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Nested XML elements to HTML


Hi,

I'm having a problem converting xml elements that are in a nested format to
html that would be presentable.

Here is an example of what the xml looks like:

<discussion>
   <post id="33">
      <author>mike</author>
      <date>2000-06-22 15:02:12</date>
      <subject>Test Thread 1</subject>
      <data>parent test 1</data>

      <post id="36">
         <author>mike</author>
         <date>2000-06-22 15:04:00</date>
         <subject>Test Thread 1-a</subject>
         <data>nothin</data>
      </post>

      <post id="37">
         <author>john</author>
         <date>2000-06-22 15:04:30</date>
         <subject>Test Thread 1-b</subject>
         <data>nothing also</data>
      </post>
         
         <post id="45">
            <date>2000-06-22 15:05:30</date>
            <subject>Test Thread 1-b-1</subject>
            <data>I second that.</data>
         </post>

      <post id="39">
         <author>mike</author>
         <date>2000-06-22 15:05:00</date>
         <subject>Test Thread 1-c</subject>
         <data>heh.</data>
      </post>
   </post>
</discussion>

Here is what I want the html to look like:

   <blockquote>
      <b>Test Thread 1 by mike @ 2000-06-22 15:02:12</b>
      <br />parent test 1

      <blockquote>
         <b>Test Thread 1-a by mike @ 2000-06-22 15:04:00</b>
         <br>nothin
      </blockquote>

      <blockquote>
         <b>Test Thread 1-b by john @ 2000-06-22 15:04:30</b>
         <br>nothing also
      
         
         <blockquote>
            <b>Test Thread 1-b-1 by mike @ 2000-06-22 15:05:30</b>
            <br>I second that.
         </blockquote>  

      </blockquote>

      <blockquote>
         <b>Test Thread 1-c by mike @ 2000-06-22 15:05:00</b>
         <br>heh.
      </blockquote>
   </blockquote>

Here is the stylesheet I'm using, of course, it doesn't work.  The problem
is that it parses right through the node structure logically instead of
straight up text-replacement (well, thats not really a problem, but it makes
this difficult for me to get it to work):

<?xml version="1.0" ?> 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/> 
   <xsl:template match="discussion">
      <xsl:for-each select="/descendant::post">
         <blockquote>
            <b>
               <xsl:value-of select="subject" /> by 
               <xsl:value-of select="author" />
               @ <xsl:value-of select="date" />
            </b>
            <br />
            <xsl:value-of select="data" />
	</blockquote>
      </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated, thanks.




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