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XSLT Doing my brain in....

Paul King
8/26/2004 3:50:41 PM

dotnet xml: Hi there,

I have a raw XML order file with the following structure

<root>
<header>
<body>

Ok the HEADER contains details about the XML msg and its originator etc -
pretty pointless stuff
The BODY however contains multiple Orders with descriptions and QTY's etc.

I have such designed an XSL basic sheet which allows me to fetch XML data
into a table using the FOR-EACH routine.

For example here is a little snippet:

<xsl:for-each
select="Orders_Envelope/body/Orders/OrderLines/OrderLineDetail">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="Product/Description"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for each>

The resulting page only however fetches back the first product description
from the file not others. Why is this?

Any help would be great
Paul

Re: XSLT Doing my brain in....

Jason Sobell
9/2/2004 12:01:04 AM

Hi Paul,
The appropriate way to do this is to use the apply-templates method, so
you have something like:

<xsl:for-each
select="Orders_Envelope/body/Orders/OrderLines/OrderLineDetail">
<tr>
<xsl:apply-templates select="Product/Description"/>
</tr>
</xsl:for each>

<xsl:template match="Description">
<td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
</xsl:template>

Without seeing your source XML it's difficult to say exactly, but you
rarely need to use the for-each construct, as the template will be called
for every node that matches the select= statement.

Cheers,
Jason

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Re: XSLT Doing my brain in....

Paul King
9/6/2004 4:35:02 PM

Thanks guys - I think its just my inexperience with this technology

I think I have got it covered.

Cheers
Paul.

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