Subject: Re: ordering of output in menu rendering system From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:56:58 +0000 |
Tushar, > (note the out-of-order 'tit3' title). Can someone please explain > why this is happening, and what I need to do to fix it!..... It doesn't happen in Saxon 5.5.1 or MSXSL(Release). I see you're using Cocoon - I haven't installed Xalan on my new machine yet, but make sure you've got the most recent version: if you have, I guess it's a bug. > Also, on the same theme, Ideally I would like to say in one xml > document: 'this page relates to the menu item x', and separately > in an XSL stylesheet I would like to describe the menu and > process it according to the menu that was selected in the xml source. > > I haven't tried this yet, but I'm presuming I can do something > like compare the node string-value in the xml with the menu items > and determine which matches and continue from there. If anyone > would like to offer an example of how to do this I would be grateful! :) Well, let's say you use a 'page' attribute on the 'doc' element of your XML document to indicate what page you're on: <doc page="contacts"> ... </doc> And your menu holds the item 'contacts': <menu> ... <item> <title>contacts</title> ... </item> ... </menu> You can hold the menu either within a variable in your XSLT stylesheet and access its value through the node-set extension function (I think called nodeset in Xalan), or by holding it in a separate file and accessing it with the document() function. I think the latter is probably better in this case - if you call your menu document menu.xml you can access it with: document('menu.xml') You can find the selected menu item by finding the item whose title child element is the same as the page attribute on the doc element. So, get the menu into a variable for ease of access: <xsl:variable name="menu" select="document('menu.xml')/menu" /> And then find the selected item with: <xsl:variable name="selected-item" select="$menu//item[title = /doc/@page]" /> I hope that sets you on your way, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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