RE: [xsl] Which commands to use: xsl:if, xsl:when, xsl:choose, xsl:otherwise ??

[Bill Walker <williamewalker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow...I think your solution works...  now
I just have to plug it into the more involved
XSL page with the colors, navigation bar stuff etc.

Thank you very much...I will let you know if it
works in the more complicated page.  IT SHOULD!!!

thanks again...Bill Walker

--- Kenny Akridge <kakridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bill,
> 
> This template will work with both of your html
> needs:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:template match="page/links">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 	
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="categories">
> <xsl:if test="normalize-space(.)">
> 	Categories: <br/>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="category">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
> 	
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="database-links">
> <xsl:if test="normalize-space(.)">	
> 	<p/>Database Links: <br/>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="database-link">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="website-links">
> <xsl:if test="normalize-space(*/@filename)">	
> 	<p/>Website Links: <br/>
> 	<xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="website-link">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="@filename"/><br/>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> It is in rough form, but you really don't need any
> logic.  You should
> get the gist of what is going on here though.
> 
> Let me know if you have any questions.
> 
> Kenny Akridge
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Bill Walker
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 1:31 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Which commands to use: xsl:if,
> xsl:when, xsl:choose,
> xsl:otherwise ??
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have learned just enough XML and XSLT to think I
> understand what I am doing. 
> 
> However, when I am faced with something that takes
> more logic and real understanding of such things as:
> 
> xsl:if
> 
> xsl:choose
> 
> xsl:when
> 
> xsl:otherwise 
> 
> .I find I really don't understand how to use them or
> what is going on with the XSLT and the processing.
> 
> Here is my problem.
> 
> I am a librarian and am working on redesigning our
> Library's website. Our plan is to group a lot of
> information into 30 Subject Categories on the right
> side of our opening screen.
> 
> http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/index.htm
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> Underlying this idea, our committee decided to make
> every single link on each subject and sub-category
> page a separate XML file.  For example, they all
> start
> as Dublin Core and look like this:
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/bureau-labor-stats.xm
> l
> 
> Little by little we are beginning to do this. So
> each
> Subject Opening page will look like this example:
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/statistics/stat-openpg.htm
> 
> This page was generated from:
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-openpg.xsl
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-openpg.xml
> 
> For any page one level in we have a more simple page
> that looks like this:
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/statistics/stat-gensit.htm
> 
> This is generated from a different XSL file and XML
> file:
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-secondpage.xsl
> 
>
http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-gensit.xml
> 
> This all works pretty well and I COULD just go on
> and
> create an XML and an XSL file for each page.
> 
> But I began thinking, "There must be a way using
> xsl:if or xsl:when or xsl:choose or xsl:otherwise to
> make it so I could have ONE and one only XSL file
> for
> the whole site.
> 
> So I simplified an XML file to include what needs to
> be (or not be) on all pages which would look like
> this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
>   <page>
>       <links>
>           <categories>
>               <category>Metaphysics</category> 
>           </categories>
> 
>           <database-links>
>              
> <database-link>InfoTrac</database-link> 
>           </database-links>
> 
>           <website-links>
>                <website-link
> filename="bureau-labor-stats.xml" /> 
>           </website-links>
>        </links>
>     </page>
> 
> 
> The idea is that no matter whether I was generating
> an
> opening Subject screen or a page further in, all the
> info. I need should be in this XML file.
> 
> What I cannot figure out is how to make XSL look at
> this XML file and process it sequentially.
> 
> If it is an opening page, it will crank out the
> Categories, Databases and the Weblinks lists .
> 
> If it is one page further in, it would have only
> web-links.  It would look the example below and,
> finding no Categories And no Databases, it would
> just
> list the Websites...
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" ?> 
>    <page>
>        <links>
>            <categories>
>                 <category /> 
>            </categories>
> 
>            <database-links>
>                 <database-link /> 
>            </database-links>
> 
>            <website-links>
>                <website-link
> filename="bureau-labor-stats.xml" /> 
> 
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