Here is one way: what I call "Fill in the blanks" to separate content from processing and parameterize processing :
Rendering File (c: /temp/delete/nc3.xml) :
<html xmlns:gen="gen:gen"> <gen:data from="params" mode="top"/> <body > <div id="outer"> <div id="container"> <div id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://www.notepadchaos.com/"> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" class="txtField" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="btnSearch" value="Find It " /> </form> </div> <div id="title"> <h2>Tamara Wobben</h2> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div class="col01"> <div class="post"> <h3> <gen:data from="entry/title"/> </h3> <div class="post-inner"> <gen:data from="section/entry/tekst" /> </div></div></div> <div class="side-columns"> <div class="col02"> <div class="pages"> </div> <div class="pages-bottom"></div> <div class="categories-upper"></div> <div class="categories"> </div> <div class="categories-btm"></div> </div> <div class ="col03"> <div class="recent-post" > </div> <div class="postit-bottom"></div> </div> </div> <br style="clear:both" /> </div> <gen:data from="params" mode="down"/> </div> </body> </html>
Data File (c: /temp/delete/data.xml) :
<data> <params> <today>2011-12-29</today> <current-time>22:17</current-time> <this-year>2011</this-year> <this-month>12</this-month> <this-day>29</this-day> <timezone>+01:00</timezone> <website-name>Tamara Wobben</website-name> <page-title>frontpage</page-title> <root>http://test.tamarawobben.nl</root> <workspace>http://test.tamarawobben.nl/workspace</workspace> <root-page>frontpage</root-page> <current-page>frontpage</current-page> <current-page-id>6</current-page-id> <current-path>/?debug=xml</current-path> <parent-path>/</parent-path> <current-url>http://test.tamarawobben.nl/?debug=xml</current-url> <upload-limit>2097152</upload-limit> <symphony-version>2.2.5</symphony-version> <cookie-username>xxxx</cookie-username> <cookie-pass>xxxxx</cookie-pass> <site-mode>live</site-mode> </params> <events /> <image> <section id="7" handle="images">Images</section> <entry id="13"> <image size="22 KB" path="/images" type="image/jpeg"> <filename>img_5874.jpg</filename> <meta creation="2011-12-19T18:40:04+01:00" width="400" height="267" /> </image> </entry> </image> <recent-posts> <section id="9" handle="dagboek">Dagboek</section> <entry id="15"> <datum time="00:00" weekday="2">2005-02-22</datum> <titel handle="7-weken-echo">7 weken echo</titel> </entry> </recent-posts> <section> <section id="6" handle="sections">Sections</section> <entry id="12"> <title handle="even-voorstellen">Even Voorstellen</title> <tekst><p>FLOAT : img_5874.jpg</p> 55 56<p>Naam : Tamara Wobben<br /> 57Geboorte gewicht : 2000 gram<br /> 58Geboorte lengte : 44 cm.<br /> 59Geboortedatum : 1 september 2005 </p> </tekst> </entry> </section> </data>
XSLT Code:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:gen="gen:gen" exclude-result-prefixes="gen"> <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:param name="pFormPath" select= "'file:///c:/temp/delete/nc3.xml'"/> <xsl:param name="pDataPath" select= "'file:///c:/temp/delete/data.xml'"/> <xsl:variable name="vFormDoc" select="document($pFormPath)"/> <xsl:variable name="vDataDoc" select="document($pDataPath)"/> <xsl:template match="node()|@*"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:apply-templates select="$vFormDoc/*"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match= "gen:data [@from='params' and @mode='top' ]"> TOPSTUF </xsl:template> <xsl:template match= "gen:data[@from='entry/Title']"> ENTRYTITLE </xsl:template> <xsl:template match= "gen:data[@from='section/entry/tekst']"> SECTIONENTRYTEXT </xsl:template> <xsl:template match= "gen:data [@from='params' and @mode='down' ]"> DOWNSTUF </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Source XML file (not used):
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When the specified conversion is performed in any XML file (not used), the rendering file is populated with data from the data file . The templates that handle gen:data placeholder elements are fictitious, but still demonstrate how this processing works.
Processing Result :
<html xmlns:gen="gen:gen"> TOPSTUF <body> <div id="outer"> <div id="container"> <div id="search"> <form method="get" id="searchform" action="http://www.notepadchaos.com/"><input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" class="txtField"><input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="btnSearch" value="Find It "></form> </div> <div id="title"> <h2>Tamara Wobben</h2> </div> </div> <div id="content"> <div class="col01"> <div class="post"> <h3> <gen:data from="entry/title"></gen:data> </h3> <div class="post-inner"> SECTIONENTRYTEXT </div> </div> </div> <div class="side-columns"> <div class="col02"> <div class="pages"> </div> <div class="pages-bottom"></div> <div class="categories-upper"></div> <div class="categories"> </div> <div class="categories-btm"></div> </div> <div class="col03"> <div class="recent-post"> </div> <div class="postit-bottom"></div> </div> </div><br style="clear:both"></div> DOWNSTUF </div> </body> </html>
Please note :
This code can fill in any rendering document (the path is passed as an external parameter) using data from any data document (again, the path is passed as an external parameter). Thus, it becomes possible to create different outputs / formats filled with various data.
Placeholders ( gen:data elements), which should be replaced with "live content", can have different formats and semantics - no restrictions for one imagination.
Editors (non-XSLT experts) can work on one or more rendering documents independently of each other and from XSLT developers.
A higher degree of reuse, flexibility and maintainability has been achieved.