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Proper way to use XSL for HTML output?
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- Subject: [xsl] Proper way to use XSL for HTML output?
- From: "Kevin Duffey" <kevin dot duffey at home dot com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:58:22 -0800
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Hi there,
I am curious what others are doing when creating XSL pages to transform
dynamic XML (via JSP output of well-formed tags) into HTML. I simply do
something like this:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="page">
<html><head></head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<xsl:for-each select="menu/link">
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="target">
<xsl:value-of select="@target"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="@name"/></a>  
</xsl:for-each>
</div>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If I want to add more in between the <body></body>, I just do it right down
the list, as if I was doing normal HTML. I originally tried the "template"
format, where you call various templates in the main template, then define
each of those templates at the bottom of the page. I don't know which way is
best though. The way I am doing it now seems more like how HTML is usually
done (manually anyways). Is there a proper way, a "standard" way, or just do
it how I want as long as it works?
Thanks.
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