Re:

[Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

Just to turn around your message:

>I presume I use:
> <xsl:template match="fundgraph">
><xsl:with-param name="fundgraph">
><xsl:value-of select="...">
></xsl:param>
></xsl:template>

I don't think so.  xsl:with-param is used to pass parameters into
templates.  Perhaps you meant xsl:param (to match the end tag you've got in
that template), but neither of these instructions will do anything about
adding things to your output, which I think is what you want.

>I need the following xml to be converted to
>accommodate a graph applet. Hence, I need parameter
>tags for the fundgraph and fundvalue elements.
>
><!ELEMENT fundgraph (fundvalue*)>
>  <!ATTLIST fundgraph startDate CDATA #REQUIRED>
>  <!ATTLIST fundgraph endDate CDATA #REQUIRED>
>  <!ATTLIST fundgraph fundName CDATA #REQUIRED>
>
>  <!ELEMENT fundvalue EMPTY>
>  <!ATTLIST fundvalue date CDATA #REQUIRED>
>  <!ATTLIST fundvalue value CDATA #REQUIRED>
>  <!ATTLIST fundvalue ordinal CDATA #REQUIRED>

>From what you've described, your input will look something like:

<fundgraph startDate="99-11-03" endDate="00-11-03" fundName="Technical">
  <fundvalue date="99-11-03" value="0.58" ordinal="0" />
  <fundvalue date="99-12-03" value="0.75" ordinal="0" />
  ...
</fundgraph>

and you want output might (complete guess here) look something like:

<object ...>
  <param name="startDate" value="99-11-03" />
  <param name="endDate" value="00-11-03" />
  <param name="title" value="Technical" />
  <param name="99-11-03" value="0.58" />
  <param name="99-12-03" value="0.75" />
  ...
</object>

The param elements that you're creating in the output are not the same as
the xsl:param elements that are used within XSLT to pass values into the
stylesheet or into templates.  The param elements in your output are in the
HTML namespace, whereas the xsl:param elements in the stylesheet are in the
XSLT namespace.

Just to start you off with the above example, you create elements within
your output either by using the xsl:element instruction:

  <xsl:element name="object">
    ...
  </xsl:element>

or by literally putting the element in the result tree:

  <object>
    ...
  </object>

So, to create the above, you could have a stylesheet that looks like:

<!-- set the output method to HTML -->
<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes" />

<xsl:template match="fundgraph">
  <!-- create an object element -->
  <object ...>
    <!-- create the param elements from the fundgraph attribute values -->
    <param name="startDate" value="{@startDate}" />
    <param name="endDate" value="{@endDate}" />
    <param name="title" value="{@fundName}" />
    <!-- iterate over each of the fundvalue elements, 
         adding a param element for each              -->
    <xsl:for-each select="fundvalue">
      <param name="{@date}" value="{@value}" />
    </xsl:for-each>
  </object>
</xsl:template>

I hope that gets you started.  If not, feel free to post more details,
namely a sample bit of source XML and the output that you want to have
created from it.

Cheers,

Jeni

Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/




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