Subject: [xsl] Creating Hierachial menu From: "Terry Clark" <tclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:09:48 +0100 |
Hi I now found myself as the only developer in my new job and have no one to bounce problems off - thats where you lot come in I'm in the proceess of creating a web based image library for our intranet (All Microsoft based) and all the source data is coming in from a csv file that I am converting to XML and transforming with XSLT I have done simiar things in the past where one of the generated nodes is a category and using keys() and generate-id() etc (the Meunchian? technique I think they call it) I have created a menu based on these categories, however this has always been a top level menu. Now I am trying to create a multi level menu system and I can't seem to make the logical leap using the same approach. Each image can be in more than one category - hence the duplicate resourceID's in the XML - <MenuRoot> - <menu resourceID="2"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Ajwa</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">RMTI</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="2"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Hardcopy_Available</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">Photograph</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="2"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">High_Res_CD_Library</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">AJ/RM_001</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="3"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Ajwa</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">RMTI</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="3"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">High_Res_CD_Library</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">AJ/RM_001</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="4"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Ajwa</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">RMTI</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="4"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Hardcopy_Available</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">Photograph</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="4"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">High_Res_CD_Library</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">AJ/RM_001</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="5"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Ajwa</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">Nabati</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="5"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Hardcopy_Available</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">Transparency</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="5"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">High_Res_CD_Library</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">AJ/NA_001</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="6"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Hardcopy_Available</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">Transparency</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="6"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">High_Res_CD_Library</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">JAD/DORAD_F_002</menuItem> </menu> - <menu resourceID="6"> <menuItem hierLevel="1">Jadawel</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="2">DorratAlJadawel_F_Riyadh</menuItem> <menuItem hierLevel="3">Accomodation</menuItem> </menu> ...... so far it is over 1000 images and what I would like to do is turn the above XML into a menu for navigation that filters down to the desired images something along the lines of Ajwa RMTI Nabati Jadawel DorratAlJadawel_F_Riyadh Accomodation External High_Res_CD_Library AJ/NA_001 AJ/RM_001 Hardcopy_Available Transparency Photograph JAD/DORAD_F_002 etc etc There is no logical limit on the number of sub levels but in reality should not be more than 5 or 6 At the moment I am having a complete brain blank on any inspiration on this one . Would I be better off creating a different XML structure or can I do what I am trying to do with this structure ? Any tips, pointers or even a solution :-) would be much appreciated TIA Terry XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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