How to do XSLT for this?

[mali djuro]

Hi, all!

i am newbie in all this stuffs about xsl, so i have few questions for you,
Please, can you tell me is this possible to do, and if you can please give
me some guide lines.

here is problem or whatever:

i got a following xml file:

<root>
_{<child>
<name>john</child>
<phone>1234</phone>
</child>
<child>
<name>mali</name>
<phone />
</child>
...}
</root>

i want to show this xml in browser in following way:

----------------------------------------------
| TEST |
----------------------------------------------
| child name | child phone |
----------------------------------------------
| john | 1234 |
bgColor=blue
----------------------------------------------
|mali | |
bgcolor=white
----------------------------------------------
....
----------------------------------------------

problem is that i dont know how to change background colour of <tr>.
and also how to check is value of element null or there is something?

please, help!

thanks

 

[Colin Mackenzie]

Hi,

your xml is not well formed (name should be closed with name not child)

colout or a tr, I guess you are saying for every 2nd row bit of an FAQ but
this will work


<xsl:template match="/root/sub">
<table>
<tbody>
<xsl:for-each select="child">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="(position()=1) or (position() mod 2 = 1) ">
<tr bgcolor="blue">
<td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td>
<td>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="phone=''">no phone</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise><xsl:value-of select="phone"/></xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<tr bgcolor="white">
<td><xsl:value-of select="name"/></td>

<td>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="phone=''">no phone</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise><xsl:value-of select="phone"/></xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</td>
</tr>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</tbody>
</table>
</xsl:template>

 

[Klaus Johannes Rusch]

i am newbie in all this stuffs about xsl, so i have few questions for you,
Please, can you tell me is this possible to do, and if you can please give
me some guide lines.

here is problem or whatever:

i want to show this xml in browser in following way:

Define templates for each element that output the desired HTML code, and apply
templates for contained elements. The samples in the XSLT specification, or a
decent XSLT book such as Michael Kay's or Doug Tidwell's certainly will help,
too.

problem is that i dont know how to change background colour of <tr>.

Not exactly an XSLT problem but here you go:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="red">
</td>
<td bgcolor="red">
</td>
</tr>

You can check if the position of your element is even or odd, and use
different colors accordingly.

and also how to check is value of element null or there is something?

Even for an element without content you will still want to include the <td>,
you could do something like

<td>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="phone/text() = ''"> </xsl:when>
<xsltherwise><xsl:value-of select="phone/text()" />
</xsl:choose>
</td>

if you want to include a non-breaking space (or some other information, like
N/A) for empty cells.

 

[mali djuro]

thanks,

it was typing mistake with name and child