Fw: XSL questions

["Frank Boumphrey" <bckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I was recently asked this question. Can anyone help?

Frank
----- Original Message -----
From: Anita Wong <bingjohn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Bckman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <anita.wong@xxxxxxxx>; <edward.hieatt@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 02, 1998 1:28 PM
Subject: XSL questions


 name is Anita Wong.  I have been experimenting with Koala's XSL processor.
I work with a team developing a 100% Java commercial application called
wyzdom (www.wyzdom.com). We are very interested in XML/XSL.

We are attempting to convert one of our XSL style sheets which was orginally
written to follow the XSL rule syntax ("old style" ) found in Microsoft's
MSXSL tutorial to work Koala's which is more w3c compliant ( "new style" ).
We have had success with about 85% of the style sheet ( basic rule and
ancestor matching works great !)  but we have three areas that we don't know
how create XSL rules  for:

1) <empty/> tag  - Action syntax used to supress processing of elements that
succesfully match a rule. We need to supress display of certain elements
depending on different style sheets.

Example:
<xsl:template match="orderID | manufacturer | product | version | partNumber
| quantity | qtyOrdered | qtyPending | qtyAccepted">
 <empty/>
</xsl:template>


(2) <eval> tag - Action syntax used to navigate XML DOM

Example:
<xsl:template match="wyzItem">
 <TR>
  <TD VALIGN="TOP" ALIGN="LEFT">
   <DIV font-size="10pt" font-weight="bold"
text-align="center"><eval>formatNumber(childNumber(this), "1")</eval></DIV>
  </TD>
  <TD VALIGN="TOP" >
   <DIV font-size="10pt"
text-align="center"><eval>this.children.item("orderID",0).text</eval></DIV>
  </TD></TR>
<xsl:template/>

(3) embedded Javascript in XSL stylesheet - We expect this script to be used
by the style sheet not to be passed along to the output HTML

Example:
<define-script><![CDATA[
function getLogo(e) {
return e.parent.children.item("Logo",0).text;
}]]>
</define-script>


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