Re: [xsl] for-each question

["Vasu Chakkera" <vasucv at hotmail dot com>]

The problem is your template matches each book element.
this is equivalent to a pseudo code
for each book {
The books are:
Book-Name
}
which will produce "The Books are" Thrice( in your case). You have to take 
the "The books are" out of the loop.

the following for-loop would help you
( this xsl produces a HTML result )

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="test">
The Books are:<hr/>
<xsl:for-each select="book">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This would give a result
The Books are:
______________
ABC123
ABC456
ABC789

Hope this helps
Vasu
> From: Holmberg Rick-ra0119 <Rick.Holmberg@motorola.com>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] for-each question
> Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:56:44 -0700
>
> I am new to Xsl and am trying to parse a xml document into a html doc.  I 
> would like to have a heading above several elements but don't want that 
> heading to show up above each element.  I am sure this is simple but I 
> can't seem to quite get it.  Here is what I have.
>
> If my xml file looks like this
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <test>
> <id>TestId</id>
> <book>ABC123</book>
> <book>ABC456</book>
> <book>ABC789</book>
> </test>
>
> I would like the html to read
> The Books are:
> ABC123
> ABC456
> ABC789
>
> My Stylesheet segment is:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> <xsl:output method="html"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="book">
> <I>
> The Books are:
> <xsl:apply-templates select="book" />
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </I>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> With this XSL file I am getting the 'The Books are:' printed 3 times.  I 
> only need it once.  I figure I have to use a for-each but I can't seem to 
> get that to work correctly.  Can anyone help here?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
>
>
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