RE: [xsl] Cascading Menu (with Open/Closed Icons) and displayed children

Subject: RE: [xsl] Cascading Menu (with Open/Closed Icons) and displayed children
From: "Chima Ijeoma" <ChimaI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 17:04:15 +0100
I wouldn't mind having a look at the XSL for this.  I'm doing something
similar and have been banging my head against a wall.

(At least if you could show me some resources on the net which might be
useful, I'd be most grateful)

ChimaI

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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wendell Piez
Sent: 31 March 2003 18:38
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Cascading Menu (with Open/Closed Icons) and displayed
children


Brian,

I looked at your problem, and while I dare say your code could be debugged,
I'm sort of disinclined to do this since there's a far easier way. *If*,
that is, your output, instead of a flat table structure (with depth
indicated by indentation from spacer images), could be rendered as a nested
structure of some kind, like

<div><span>C item 1</span></div>
<div><span>O item 2</span>
   <div><span>O item 2.1</span>
       <div><span>C item 2.1.1</span></div>
       <div><span>C item 2.1.2</span></div>
       <div><span>C item 2.1.3</span></div>
   </div>
</div>
<div><span>C item 3</span></div>
<div><span>C item 4</span></div>

...which could format as nicely as the tables in HTML (in modern browsers).

Is this an option for you?

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:57 PM 3/27/2003, you wrote:
>OK,  I've been researching this in the archive and I can't find a match
>and I'm stumped.  I want to create a menu of the sort:
>
>Parameter selected (item 2.1) displays:
>
>C item 1
>O item 2
>         O item 2.1 *
>                 C item 2.1.1
>                 C item 2.1.2
>                 C item 2.1.3
>C item 3
>C item 4
>
>
>Basically, I want to specify a parameter and have it display the cascaded
>menu for me.   I want it to display the menu items at the top level and
>for any item that is selected (e.g. item 2.1 above),  I want it to display
>the open folder for that item and the closed folder for it's children.
>
>The XSL almost works.  I'm able to display the tree, but when the selected
>item has a sibling with children, I get erroneous results.  The selected
>items children plus it's sibling's children shows up in the view.  Can
>anyone point out why?
>
>If you change the param to 1.1, it works fine.  But leaving it at 2.1.1
>gives bad results.  Thanks.


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