Subject: RE: [xsl] Followup question for Kenny Akridge...Thank you! From: Bill Walker <williamewalker@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 17:49:18 -0800 (PST) |
Thank you again for your generosity... I think this SHOULD work... I am just stumped as to how to put in the commands... --Bill Walker --- Kenny Akridge <kakridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bill, I take the time because other have taken the > time with me :) I'll > try to look at this tonight. I've been swamped with > work lately (none > of which is XSL right now, and I love working with > XSL), but I will > certainly get to it soon. > > -Kenny Akridge > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Bill Walker > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 4:53 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] Followup question for Kenny > Akridge...Thank you! > > Hi again... This question is directed to Kenny > Akridge > specifically. I wasn't sure how else to reach him > directly... > > _______ > > Last week you were gracious enough to offer > me a solution as to how to get parts of a page > to display if info. was or was not included in > the XML file. I really appreciate the time you took > to think it through for me. > > Your solution works great on the simple level > I laid out. > > You did offer to write back if I had questions, > so I am taking you up on it. > > As I mentioned before, my goal is to > plug your solution into a full-fledged XSL > stylesheet that includes all the rest of the HTML > and CSS references etc. > > Here is what the existing page looks like: > > http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/new_webroot/statistics/stat-openpg.htm > > > Here is the existing XSL stylesheet: > > http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-openpg.xsl > > > and the existing XML file: > > http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/stat-openpg.xml > > > The XSL file works correctly using commands specific > to the XML file... but my goal was to try to put > your > solution into it to make it a "one size fits all" > XSL > stylesheet that could transform ANY XML file that > either HAD Categories and Databases and Websites or > that HAD ONLY Websites in the XML file... > > Does that make sense? > > So, anyway, I looked admiringly at your solution > and then tried for several hours to get your code > to be substituted for the xsl: stuff in the existing > XSL file. > > Needless to say, I have not been able to get this to > work yet. > > I think I still don't have a very good grasp of > how to construct an XSL stylesheet. I really don't > understand where to put the the XSL commands within > the HTML in the stylesheet to make it generate > correct > HTML output... > > I get error messages that I can't fathom, so it gets > > pretty frustrating. > > I was wondering if you could take some time again > to look at our XSL file and XML file and see if you > could insert the code you have shown that works (in > a > simplified page). > > Keep in mind that this XSL file references other XML > files such as: > > http://www.stockton.lib.ca.us/xml_xsl_html_samples/bureau-labor-stats.xm > l > > > I must emphasize that I am certainly not a > programmer. > I am a librarian and learned HTML from the ground > up, > but it was pretty simple compared to XSLT, so I > often > get stumped when I try things out in XSLT. I know > it > is not programming per se, but it can be quite > confusing. > > I was so happy when I got our existing XML and XSL > to > work. > > But, now it seems like we should be able to condense > it all down to one XSL file that would work against > all the Subject and Sub-subject XML files. That is > the goal in all of this... > > So, anyway, if you have time, I would sure > appreciate > any expertise you can apply to my problem. I know > you > can't test it fully since you don't have all the > image > and css files we have here, but if you could > substitute your commands for my commands, I could > bring it back here and test it (AND see if I could > understand how you did it!!) > > So, if you can putter with it, please just use the > designations that are in the files...i.e. > categories, > databases, web_sites... > > And again, thank you very much for being such a good > samaritan. My wife is just getting into the > Internet > and she was amazed at my being able to ask a > question > of a group of XSL experts and people actually taking > the time to try to help. > > --Bill Walker > Reference Dept. > Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. > Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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