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RE: How does one go about extracting HTML anchors from an XML file?
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] How does one go about extracting HTML anchors from an XML file?
- From: "Hewko, Doug" <Doug dot Hewko at ccra-adrc dot gc dot ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:25:10 -0400
- Cc: "'jacob_liat at hotmail dot com'" <jacob_liat at hotmail dot com>
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try:
<xsl:template name="href">
<xsl:param name="word"/>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="$word"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</a>
</xsl:template>
and
<xsl:template name="a">
<xsl:param name="addr"/>
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="$addr"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</a>
</xsl:template>>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liat Jacob [mailto:jacob_liat@hotmail.com]
> Sent: September 17, 2001 3:15 PM
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] How does one go about extracting HTML anchors
> from an XML
> file?
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to retrieve links and mailto anchors from an XML
> file and display
> them in an HTML page ('a href' and 'a mailto' respectively).
> The problem I'm
> running into is that I don't know how to extract these
> anchors properly
> while preserving the overall hierarchy of the nodes.
>
> Here's what my XML file looks like:
>
> <article>
> <summary>
> <p>blah blah blah blah blah blah
> blah <href link='www.yahoo.com'> some link text here</href>
> blah blah <a mailto="jacob_liat@hotmail.com>some text here</a>
> blah blah.</p>
> <p>second paragraph with additional anchors embedded throughout
> the paragraph text.</p>
> </summary>
> </article>
>
>
>
> The corresponding XSL file is:
>
> <xsl:template match="p">
> <P>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="href">
> <xsl:for-each select="href">
> <xsl:call-template name="href">
> <xsl:with-param name="word">
> <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:with-param>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:when test="a">
> <xsl:for-each select="a">
> <xsl:call-template name="a">
> <xsl:with-param name="addr">
> <xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:with-param>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:when>
> </xsl:choose>
> </P>
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template name="href">
> <xsl:param name="word"/>
> <A HREF="http://{@link}"><xsl:value-of select="$word"/></A>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> <xsl:template name="a">
> <xsl:param name="addr"/>
> <A HREF="mailto:{@mailto}"><xsl:value-of select="$addr"/></A>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> I'd greatly appreciate if anyone has any ideas and would
> kindly point me in
> the right direction.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> Liat
>
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