xsl highlight function breaking html tags - XML / XSL Discussion Boards

Hi there.

I have this:

<resource identifier="32413BBC_D42E_4E72_9C2B_5CCFB9662DD1" width="380" height="280" type="image/jpeg">
<uri>img024.jpg</uri>
<title>
<![CDATA[ Securing and Configuring Exchange Distributed Services Using IIS Lockdown
]]>
</title>
</resource>

I can get the <uri> value, but i cannot get the <title> value. Can anyone help with this??

Thanks

-- modified at 0:57 Saturday 16th June, 2007

what cant you get? a little more information please.
And i think this should ba a screenshot?
cheers

Icarus123 wrote:
but i cannot get the <title> value.

w3schools.com wrote:
Everything inside a CDATA section is ignored by the parser.

CDATA[^]

For a simple example, I have an access database which has 2 columns:

Let's say one column is InputXML and other column is OutputXML that we want.
This contains the mapping rules.
The table structure is as follows:

INPUTXML OUTPUTXML
Fname First Name
Lname Last Name

So basically Fname in input XML should be changed to First Name in output XML. So the database just has the mapping rules for the transformation and not the values.

Now the task is to create a dot net windows application that has a button called GENERATE XSLT . On clicking this button, it should dynamically generate the XSLT taking the mapping rules from the database. In other words instead of hardcoding the XSLT , based on the DB mapping rules like Fname to FirstName etc, it should just generate the code for XSLT in a txt file or XSL file, which is the code which does the transformation.

So basically an XSLT code generator should be written.

Someone said there is a function call or API in dot net which generates the xslt template, I just have to define the relationships among them using values from DB. Not even sure what this means.

Any help on how to approach solving this problem or some starting idea (some psuedo code or anything ) would be great, I am learning Dot net as well as XML/XSLT.

If you are aware of the API also, please let me know as it will save me some searching time. Hope someone helps.

Thanks,
Sdee

sdee

sdee2 wrote:
Someone said there is a function call or API in dot net which generates the xslt template

System.Xml.Xsl.XslTransform is the XSLT processor but I am not aware of any library that generates XSLT. However XSLT "is" XML so you can use any of the XML mechanisms to create XSLT.

Hello, it's me again :p

I'm searching on the web for over two hours now, but I have not found what I am looking for.

So... can anyone provide me a link to a list of all possible xml character sets?

charset example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="gb2312" ?>

-> gb2312 == Chinese

Thank You!! Smile | :)

~uumppa

finaly I found the list Big Grin | :-D

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

hello,
Ive come across a highlight function that i was able to add to a search feature i have on a page. however the current method it uses will wrap text that is found even inside of html so its making the tags no longer work. has anyone dealt with this type of thing before?

here's the highlighter template
example of problem
$text = <a href="http://www.walkthroughs.com">Simple steps to walkthrough</a>
$what = walk
output=<a href="http://www.walkthroughs.com">Simple steps to walkthrough</a>
<code> <xsl:template name="highlighter">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:param name="what"/>
<xsl:variable name="test-text">
<xsl:call-template name="lower">
<xsl:with-param name="tolower" select="$text" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="test-what">
<xsl:call-template name="lower">
<xsl:with-param name="tolower" select="$what" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($test-text, $test-what)">
<xsl:variable name="before" select="substring-before($test-text,$test-what)"/>
<xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($test-text,$test-what)"/>
<xsl:variable name="real-before" select="substring($text, 1,string-length($before))"/>
<xsl:variable name="real-after" select="substring($text,string-length($before) + string-length($what) + 1)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$real-before" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$what" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<xsl:call-template name="highlighter">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="$real-after"/>
<xsl:with-param name="what" select="$what"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template></code>

Id appreciate any insight on this. i thought that perhaps i could examine for an unclosed < in before variable and unopened > in after but im not sure what the best way to do this would be

Thanks in advance

werD, MCP

this is what im thinking.

the higlighter template uses before term and after

so
$text = <a href="http://www.walkthroughs.com">Simple steps to walkthrough</a>
$what = walk

before1 = <a href="http://www.
term1 = walk
after1 =throughs.com">Simple steps to walkthrough</a>

im thinking that i can use a reverse function and have
before1rev = .www//:ptth"=ferh a<
after1rev = >a/<hguorhtklaw ot spets elpmiS>"moc.shguorht

i was thinking i could run some logic off of that to get an intended result but now im just dizzy :S

any thoughts?

CODE
<xsl:template name="nonhtmlreplace">
<xsl:param name="before" />
<xsl:param name="before-reversed"/>
<xsl:param name="after" />
<xsl:param name="after-reversed" />
<xsl:param name="what" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($before-reversed,'<') and not(contains($before-reversed,'>'))">
/\<xsl:value-of select="$before" disable-output-escaping="yes"/><xsl:value-of select="$what" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length(substring-before($before-reversed,'<')) < string-length(substring-before($before-reversed,'>'))">
<xsl:value-of select="$before" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

