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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
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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.
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: Here is my question:
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: I want to use a tag (like ) which will contain a link to a file.
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: 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.
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: There is any way to write a link into XML?
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: Thank you in advance
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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
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...
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
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..
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: As a matter of fact your code works fine. But still I have some problems.
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: link.xml
: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link.xsl"?>
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: Suzie
: 30sec
: Quality level 3
: 130kbps
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: Link 1
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[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
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: And now the XSL:
[code]
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
My collection
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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.
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Lillu
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: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="link1.xsl"?>
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: 30 sec
: Quality level 3
: 130 kbps
: Link 3
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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:
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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...
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
: 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
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
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: I have tried it without encouraging results.
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: Thanks again...
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: Hi,
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: I corrected link1.xsl as you could not add more than one tags in your xml.
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: 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.
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: videos.xsl
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: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO8859-1"?>
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My collection
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: : Now if I want to filter the data that this xsl depicts, can I use the
: : statement?
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: 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.
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: videos_filter.xsl
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: 2 tiny lines changed between the for-each tag.
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My collection
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: Well, I'm very new to xml/xsl as well, but I help myself to these easy tutorials here: http://www.w3schools.com/
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: Good luck,
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: Lillu
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