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Subject: Re: splitting into separate files and linking
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:11:24 -0700
At 99/06/17 22:22 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>Using XT's facilities, I have it almost working by borrowing stuff
>from James Clark:
>...
>This works fine, making eg "N110.html" from a <div0>. The problem
>comes when I want to put in a navigation bar. James has a plausible example:
>
><xsl:if test="from-preceding-siblings(div0)">
>  <a href="{from-preceding-siblings(div0[1])/@name}.html">Previous
article</a>
></xsl:if>
>
>but this uses a `name' attribute for the div0 (which I don't have, and
>don't really want), and I do not see how to get the generated-id()
>function to do its stuff in this context.

Since generate-id() has an optional node set as an argument, you can use:

<xsl:if test="from-preceding-siblings(div0)">
  <a href="{generate-id(from-preceding-siblings(div0[1]))}.html">Previous
article</a>
</xsl:if>

... as in the example below.

I hope this helps.

...... Ken


T:\ftemp>type test.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<test>
  <div0/>
  <div0/>
  <div0/>
</test>
T:\ftemp>type test.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";
                result-ns="">

<xsl:template match="/">                    <!--root rule-->
  <xsl:for-each select="//div0">
    <a name="{$file}">Test</a>
    <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:if test="from-preceding-siblings(div0)">
      <a href="{generate-id(from-preceding-siblings(div0[1]))}.html"
        >Previous article</a>
      <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


T:\ftemp>call xsl test.xml test.xsl test.htm
T:\ftemp>type test.htm
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<a name="">Test</a>
<a name="">Test</a>
<a href="N3.html">Previous article</a>
<a name="">Test</a>
<a href="N5.html">Previous article</a>


T:\ftemp>


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