Re: [xsl] Recursively Generating Menu and Sub-Menu items

[Rashmi Rubdi <dev_subscriptions@xxxxxxxxx>]

:) 

That code is neat.

 Thank you very much for the solution, I appreciate
your help.

-Regards
Rashmi

----- Original Message ----
From: Gabriel Osorio
<gosorio@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday,
February 16, 2007 9:07:19 PM
Subject: RE: [xsl] Recursively Generating Menu
and Sub-Menu items


Good exercise!!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";;>
    <xsl:output
method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
    <xsl:template match="item">
<ul>
            <li>
                <xsl:value-of select="name" />
</li>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="item" />
        </ul>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


-----Original Message-----
From: Rashmi
Rubdi [mailto:dev_subscriptions@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007
7:50 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Recursively
Generating Menu and Sub-Menu items

Hello Everyone, 

I'm still learning XSLT
while also learning other languages so it has been a
little slow for me to
pick things up with each language.

I did some searching on my problem, and
came accross a few similar threads
but the code they demostrated was rather
large and contained unrelated code
with it, so it was a little difficult to
understand the desired solution.

I want to recursively generate nested menus
with XSLT with the menu
structured inside an XML. 
I have a sample XML
structure which is supposed to represent a Menu
hierarchy as follows:

(Please
note that I'm flexible with any other XML structure that represents
a nested
menu, if it helps to improves the XSLT solution)

<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<item>
    <name>Main Menu</name>
    <item>
<name>First Level Item</name>
        <item>
            <name>Second Level
Item</name>
            <item>
                <name>Third Level Item</name>
</item>
        </item>
    </item>
    <item>
        <name>ABC</name>
<item>
            <name>XYZ</name>
        </item>
        <item>
<name>PQR</name>
        </item>
        <item>
            <name>LMN</name>
</item>
    </item>
</item>

The desired output is in the form of an HTML
nested list as follows:

<ul>
     <li>Main Menu
        <ul>
<li>First Level Item
                <ul>
                    <li>Second Level
Item
                        <ul>
                            <li>Third Level
Item</li>
                        </ul>
                    </li>
</ul>
            </li>
            <li>ABC
                <ul>
<li>XYZ</li>
                    <li>PQR</li>
                    <li>LMN</li>
</ul>
            </li>
        </ul>
     </li>
</ul>

I have tried to
generate the above output with the following XSLT 1.0 :

<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";;>

    <xsl:output
method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

    <xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="item"/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template
match="item">
        <ul>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="name"/>
</ul>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="name">
        <li>
<xsl:value-of select="name"/>
        </li>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

but the above xslt generates this ouput: <ul><li/></ul>
Any help is appreciated.

-Regards
Rashmi
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