Re: Creating different types of output

Hi Laurie,

My first reaction is that your template match is too specific.  For every
<dpsrecord>, you're re-writing the output file, including HTML header/title
info.

I suspect that some kind of "xsl:for-each"/"xsl:sort" magic will do the
trick.  I hope to play with this later today, because I think it's an
interesting problem.

Of course, if you already have a solution, I would appreciate seeing it.
:-)

-Alan
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----- Original Message -----
From: Laurie Mann <laurie.mann@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 7:37 AM
Subject: Creating different types of output


> About two months ago, I converted one of my HTML sites
> (Dead People Server - http://www.dpsinfo.com/index.shtml) to XML.
> The XML source file is a long series of alphabetized records,
> each cluster of alphabetized records enclosed by a pair of "dpsletter"
tags.
> The alphabetic listings are created using a simple XSLT translation.
>
> I would also like to create annual listings from the same source,
> and I didn't think it would be all that hard.  However,
> it seems to require more programming
> skills than I have (which are close-to-none).
>
> The source file has all the years coded in the XML file. When I run
> my "build year" script, I get one HTML file for each year.  However, I
> only get one record for each year, and that record is always the last
> alphabetical listing for that year.  So what seems to be happening
> is that each time a new year is encountered, the year output file is
> completely
> overwritten, rather than the new record being appended to the
> existing output file.
>
> Is there an easy answer to this problem?
>
>
> XML file excerpt:
>
> <set>
> ...
> <dpsletter>
> ...
>
>
<dpsrecord><name><firstname>Don</firstname><lastname>Ameche</lastname></name
> ><job>actor</job><dead
>
value="yes"></dead><deathdate><month>Dec</month><day>6</day><year>1993</year
>
><birthdate><month>May</month><day>31</day><year>1908></year></birthdate><ot
> her>Made a comeback in <movie>Cocoon</movie></other></dpsrecord>
>
> ....
>
> <dpsrecord><ulink
>
url="http://cnnsi.com/tennis/features/1997/arthurashe/biography.html";><name>
>
<firstname>Arthur</firstname><lastname>Ashe</lastname></name></ulink><job>te
> nnis great/writer</job><dead value="yes">
>
</dead><cause>AIDS</cause><deathdate><month>Feb</month><day>6</day><year>199
>
3</year></deathdate><birthdate><month>Jul</month><day>10</day><year>1943</ye
> ar></birthdate><other>Broke the color barrier in men's tennis, wrote a
very
> moving memoir, <ulink
> url="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345386817/awardwebcollectiA/";
> value="amazon"><book>Days of Grace</book></other></dpsrecord>
>
> ...
> </dpsletter>
> ...
> </set>
>
>
>
> XSL file excerpt:
>
>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                 xmlns:xt="http://www.jclark.com/xt"; version="1.0"
>                 extension-element-prefixes="xt">
> <!-- XML structure and XSL script copyright 2000 Laurie D. T. Mann -->
>
> <xsl:output method="html" indent="no"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="set/dpsletter/dpsrecord">
> <xsl:variable name="filename"><xsl:value-of
> select="deathdate/year"/></xsl:variable>
>   <xt:document href="{concat($filename,'.shtml')}">
> <html><head><xsl:text>
>      </xsl:text>
>        <title>Dead People Server - People Who Died in the Year
> <xsl:value-of select="deathdate/year"/></title><xsl:text>
>      </xsl:text>
>        <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="dps.css" TYPE="text/css" /><xsl:text>
>      </xsl:text>
> </head>
> <body>
>        <ul>
>      <xsl:apply-templates/>
>        </ul>       </body>
>        </html>
>   </xt:document>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ........
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> HTML OUTPUT:
>
>
> <html><head>
>      <title>Dead People Server - People Who Died in the Year 1993</title>
>      <LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="dps.css" TYPE="text/css">
>      </head><body><ul> <a
>
href="http://cnnsi.com/tennis/features/1997/arthurashe/biography.html";><span
> class="name">Arthur  Ashe</span> </a>
>      (tennis great/writer) --  Dead.  AIDS.    Died Feb 6, 1993.
>      Born Jul 10, 1943. Broke the color barrier in men's tennis, wrote a
> very moving memoir, <a
>
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345386817/awardwebcollectiA/";
> class="am"><i>Days of Grace</i></a></ul></body></html>
>
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list


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