Converting the XSL example details
into HTML
We need to create links for
each of the stylesheet examples. To do this we iterate through each stylesheet
example and create a string that contains HTML links to each stylesheet.
An example of a stylesheet
node is
 <XSLexample
id="1" desc="example1">
<xslFile>test1.xsl</xslFile>
<xslTextTitle>Example
1: the first xsl</xslTextTitle>
<xslText>Doesn't
do much but its different to the other XSL's</xslText>
The code to retrieve this and
put it into HTML format is:
'Initialise and clear the
string that will hold the HTML for the links
xslLinksHTML=""
'Loop through each example node
for
each example in XSLexamples
'Build the HREF attribute of the HTML <a> element
xslLinksHTML=xslLinksHTML
& "<a href=examples.asp?id=" &exampleID & "&xsl="
& example.getAttribute("id") & ">"
'Display the name
of the link. This is the 'desc' attribute of the example node
xslLinksHTML=xslLinksHTML
& example.getAttribute("desc") & "</a>"
next
This will produce a string
containing the HTML for the links of each stylesheet. In the case of the
example XML we were using on page 1 the
string will contain
<a href=examples.asp?id=2&xsl=1>example1</a><a
href=examples.asp?id=2&xsl=2>example2</a>
Once we've created the links
for each XSL example we need to create one to display the XML itself.
This is done by adding a parameter called 'xml' to the querystring of
the ASP. The value of 'xml' doesn't matter as the existance of 'xml' is
all that is checked for. For the example on page
1 this will look like
<a href=examples.asp?id=2&xsl=1&xml=1>View
XML </a>
This is created with
xslLinksHTML=xslLinksHTML
& "<a href=examples.asp?id=" &exampleID &"&xsl="
&XSLid & "&xml=1>View XML</a>"
While
we're looping through each XSL example we might as well check to see if
the XSL example we are looking at is the one that we want to display.
If it is then we can get the title and explanation associated with it.
If we place this code within the for-each...next loop above then we can
check if we're looking at the correct XSL example. If it is then we can
set the variable 'message' to be a string containing the HTML for the
XSL example title & explanation
'Check if the example node
we are looking at is the XSL example we need
'If it is then get the explanation details
if XSLid=example.getAttribute("id")
then
'Get the name of the XSL file
XSLfile=example.selectSingleNode("XSLFile").text
'Get the message title and put in bold verdana font of size 2
messageTitle="<b><font
face=verdana size=2>" & example.selectSingleNode ("xslTextTitle").text
& "</font></b></br>"
'Get the explanation text
messageText=example.selectSingleNode("XSLText").text
'Some explanations have HTML in them so replace the '<' &
'>' characters with < and > respectively so that the
tags will be displayed
messageText
= replace(messageText,"<","<")
messageText=replace(messageText,">",">")
'Put the messageTitle and messageText into one variable
message=messageTitle
& messageText
end if
After
we've done this, we will have all of the details of the XSL example. Now
we just need to get the main details of the demo. Again, we build a string
containing the HTML we want to display.
'Get the demo title
headerText="<h3>
& demo.selectSingleNode("Title").text & " by "
'Get the name of the author and create a mailto link
headerText=headerText
& "<a href=mailto:" &demo.selectSingleNode("email").text
&">"
headerText=headerText
& demo.selectSingleNode("Author").text &"</a></h3>"
'Get the header text of the demo
headerText=headerText
& demo.selectSingleNode("heading").text
Now that we've got all details
we need from the XML we can finally apply the XSL stylesheet to the XML,
which is shown on page 4
|
Email TopXML