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How to write a link into XML?

_NeMo__NeMo_
in XML Development
[b][red]This message was edited by Moderator at 2004-4-12 4:17:36[/red][/b][hr]
Hello, I am a newcomer to XML.

Here is my question:

I want to use a tag (like ) which will contain a link to a file.

The problem is when I write a statement, and I connect the xml file with an html table, this link doesn't appear.
All the other fields appear OK.

There is any way to write a link into XML?

Thank you in advance


Comments

  • lillulillu
    Hi,

    I am also a newcomer but I can give you a simple solution which I've been using for my purposes:

    link.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link.xsl"?>

    Link 1
    Link 2
    Link 3


    link.xsl

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>



















    As you can see, for simplicity, the xml tag definitions mimic the way of HTML, using for value="" for href="" and the text between Link 1 Link 1

    Three things going in the LINK iteration of the xsl file:

    1. at href="" place the value of VALUE from xml there
    3. go find the text nodes (anything written inside

    Hope this helped,

    Lillu


    : Hello, I am a newcomer to XML.
    :
    : Here is my question:
    :
    : I want to use a tag (like ) which will contain a link to a file.
    :
    : The problem is when I write a statement, and I connect the xml file with an html table, this link doesn't appear.
    : All the other fields appear OK.
    :
    : There is any way to write a link into XML?
    :
    : Thank you in advance
    :

  • _NeMo__NeMo_
    Thank you for your quick reply..

    As a matter of fact your code works fine. But still I have some problems.

    My xml file is

    link.xml
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link.xsl"?>

    Suzie
    30sec
    Quality level 3
    130kbps

    Link 1



    and the xsl file is

    link.xsl
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>



















    My collection

    Title Duration Quality Bitrate Link




    With this file I input the data into a table.

    The problem is how I can combine this xsl with yours?
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>




















    I have tried some combinations, but it seems that 2 xsls can;t work together...

    My scope is to have a table with the metadata of my videoclips and a link to each of them...

    Thank you SO MUCH for your help till now...


  • lillulillu
    Hi,

    Of course it doesn't work. You must tailor my snippet into yours taking carefully the node structure into consideration. My example was just to show how a link can work but when you embed it in yours, you have to adjust it to your elements.

    So, I changed your xml a bit as I didn't find a root node. I assume you want to list more than one video otherwise what's the point? So will hold all children.

    Another thing: It's not necessary to have when you only want to associate one link only with . If you had more than one link to the same video, that would be fine.

    link1.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link1.xsl"?>


    Suzie
    30 sec
    Quality level 3
    130 kbps
    Link 3



    And now the XSL:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>


    My collection

    Title Duration Quality Bitrate Link









    I explain now how the gets inserted as you are OK with the rest.

    So, when you finished with formatting you say, I want a hyperlink here.

    1. You create the html tag.
    2. You define an attribute to the     tag by saying attribute name="href". So far you have this:
    4. Then you get the text from and put it after
    5. You close the     tag.


    Hope this helped.

    Lillu






    : Thank you for your quick reply..
    :
    : As a matter of fact your code works fine. But still I have some problems.
    :
    : My xml file is
    :
    : link.xml
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    : <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link.xsl"?>
    :
    : Suzie
    : 30sec
    : Quality level 3
    : 130kbps
    :
    : Link 1
    :
    :
    :
    : and the xsl file is
    :
    : link.xsl
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :

    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :

    My collection

    :
    :
    : : : : : : :
    : : : : : : :
    TitleDurationQualityBitrateLink
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    : With this file I input the data into a table.
    :
    : The problem is how I can combine this xsl with yours?
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :

    :
    :
    :
    :
    : I have tried some combinations, but it seems that 2 xsls can;t work together...
    :
    : My scope is to have a table with the metadata of my videoclips and a link to each of them...
    :
    : Thank you SO MUCH for your help till now...
    :
    :
    :

  • infidelinfidel
    : link1.xml
    [code]
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link1.xsl"?>


    Suzie
    30 sec
    Quality level 3
    130 kbps
    Link 3


    [/code]

    : And now the XSL:
    [code]
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>




    My collection


    Title Duration Quality Bitrate Link






















    [/code]

    No sense in having the VIDEOS/VIDEO collection if you're not going to make templates to take advantage of it. I'm sure it was just an oversight in this trivial example.


    [size=5][italic][blue][RED]i[/RED]nfidel[/blue][/italic][/size]

  • lillulillu
    Thanks infidel, just realized...

