Hi Vasu,
I think we may be wandering away from this list's focus. If so, someone
please let me know if there is somewhere else I can go that would be more
appropriate. What I want to do is invoke an XSLT processor in the client
browser or on my host webserver, but I am not sure that is an actual XSLT
question.
That said:
I don't need all the code, I just need to understand - as you suggested -
how to position a Java Query or JavaScript call in place of what is now the
href, then how to execute an XSLT stylesheet in either of those languages.
Right now, my content XML document contains the names of about 600 jpg
images; it will eventually contain the names of over 3000 jpg images with
associated text. A sample entry would be:
<Stamp>
<CatNumbers number="635"/>
<Value kc-value="3"/>
<Inscriptions czech="Pravda vC-tDzC-" eng="Truth Prevails"/>
</Stamp>
The excerpt I gave in the original email is from one of my indexing html
documents :
<a href="../aip/635.htm"> <img src="../cr/small/635.jpg" alt="stamp
image"/></a>
and was generated from that XML with an XSLT stylesheet, as was the 635.htm
page referred to in the href. However, having generated 600 of those static
pages, I think I need to look for a different solution before I reach 3000
static pages. So, essentially what I want to do is substitute something in
place of the href that would generate the "635.htm" page on the fly with
XSLT when the user asks for it.
To better understand the problem, you can see the current static code in
action at www.cpslib.org -- simply click on the "Years" button, then on any
stamp image. That will open the current static page with the large image
static htm page that I would like to replace with an on-demand XSLT
generated version (a virtual instead of a static page). By the way, every
static page on the current website is already generated using XSLT
stylesheets off-line.
I found out I have PHP active on my web hosting server, and it is supposed
to be able to invoke an XSLT processor, but I am having no luck with the
xslt_create() and xslt_process() functions. - the PHP does work, but I have
not been able to get the Sablotron and expat libraries to work. Since I
don't know PHP, likely I am the problem. However, I would prefer not to use
PHP.
Hope this explains things a bit better.
Thanks for offering your comments,
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Vasu Chakkera
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:07 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Client-side XSLT
Hi Mark,
what does your XML look like? Does it have the content of what each
image would display? Please give more information ... Mostly you need
some kind of combination of Javascript and XSLT. As I said, i need to
know more on where the content is coming from
On 24 September 2011 17:04, Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a stylesheet that generates XHMTL like:
>
Right now, clicking on the 635.jpg images opens the 635.htm page.
The difficulty is that in the final project, the aip/n.htm files would
number more than 3000 if each were constructed individually. Those pages
are
quite simple and contain only an image and a few lines of text. What I am
looking for is a way to launch an XSLT style sheet that would build the
page
within the browser on demand.
My idea is that clicking on the small/635.jpg image on my XHTML page would
launch a stylesheet to build the 636.htm page. I need some hints on how to
get started, where to look, or to know that this is not a good idea.
Thanks,
Mark
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Vasu Chakkera
NodeLogic Limited
Oxford
www.node-logic.com
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