Re: [xsl] Making an FAQ page from XML

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Steel wrote:
> Kamal Bhatt wrote:
> > Don't make "*|@*" your first match. Make it your last. Instead, match 
> > on faqlist. Not entirely sure what are the extra content is, so I 
> > cannot really judge the right way of doing things. Try this:
> >
> > <xsl:template match='faqlist'>   <xsl:apply-templates 
> > select="*[local-name != 'faq']"/>
> >  <xsl:apply-templates select="faq" mode="question"/> 
> >  <xsl:apply-templates select="faq" mode="answer"/> </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match='*|@*'>   <xsl:copy>
> >  <xsl:apply-templates select='node()|@*'/>
> > </xsl:copy>
> > </xsl:template>
> Thanks for your help - its almost there now. What I get is the right 
> output, just duplicated.
> 1 Question 1
> 2 Question 2
> ...
> 1 Answer 1
> 2 Answer 2
> ...
> 1 Question 1
> 2 Question 2
> ...
> 1 Answer 1
> 2 Answer 2
> ...
>
> This is the full stylesheet I used:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output media-type='text/html'/>
>
> <xsl:template match='faqlist'>
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name != 'faq']"/>
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="faq" mode="question"/>
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="faq" mode="answer"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match='faq' mode="question">
>  <tr>
>   <td valign='top' width='24' class="mText" style="font-size: 11px">
>    <xsl:value-of select="count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1"/>
>   </td>
>   <td class="mText" style="font-size: 11px">
>    <a href='#1'>
>     <xsl:value-of select='q'/>
>    </a>
>   </td>
>  </tr>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match='faq' mode="answer">
>  <tr>
>   <td valign='top' width='24' class="mText" style="font-size: 11px">
>    <xsl:value-of select="count(preceding-sibling::*) + 1"/>
>   </td>
>   <td class="mText" style="font-size: 11px">
>    <a href="#1">
>     <xsl:value-of select='a'/>
>    </a>
>   </td>
>  </tr>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match='*|@*'>
>  <xsl:copy>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select='node()|@*'/>
>  </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Did I make the changes you suggested correctly?
> I noticed taking out the line
>  <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name != 'faq']"/>
> had no effect.
Sorry, let me be clearer. local-name should be local-name()
> >


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Kamal Bhatt