XSL Help Needed

head8k

02-06-2003, 02:56 PM

Please could somebody write me an XSL stylesheet to display this RSS feed:

http://diveintomark.org/xml/fosnews.php

I have written code to fetch and store a local copy of the feed which I then want to parse (using XSL on the server-side) into HTML for a webpage.

Why is XSL so difficult to write? :confused: I would be very grateful for an example.

mpjbrennan

02-07-2003, 01:11 PM

Here's a very quick attempt - I'm sure it can be improved upon. For example, I haven't figured out yet how to deal with all the < and > url's in the description paragraphs.

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel">

<xsl:apply-templates />

 
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel/description">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

 
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel/link">

<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="." /></xsl:attribute>
link
</a>

 
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel/webMaster">

Webmaster - <xsl:apply-templates/>

 
<hr/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel/language">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel/item">
<xsl:for-each select="title">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

 
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="description">

<xsl:apply-templates/>

 
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="link">

<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="." /></xsl:attribute>
link
</a>

 
</xsl:for-each>
 
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

brothercake

02-07-2003, 01:16 PM

Originally posted by mpjbrennan
Here's a very quick attempt - I'm sure it can be improved upon. For example, I haven't figured out yet how to deal with all the < and > url's in the description paragraphs.

Could you not just dump the whole node into a paragraph - the entities will appear as < > in the final thing, thereby turning into links by themselves ..?

mpjbrennan

02-07-2003, 01:18 PM

That's what my stylesheet does - the links appears as <a></a> combinations but they don't have href attributes and don't respond to the mouse.

patrick

mpjbrennan

02-07-2003, 03:32 PM

Here's a tidied-up version - but I still can't figure out those > < entities!

patrick

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>RSS feed</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="channel">

<xsl:value-of select="title" />

> > > >

<xsl:value-of select="description" />

 

Contact the Webmaster - <a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">mailTo:<xsl:value-of select='webMaster'/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select='webMaster'/>
</a>



<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="link" /></xsl:attribute>
visit the Foundation's site</a>

 

<xsl:value-of select="language"/>

<hr/>
<xsl:for-each select="item">

<xsl:value-of select="title"/>

 

<xsl:value-of select="description"/>

 

<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="link" /></xsl:attribute>
Link to source
</a>

 
 
</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

head8k

02-07-2003, 10:33 PM

Thanks guys I will try this out at work when I'm back in on Tuesday.

I can see why the hyperlinks would be a problem. Strictly speaking they shouldn't be included within the description tag but in my experience people always bung whatever they like into an XML document without considering the consequences!

mpjbrennan

02-08-2003, 04:55 AM

You might find another problem with the description tags - the author has bunged in some unclosed tags.

patrick