[xsl] generating an HTML web hierarchy from XML using XSLT

[Saverio Perugini <sperugin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Is XSLT capable of transforming an XML file modeling [only] the schema of a
web site into to an actual HTML web hierarchy?

i.e. Can XSLT transform the following XML

<site_Schema>
   <a>
      <b>http://url1</b>
      <c>http://url2</c>
      <d>http://url3</d>
   </a>

   <e>
      <f>http://url4</f>
   </e>

   <g>
      <h>http://url5</h>
      <i>http://url6</i>
   </g>
</site_Schema>

into the following web site where XML element names correspond to
link labels (edges or <a href's> in the web hierarchy).

             1
           / | \
        a /  | e \ g
        /    |    \
      2      3    4
    / | \    |   / \
 b /  |c \d  |f /h  \i
  /   |  |   |  |   |
 |    |  |   |  |   |
u1   u2  u3  u4 u5  u6

(apologies for the ill-formed ascii site-map)

If possible, I surmise that this task entails using XSLT to perfrom a
depth-first search of the XML input graph and creating a new HTML file
(and adding an <a href> to it for each child) every time a child
is encountered.

Is XSLT capable of creating multiple output files and manipulating and
switching between them while processing? which this task seems to
require.

If possible, do you recommend I take the XSLT approach or use a technology
like PHP or JSP?

Many Thanks,

Saverio Perugini


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