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Nov 7th, 2005, 02:31 AM
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 Another XML Problem...
Okay this time I'm having problems with XSL. I'm writing a little practice script so that I can get familiar with the concepts. I have an XML document that looks like this:
HTML Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="yes"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="DictionaryDisp.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE book [
<!ELEMENT book (term+, type_of_speech+, definition+, root+)>
<!ATTLIST book
title CDATA #REQUIRED
isbn CDATA #REQUIRED
publisher CDATA #REQUIRED
type (paperback | hardback) #REQUIRED
>
<!ELEMENT term (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT type_of_speech (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT definition (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT root (#PCDATA)>
]>
<book title="The American Heritage School Dictionary" isbn="0-395-24739-4" publisher="Houghton Mifflin" type="hardback">
<term>a, A</term>
<type_of_speech>noun, plural</type_of_speech>
<definition>The first letter of the English alphabet; The best of highest of a grade, as in school; In music, the sixth tone in the scale of C-major.</definition>
<root>N/A</root>
</book>
I'm still not sure if it's legal, or well-formedness, to have attributes in your root elements (if this is the case, please correct me) but my problem is that I want to display the attributes of the root element in my XSL file and I can't figure out how to get a hold of those peices of information in the XSL file. Any help would be appreciated. 
EDIT: Also, is it better to have, in tems of the XML document in question, an internal or external DTD?
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Nov 13th, 2005, 02:19 PM
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Re: Another XML Problem...
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Nov 14th, 2005, 03:26 PM
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Re: Another XML Problem...
Hi,
Anser to the last question, an external DTD.
With the reltive question about good proactices in XML. XML is an undefined language with not specific set standards of tags, elements and a "formatted" way of writing or setting out your page, much to the opposite of HTML.
There are no good and bad practices in this, onlly if you are interoperating and communicating with other businesses do you need to standardise your tag layout and practice, as it needs to be the same as the other user, so the answer to your question is whatever youre comfortable with.
Duno about your elements question. ill get back to you.
Kai
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Nov 14th, 2005, 08:26 PM
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Re: Another XML Problem...
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Nov 21st, 2005, 10:32 AM
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Re: Another XML Problem...
Hi,
It is possible to display the attributes of the root element. In the XSL file it will look something like this:
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:value-of select="root element/@attribute" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
ie. you navigate to the location of the attribute using Xpath commands
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