    Lillu

    : : link1.xml
    : [code]
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    : <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link1.xsl"?>
    :
    :
    : Suzie
    : 30 sec
    : Quality level 3
    : 130 kbps
    : Link 3
    :
    :
    : [/code]
    :
    : : And now the XSL:
    : [code]
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :

    My collection

    :
    :
    : : : : : : :
    :
    TitleDurationQualityBitrateLink
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    : [/code]
    :
    : No sense in having the VIDEOS/VIDEO collection if you're not going to make templates to take advantage of it. I'm sure it was just an oversight in this trivial example.
    :
    :
    : [size=5][italic][blue][RED]i[/RED]nfidel[/blue][/italic][/size]
    :
    :

  • _NeMo__NeMo_
    [b][red]This message was edited by Moderator at 2004-4-12 4:29:27[/red][/b][hr]
    Thank you very much for your replies!!

    I also come out with some xsl code:

    link1.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link1.xsl"?>


    Suzie
    30 sec
    Quality level 3
    130 kbps
    Link 3


    REX
    130 sec
    Quality level 5
    500 kbps
    Link 3




    And now the XSL:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
















    TITLE:



    DURATION:



    QUALITY:



    BITRATE:


    =======================================================>





    Now if I want to filter the data that this xsl depicts, can I use the
    statement?

    I have tried it without encouraging results.

    Thanks again...



  • lillulillu
    Hi,

    I corrected link1.xsl as you could not add more than one tags in your xml.

    Here's videos.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="videos.xsl"?>


    Suzie
    30 sec
    Quality level 3
    130 kbps
    Link 1


    REX
    130 sec
    Quality level 5
    500 kbps
    Link 2


    Another Day in Paradise
    280 sec
    Quality level 5
    1029 kbps
    Link 3



    I changed the text inside DURATION and BITRATE. It's good practice not to use mixed data type within one tag. It makes sorting/filtering a lot easier.

    videos.xsl

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>



    My collection


    Title Duration Quality Bitrate Link










    : Now if I want to filter the data that this xsl depicts, can I use the
    : statement?

    Well, if you want to filter certain elements that match some criteria, you use
    For-each is for looping through all the elements.

    I actually made a filter to your videos.xml and xsl.

    The xml file remains the same, you just change the second line to this:

    <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="videos_filter.xsl"?> (where you call xsl stylesheet to be applied to your xml.

    videos_filter.xsl

    2 tiny lines changed between the for-each tag.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>



    My collection




    Title Duration (sec) Quality Bitrate (kbps) Link










    Well, I'm very new to xml/xsl as well, but I help myself to these easy tutorials here: http://www.w3schools.com/

    Good luck,

    Lillu

    :
    : I have tried it without encouraging results.
    :
    : Thanks again...
    :
    :

  • _NeMo__NeMo_
    Thank you.... you are a lifesaver...


    : Hi,
    :
    : I corrected link1.xsl as you could not add more than one tags in your xml.
    :
    : Here's videos.xml
    :
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    : <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="videos.xsl"?>
    :
    :
    : Suzie
    : 30 sec
    : Quality level 3
    : 130 kbps
    : Link 1
    :
    :
    : REX
    : 130 sec
    : Quality level 5
    : 500 kbps
    : Link 2
    :
    :
    : Another Day in Paradise
    : 280 sec
    : Quality level 5
    : 1029 kbps
    : Link 3
    :
    :
    :
    : I changed the text inside DURATION and BITRATE. It's good practice not to use mixed data type within one tag. It makes sorting/filtering a lot easier.
    :
    : videos.xsl
    :
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :

    My collection

    :
    :
    : : : : : : :
    :
    : : : : : : :
    :
    TitleDurationQualityBitrateLink

    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    : : Now if I want to filter the data that this xsl depicts, can I use the
    : : statement?
    :
    : Well, if you want to filter certain elements that match some criteria, you use
    : For-each is for looping through all the elements.
    :
    : I actually made a filter to your videos.xml and xsl.
    :
    : The xml file remains the same, you just change the second line to this:
    :
    : <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="videos_filter.xsl"?> (where you call xsl stylesheet to be applied to your xml.
    :
    : videos_filter.xsl
    :
    : 2 tiny lines changed between the for-each tag.
    :
    : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :

    My collection

    :
    :
    : : : : : : :
    :
    :
    : : : : : : :
    :
    :
    TitleDuration (sec)QualityBitrate (kbps)Link

    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    :
    : Well, I'm very new to xml/xsl as well, but I help myself to these easy tutorials here: http://www.w3schools.com/
    :
    : Good luck,
    :
    : Lillu
    :
    : :
    : : I have tried it without encouraging results.
    : :
    : : Thanks again...
    : :
    : :
    :
    :

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