Templates

• <xsl:stylesheet />
• First on your xsl page
• Top Level
• <xsl:template match="*">
• Ensures that only the lines you want processed, will be processed
• <xsl:template match="xxx">
• Source for XML
• Working example for IE5
• root.htm the xsl document
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• <xsl:template match="xxx" mode="m"> Doesn't work, yet
• This is the default template for the mode attribute
• Source for XML
• Working example for IE5
• root.htm the xsl document
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• <xsl:output
• Source for XML
• Html output
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• XML output
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• Text output
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• Modularity
• <xsl:apply-templates match="xxx">
• Source for XML
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• priority -- defines which template will take precedence
• Source for XML
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• <xsl:call-template name="xxx">
• Source for XML
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• Below Top Level
• <xsl:value-of >
• select="xxx"
• Source for XML
• Working example for IE5
• root.htm the xsl document
• Working example for IE6
• root6.htm the xsl document for IE6
• Looping and sorting
• <xsl:for-each select="xxx">
  • saved as dataA.xml by attribute
  • xslA.txt
  • xmlA.txt
  • order-by
    • <xsl:for-each select="xxx" order-by="xxx">
    • need a + or a -
    • (only works for alphabetical, for numbers it goes: 1 10 11 12 13 ... 2 20 21 22 .... 3 30 31 32 33 ..... and so on, so add your zeros)
    • working copy by element
    • xslE.htm
    • xmlE.htm
  • order
  • <xsl:for-each select="xxx" order="ascending">
  • <xsl:for-each select="xxx" order="descending">
  • <xsl:sort select="xxx">
    • (only works for alphabetical, for numbers it goes: 1 10 11 12 13 ... 2 20 21 22 .... 3 30 31 32 33 ..... and so on, so add your zeros)
    • saved as dataA.xml by attribute
    • xslA.txt
    • xmlA.txt
• Conditionals
• <xsl:if test ="xxx">
  • saved as dataA.xml by attribute
  • xslA.txt
  • xmlA.txt
• <xsl:when match ="xxx">
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• <xsl:choose>
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• <xsl:otherwise test ="xxx">
  • saved as otherwise.xml by element
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• Copy
• Makes a tree-fragment, not a real node of the tree, cannot be searched directly
  • have to use nodeset() to search the result
• <xsl:copy select="xxx">
  • Makes a shallow copy -- copies only the node and any namespace - no descendants or attributes
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• <xsl:copy-of select="xxx">
  • Makes a deep copy -- copies the node and any namespace -and descendants and attributes
• Number
• <xsl:number />
  • level="single"
  • node's position in relation to siblings in XML page
  • level="any"
  • impose your own number system on result tree
  • level=" multiple"
  • numbers sections and sub-sections
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• Text
• <xsl:text />
  • puts a text string into the result tree
  • preserves whitespace
  • disable-output-escaping="yes"
  • if omitted, result tree will contain &lt;
  • if value = yes, result tree will contain <
  • The working example shows nothing
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• Element
• <xsl:element name="xxx">
  • Convert attributes to elements source tree
  • <xsl:attribute-set> defines which attributes to use with the element
  • Allows a namespace attribute, for more control over the namespace than including the element as literal text in the stylesheet
  • The working example shows nothing
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• Attribute
• <xsl:attribute name="src">
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• Include
• <xsl:include href="myinclude.xsl" />
• use "priority=" to insure visibility and correctness, or your calling page will override your template
• only use ONE <xsl:template match="/" > .... element for all the pages, combined
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • includedXsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm
• Imports
• <xsl:import href="myinclude.xsl" /> -- have to be child elements of <xsl:stylesheet>
• only use ONE <xsl:template match="/" > .... element for all the pages, combined
  • working copy by element
  • xsl.htm
  • includedXsl.htm
  • xmlSource.htm

XSL Explanation

Templates -- built-in templates, adding modularity, includes and imports

Templates Examples--

XSL Namespaces-- using namespaces with XSL

XPath -- getting around XSL

XPath Examples

Functions-- using functions

Functions Examples

Variables and Parameters