Stylesheets - newbie xsl / xslt question

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newbie xsl / xslt question

dbahooker@hotmail.com

2006-08-28, 6:39 pm

Team;

I'm kindof a newbie around these parts :)
I'm trying to replace TAB characters ( ) with </TD><TD>.. so that I
can properly align this XML into multiple cells in a table.

yes-- right now it is living as XML, tab delimited data.. and I want to
push it into 5 different cells.

here is the result: it's displaying this in IE instead of under view
source:
0.1</td><td>29-Sep-2004</td><td>Draft</td><td>Dba
Hooker</td><td>Initial Draft0

under view / source; it's displaying a similiar thing but it shows up
as HTML tags; instead of as HTML source.

thanks SO much for your help guys!!

here is my template call
--------------------------------------------------------------------
<xsl:template match="Property[@name='CHistory']">
<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
<xsl:with-param name="text"><xsl:copy-of select="."
/></xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="from"> </xsl:with-param>
<xsl:with-param name="to"></td><td></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

here is a replace-string function I've found
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<xsl:template name="replace-string">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="from"/>
<xsl:param name="to"/>

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, $from)">

<xsl:variable name="before" select="substring-before($text, $from)"/>
<xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($text, $from)"/>
<xsl:variable name="prefix" select="concat($before, $to)"/>

<xsl:value-of select="$before"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$to"/>
<xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$after"/>
<xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from"/>
<xsl:with-param name="to" select="$to"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

dbahooker@hotmail.com

2006-08-29, 6:45 pm

this did the trick!!

<xsl:template match="Property[@name='CHistory']">
<tr><xsl:call-template name="split" /></tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="split">
<xsl:param name="text" select="." />
<xsl:param name="delim" select="' '" />

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text,$delim)">
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$delim)" />
</td>
<xsl:call-template name="split">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$delim)"
/>
<xsl:with-param name="delim" select="$delim" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="$text" />
</td>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

dbahooker@hotmail.com wrote:
> Team;
>
> I'm kindof a newbie around these parts :)
> I'm trying to replace TAB characters ( ) with </TD><TD>.. so that I
> can properly align this XML into multiple cells in a table.
>
> yes-- right now it is living as XML, tab delimited data.. and I want to
> push it into 5 different cells.
>
> here is the result: it's displaying this in IE instead of under view
> source:
> 0.1</td><td>29-Sep-2004</td><td>Draft</td><td>Dba
> Hooker</td><td>Initial Draft0
>
> under view / source; it's displaying a similiar thing but it shows up
> as HTML tags; instead of as HTML source.
>
>
> thanks SO much for your help guys!!
>
>
> here is my template call
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> <xsl:template match="Property[@name='CHistory']">
> <xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
> <xsl:with-param name="text"><xsl:copy-of select="."
> /></xsl:with-param>
> <xsl:with-param name="from"> </xsl:with-param>
> <xsl:with-param name="to"></td><td></xsl:with-param>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
>
> here is a replace-string function I've found
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> <xsl:template name="replace-string">
> <xsl:param name="text"/>
> <xsl:param name="from"/>
> <xsl:param name="to"/>
>
> <xsl:choose>
> <xsl:when test="contains($text, $from)">
>
> <xsl:variable name="before" select="substring-before($text, $from)"/>
> <xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($text, $from)"/>
> <xsl:variable name="prefix" select="concat($before, $to)"/>
>
> <xsl:value-of select="$before"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="$to"/>
> <xsl:call-template name="replace-string">
> <xsl:with-param name="text" select="$after"/>
> <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$from"/>
> <xsl:with-param name="to" select="$to"/>
> </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:when>
> <xsl:otherwise>
> <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
> </xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>