index</title></head>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="categories/category">

<a href="{title}.html"><xsl:value-of select="title" />
</a><br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:result-document>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Martin Honnen · February 3rd, 2011, 06:29 AM

If you post code samples then consider to indent them and mark them up with http://p2p.wrox.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#code as that makes it easier for other to read them.
As for your problem, I would not write one template with lots of for-each, instead I would write templates with different modes so that you can have one mode for creating an index for instance. That way it is easier to separate the different tasks.

Also note that instead of doing

Code:

<xsl:variable name="varCat">
		<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
	</xsl:variable>

you can and should simply use

Code:

<xsl:variable name="varCat" select="title"/>

tombliboo · February 5th, 2011, 09:45 AM

Many thanks I have succesfully managed to create the desired pages based on your advice, and apologies for being unaware of the etiquette of posting code I will do so properly in future. :)