[xsl] XSLT template from XSLT + XML

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>From: "Michael Semcheski" <mhs@aylix.com>
>To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
>Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT template from XSLT + XML
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:38:43 -0400
>
>> <a href="{@ref}"><xsl:value-of select="link"/></a>
>
>> in addition notice that the curly brackets will
>> output the value of whatever element, attribute, or var/param you supply.
>
>Thats a trick I did not know about before, thanks.
>
>> is it possible that instead of your styling that your data needs to go
>> through a few stages of transformation...always play around with your data
>> first, then style later.
>
>Well, in this case, it was necessary.  I needed an automated way to create
>applications built around xslt.  The xslt's were generally similar, but
>needed a few elements to be different, such as relative paths, etc.
>
>> there is no reason to autogenerate xslt code using xslt, xslt is
>xml....and
>> can be manipulated just as much as any xml file can be with XSLT...I
>suspect
>> the problem you maybe having is how to 'chain' these transforms together,
>in
>> other words how do you take the output of one transformation and supply it
>> as the input to another....you have a few options;
>
>> - control your processing with script, in the case of MSXML, u could use
>> javascript to chain a bunch of transforms together
>
>> - post an example snippet of xml / xsl maybe we can help
>
>Just for the sake of anyone who might have the same problem in the future,
>I'm including a chunk at the bottom.  Suffice it to say, Jeni's suggestion
>to use xsl:namespace made it very easy to create the templates and nodes
>that were required.  The only thing I was not sure about was what to put in
>the xsl:stylesheet line for "axsl" (the style-sheet prefix that became xsl)
>
>By the way, I'm surprised at how many auto-responders are on the mailing
>list.  If you're out on vacation, good for you.  I am not.
>
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>    xmlns:rs="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:rowset"
>    xmlns:z="#RowsetSchema"
>    xmlns:axsl="futurexsl">
>    <xsl:namespace-alias stylesheet-prefix="axsl" result-prefix="xsl" />
>    <xsl:template match="/compile-options">
>        <axsl:template match="/xml/rs:data/zbundle">
>            <tr>
>                <axsl:if test="z:row[@Suppress_Seperator='False']">
>                    <td>
>                        <xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of
>select="design/image-directory"/>images/background.jpg</xsl:attribute></img>
>                    </td>
>                </axsl:if>
>                <axsl:if test="z:row[@Suppress_Seperator='True']">
>                    <td valign="top" colspan="2"/>
>                </axsl:if>
>            </tr>
>            <tr>
>                <axsl:if
>test="not(boolean(z:row[@QNumber]))"><td>&#160;</td></axsl:if>
>                <axsl:if
>test="boolean(z:row[@QNumber])"><td><img><axsl:attribute
>name="src"><xsl:value-of select="design/image-directory"/><axsl:value-of
>select="z:row/@QNumber"/>.jpg</axsl:attribute></img></td></axsl:if>
>                <td>
>                    <table>
>                        <axsl:apply-templates select="z:row"/>
>                    </table>
>                </td>
>            </tr>
>        </axsl:template>
>    </xsl:template>
></xsl:stylesheet>



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