XSL Need Help Translating XML To HTML Hyperlink

qwijibow

Mar 9 2005, 10:12 PM

Sorry if this sounds stupid, but im new to XML, and i just cant get my head around this problem.

imagine the following XML

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<student name=chris>
<link>http://.chris.com</link>
<student>

i need to use XSL to translate that to a html hyperlink in the form of

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<a hreh="http://chris.com">chris</a>

at first i tried

CODE

but that generates a nasty error, obviously because i have embedded tags.

how am i meant to solve this problem ????

i have tried storeing "chris.com" in a xsl variable, but then all i get is a hyperlink to a variable name.

google is clueless, does anyone here have any idea's ??

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rkage

Mar 10 2005, 07:54 PM

Sorry about the long wait for a while. I was stomped on this one last night and my connection went off so I couldn't get to do any more testing, but I remembered how to do what you want.

For the sake of completion, here is the XML file I used;

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="links.xsl"?>

<students>
[tab][/tab]<student name="Chris">
<link>http://www.chris.com</link>
[tab][/tab]</student>
[tab][/tab]
[tab][/tab]<student name="Kage">
<link>http://kage.astahost.com</link>
[tab][/tab]</student>
</students>

So to do what you want, just assign the tag <a> and then use the <xsl:attribute name=" "></xsl: attribute>Text for link here</a>

So the complete code I used is;

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="students/student">
<a><xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="link"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
</a>
<br />
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helped. It certainly relit a spark in my head about XML. If you've any qu's in the future on XML, just give me a buzz.

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rkage

Mar 10 2005, 07:56 PM

Woops, almost forgot, if you want to see the thing in action, click here example.

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qwijibow

Mar 11 2005, 04:12 PM

Thanks, thats exactly what i needed, i didnt even know htat xsl:attribute existed.

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rIxXoN

Mar 15 2005, 04:31 PM

Maybe you should read this?:

http://www.astahost.com/Converting-HTML-ov...XHTML-t501.html

I hope this helpd you.

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