<xsl:value-of select="$what" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
-<xsl:value-of select="$before" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$what" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

here's the reverse function im using

CODE
<xsl:template name="reverse">
<xsl:param name="theString"/>

<xsl:variable name="thisLength" select="string-length($theString)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$thisLength = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="$theString"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:variable name="restReverse">
<xsl:call-template name="reverse">
<xsl:with-param name="theString"
select="substring($theString, 1, $thisLength -1)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of
select="concat(substring($theString,
$thisLength,
1
)
,$restReverse
)"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Hello. I have the doc. representing the message. It consists of header and body and has the following structure:

<br />
<message><br />
   <header>blah-blah-blah</header><br />
   <body/><br />
</message><br />

Of course I can define all of these with xsd.
But the body element can only be of 1 of the following forms:

<br />
<body type="SIMPLE"><br />
  <el1>string contents</el1> <br />
</body><br />

or

<br />
<body type="COMPLEX"><br />
  <el2>int contents</el2> <br />
  <el3>int contents</el3> <br />
</body><br />

I can define this with xs:group's, but without attribute restrictions. Unfortunately, groups can't include xs:attribute.
Any ideas how to define it with xsd?

Ok so I made an XML data sheet that works fine, but i know i will need the data. So i need to be able to make the XML display the correct info according to the id="" How do I do this?

script.js:
//parser start
var xmlDoc;
function loadXML(){
//load xml file
// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
xmlDoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlDoc.async=false;
xmlDoc.load("product_info.xml");
getmessage();
}
// code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
{
xmlDoc=document.implementation.createDocument("","",null);
xmlDoc.load("product_info.xml");
xmlDoc.onload=getmessage;
}
else
{
alert('Your browser cannot handle this script');
}
}
// Actual message maker
function getmessage()
{
document.getElementById("name").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("name")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.getElementById("file_size").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("file_size")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.getElementById("summary").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("summary")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.getElementById("version").innerHTML=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("version")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
}
//parser end
function dio(){
window.open("dio.html")
}

dio.html:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="SHORTCUT ICON" href="images/logo_orig/info.ico" />
<script src="script.js"></script>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Product Info</title>
</head>
<body onload="loadXML()" bgcolor="#fffacd" text="#000000" link="FF4500">
<center>
<h1>Product Information</h1>
</center>

File Name: 
File Size: 
File Summary: 
File Version: 

</body>
</html>

product_info.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<products>
<download>
<name>Bustin' Blox</name>
<file_size>2 Mb</file_size>
<summary>Our version of Brick. Only One Level (Kinda Sucks)</summary>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</download>
</products>

hallo? Any one there?

Hi,

I want to fetch the soap envelope every time when I call the web service.
Currently I m passing the values in object and the object gets passed into the Web method. I need that Soap envelope what dot net internally generate to call this web service.

run your service in the browser and it'll display you its specification: all public methods and their call signatures

No...
this is not what I m looking for...
I am calling a web service by passing an object to the Web method. Now I want that soap envelope that .net generating internally.

i`ve a xml file name myxml.xml which is as follows:

<RPS>
<RP>
<Paper_title>abcd</Paper_title>
<Authors>
<Author>rony</Author>
<Author>tony</Author>
<Author>sony</Author>
</Authors>
<Journal_or_Conference>abcd</Journal_or_Conference>
</RP>
<RP>
<Paper_title>abcd</Paper_title>
<Authors>
<Author>dip</Author>
<Author>tom</Author>
<Author>adam</Author>
</Authors>
<Journal_or_Conference>abcd</Journal_or_Conference>
</RP>
<RP>
<Paper_title>abcd</Paper_title>
<Authors>
<Author>mark</Author>
<Author>tony</Author>
<Author>bruce</Author>
</Authors>
<Journal_or_Conference>abcd</Journal_or_Conference>
</RP>

</RPS>

i want to write a xsl file that makes the above xml file in tabular format as following:

Authors Paper title Journal or Conference Year Pages

and also if Author is tony then the text tony should be in bold.

Check out the XSLT tutorial on www.w3schools.com. If I remember well the example they provide does just this.

Hi guys i have one query,

I created textboxes dynamamicaly. when i select 2 in dropdown list two text boxes will come same i will select 100 or more. that i created, now i want to how to validate those text boxes? i done server side vaditation but i want to client side validation. so please help me.....

Thanks advance

praveen kumar....................

Praveen Kumar.R

I think you need to post this in the ASP.NET forum. Anyway, why don't you create validation controls dynamically too. On the server side you can access the dynamic textboxes client IDs and set up your validation controls accordingly to your needs.

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

Hi guys
Can anyone tell me where I could obtain a copy of XMLClassGenerator.exe?
I have tried the net but no luck.

Regards
Carmelo

Try searching with "XML Code Generator".

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

Thank you for that George I have already tried but it does not come up with the one I want.
I am hoping someone might have it amongst there collection of utilities.

Regards
Carmelo

say i have a node pointer
::IXMLDOMNodePtr node;

this node shd be like:
<nodename visible="true">datahere

how do i set the string datahere, what do you call this one? thanks!

nathan

Hi I am displaying using XSL in table,

where some of column values i will be it in xml dynamically. I have given
the border size as 1 and color as black. some times i am getting the values as empty or null the the same will be updated in XML, but during display those nulled or emptied values are not displaying with borders. web borwser control completing eleminating the cell border. Is ther anyway to do it?

Thanks
srini

Try to replace null with  

Regards,
Arun Kumar.A