Re: [xsl] Dynamically Creating HTML Links, actual snippet

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 11:11 AM 11/30/2006, you wrote:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO_8859-1"?>
>
> <show>
>
> <slide>
>         <heading>Dog hobbies</heading>
>         <contents>The dog likes to watch
> television.</contents>
> </slide>
>
> <slide>
>         <heading>Dog food</heading>
>         <contents>The dog likes to eat
> Kenlration.</contents>
> </slide>
>
> <slide>
>         <heading>Dog sleeping</heading>
>         <contents>The dog likes to sleep on the
> bed.</contents>
> </slide>
>
> </show>
>
> and the following. . .
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0">
>     <xsl:output method="html" encoding="ISO_8859-1"/>
>     <!-- DEFINE THE DOCUMENT LEVEL TEMPLATE -->
>     <xsl:include href="basichtmlformatting.xsl"/>
>     <xsl:template match="slide">
>         <div class="about">
>             <xsl:apply-templates/>
>
> <!-- what do I do here to create an html link from
> each slide to the next slide? something of the format
> "slide01.html" -->

<xsl:variable name="next-slide-filename">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::slide" mode="filename"/>
</xsl:variable>

<div class="navbar">
  <a href="{$next-slide-filename}">Next</a>
</div>

...
</xsl:template>

and (elsewhere in your stylesheet)

<xsl:template match="slide" mode="filename"/>
  <xsl:text>slide</xsl:text>
  <xsl:number format="01"/>
  <xsl:text>.html</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

... which is a general purpose template you can use for any slide to 
get its name (so also useful for the previous and first slides, etc.).

The 'next-slide-filename' variable will come out empty when there is 
no next slide. This is easy to test.

Cheers,
Wendell



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