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RE: Creating a heirarchal unordered list from flat file
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Creating a heirarchal unordered list from flat file
- From: "Clapham, Paul" <pclapham at core-mark dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:10:19 -0800
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Let me just provide the framework, and you can implement it in XSL:
You need a recursive template called something like
"OutputNodeAndItsChildren". Its implementation, when called with a node as
parameter, is:
- output the node header
- identify the node's children
- for each of those children, call "OutputNodeAndItsChildren" with the
child as parameter.
Then your processing consists of only this:
- identify the root node (parentID="0" perhaps?)
- call "OutputNodeAndItsChildren" with the root node as parameter.
That's it.
PC2
-----Original Message-----
From: David Marsh [mailto:DMarsh@fscnet.com]
Sent: January 25, 2001 12:46
To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: [xsl] Creating a heirarchal unordered list from flat file
I'm trying to create a heiarchal Ordered list from an XML file gererated
from SQL server. The XML file is a flat representation of heirarchal data.
It looks like this:
<Root>
<Groups GroupID="1" Name="Group1" ParentID="0">
<Groups GroupID="2" Name="Group2" ParentID="1">
<Groups GroupID="3" Name="Group3" ParentID="1">
<Groups GroupID="4" Name="Group4" ParentID="1">
<Groups GroupID="5" Name="Group5" ParentID="2">
<Groups GroupID="6" Name="Group6" ParentID="2">
<Groups GroupID="7" Name="Group7" ParentID="3">
<Groups GroupID="8" Name="Group8" ParentID="3">
<Groups GroupID="9" Name="Group9" ParentID="4">
<Groups GroupID="10" Name="Group10" ParentID="5">
<Groups GroupID="11" Name="Group11" ParentID="5">
<Groups GroupID="12" Name="Group12" ParentID="6">
<Groups GroupID="13" Name="Group13" ParentID="8">
<Groups GroupID="14" Name="Group14" ParentID="8">
<Groups GroupID="15" Name="Group15" ParentID="9">
<Groups GroupID="16" Name="Group16" ParentID="10">
<Groups GroupID="17" Name="Group17" ParentID="10">
<Groups GroupID="18" Name="Group18" ParentID="16">
<Groups GroupID="19" Name="Group19" ParentID="18">
<Groups GroupID="20" Name="Group20" ParentID="19">
...
<Root>
The groups list will grow over time.
I want to transform it into an HTML document to an Unordered list that will
show the heirarchical structore of the file.
Example:
* Group1
* Group2
* Group5
* Group10
* Group16
* Group18
* Group19
* Group20
* Group17
* Group11
* Group6
* Group12
* Group3
* Group7
* Group8
* Group13
* Group14
* Group4
* Group9
* Group15
Is there an easy way to do this with XSL. I'm new at this and I'm kind of
stumped right now.
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