RE: [xsl] creating a toc with links to content

["Chris Bayes" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Patricia,
I seem to remember having a similar problem with links. Can't remember why
now or how I solved it but on the way to solving it I found that making my
links like this worked <a name="name">name</a> i.e. putting some text into
the anchor. This isn't the solution but you could try it and see if you get
the same result.
To view the output of the transform use this
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/code/sample.asp?url=/MS
DN-FILES/027/000/543/msdncompositedoc.xml
This used to work well but recently I've found that if you try and do it
twice it crashes so if you have that problem close the window it opens
before doing it again.

Ciao Chris

XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml


>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Patricia
>Quintin
>Sent: 10 May 2001 14:13
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [xsl] creating a toc with links to content
>
>
>
>Hi Meltem,
>I finished the stylesheet using your advice, and when I browse the xml file
>with IE5 on my Mac <sob, it's what I use at work>, it's fantastic! You can
>click the name of any tag at the top of the document to see its
>definition. I
>added "to top" links also.
>
>Here's the code for the list of links at the top of the page:
><a name="top"></a>
><xsl:for-each order-by="+ name" select="taglib/tag"
>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
> <br/><a><xsl:attribute name="href">#<xsl:value-of
>select="name"/></xsl:attribute>
> <xsl:value-of select="name"/></a>
></xsl:for-each>
>
>And the corresponding code for the name links:
> <xsl:for-each select="taglib/tag" order-by="+ name"
>xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
>  <a><xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of
>select="name"/></xsl:attribute>
>  <h3><xsl:value-of select="name"/></h3></a>
>    ** tag description stuff here **
>    <br/><a href="#top">to top</a>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
>
>I excitedly notified my coworkers about this great resource for
>our tag library
>
>& *nobody* responded. I thought hm, well I guess they're all busy...then I
>tried browsing the document using IE5 on one of the office PCs
>(what everybody
>else uses), and when you click on a link, you get a "page cannot
>be displayed -
>
>cannot find server or DNS error!" Even for the "top" links, which
>are basically
>
>hard-coded into the page. Interestingly, when you roll your mouse
>over a link,
>the status bar displays what looks like a perfectly correct link. The same
>thing happens on my PC at home, running win98 & IE5.5.
>
>So I'm wondering if the PCs are missing some component for IE5?
>Also, is there
>a way to view the html source that the xsl generates? It might
>make it easier
>to troubleshoot the link problem.
>
>The actual extension on the xml file is .tld - would that make a
>difference?
>
>Thanks,
>pq
>
>Meltem Kogelbauer wrote:
>
>> I understands now. You are anchoring within the page. Then that's fine.
>> Then you first lines on top look like
>> <a>
>>         <xsl:attribute name="href">#<xsl:value-of
>> select="name"/></xsl:attribute>
>>         <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
>> </a>
>>
>> And in the Match="tag" template the <a> link look like this
>>
>> <a><xsl:attribute name="name">#<xsl:value-of
>select="name"/></xsl:attribute>
>>
>> <h3><xsl:value-of select="name"/></h3></a>
>>
>> Meltem
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Patricia Quintin [mailto:pquintin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 03 May 2001 5:54 PM
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [xsl] creating a toc with links to content
>>
>> thanks for responding! this <a name="{name}"></a> is supposed to create a
>> name
>> link in the page, e.g., if you have a tag called <name> catId</name>, the
>> HTML
>> will say <a name="catId"></a>.
>>
>> The list of tag names at the top is supposed to get turned into
>page links,
>> so
>> the same catId tag would show up in the alphabetical list at the top like
>> this:
>> <a href="#catId">catId</a>
>>
>> Does this make sense?
>>
>> thanks again
>>
>> Meltem Kogelbauer wrote:
>>
>> > I haven't thoroughly looked at your code but when I tried the
>> <xsl:attribute
>> > name="name"><xsl:value-of select="name" /></xsl:attribute>
>> > in the first each-loop (the first appears on top) it works quite well.
>> > Comments: When you use apply-templates you do not need to use for-eash
>> loop
>> > for the same element.
>> >
>> > and this one
>> >
>> > <a name="{name}"></a>
>> >
>> > what is it supposed to do in this form?
>> >
>> > Meltem
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Patricia Quintin [mailto:pquintin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> > Sent: 03 May 2001 2:28 PM
>> > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Subject: [xsl] creating a toc with links to content
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > I have an xml document with multiple items that looks like this:
>> >
>> > <taglib>
>> >       <tag>
>> >             <name>first tag</name>
>> >             <info>info about this tag</info>
>> >             <attribute>
>> >                   <name>attribute 1</name>
>> >                   <info>info about attribute 1</info>
>> >             </attribute>
>> >             <attribute>
>> >                   <name>attribute 2</name>
>> >                   <info>info about attribute 1</info>
>> >             </attribute>
>> >       </tag>
>> >        <tag>
>> >             <name>second tag</name>
>> >             <info>info about this tag</info>
>> >             <attribute>
>> >                  <name>attribute 1</name>
>> >                   <info>info about attribute 1</info>
>> >             </attribute>
>> >             <attribute>
>> >                   <name>attribute 2</name>
>> >                   <info>info about attribute 1</info>
>> >             </attribute>
>> >       </tag>
>> > </taglib>
>> >
>> > I want the xsl to generate a document that creates an alphabetical list
>> > of tag names at the top of the document, with each tag name being a a
>> > link to the full description of the the tag further down in the
>> > document.
>> >
>> > So far I've got the xsl creating the alphabetical list and then the
>> > descriptions of each tag (also alphabetical), but the link tags aren't
>> > working. Anybody got any ideas?
>> >
>> > here's the xsl:
>> >
>> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
>> >
>> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>> > version="1.0">
>> >        <xsl:template match="/">
>> >
>> > <html>
>> >      <head>
>> >          <title>xr tag library</title>
>> >          <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
>> > charset=iso-8859-1"/>
>> >      </head>
>> > <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
>> >
>> > <h2>tag library</h2>
>> > <hr/>
>> >
>> > <xsl:for-each select="taglib/tag" order-by="+ name"
>> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
>> >      <br/><a href="#{name}"><xsl:value-of select="name"/></a>
>> > </xsl:for-each>
>> >
>> > <hr/>
>> > <h2>tag definitions</h2>
>> > <hr/>
>> >
>> > <xsl:template match="taglib">
>> >     <xsl:for-each select="tag">
>> >          <xsl:apply-templates select="tag">
>> >              <xsl:sort select="name"/>
>> >          </xsl:apply-templates>
>> >     </xsl:for-each>
>> > </xsl:template>
>> >
>> > <xsl:template match="tag">
>> >      <xsl:for-each select="taglib/tag" order-by="+ name"
>> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
>> >           <a name="{name}"></a>
>> >           <h3><xsl:value-of select="name"/></h3>
>> >           <br/><b>info:</b> <xsl:value-of select="info"/>
>> >           <br/><br/><i>ATTRIBUTES: </i>
>> >           <xsl:for-each  select="attribute">
>> >                 <br/><b><xsl:value-of select="name"/></b>
>> >                 <ul>
>> >                     <li>info: <xsl:value-of select="info"/></li>
>> >                 </ul>
>> >            </xsl:for-each>
>> >           <hr/>
>> >      </xsl:for-each>
>> > </xsl:template>
>> >
>> > </body>
>> > </html>
>> >
>> > </xsl:template>
>> > </xsl:stylesheet>
>> >
>> > I hope I haven't given you too much/too little information. Any
>> > suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Pat Quintin
>> >
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>>
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