Hi,
I'm new to XSLT. I'm trying to change the font size of a specific text in XML file using XSLT. For eg- I have the CDCatalog.xml file with following data.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="cdcat.xsl"?>
<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist><SmallText>Bob Dylan</SmallText><LineBreak/>*</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
</catalog>
and the cdCat.XSL file is-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:include href="cdCatalog.xsl" /> <!-- I added this -->
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th align="left">Title</th>
<th align="left">Artist</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<tr>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="artist" />
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I added a new xsl file cdCatalog.XSL file with following details-
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="LineBreak">
<br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Superscript">
<sup>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</sup>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="SmallText">
<font size="1">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</font>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
and included this file in the CDCat.xsl file.and added the tags - <smallText>, <LineBreak> in the CdCatalog.xml file. now when I open the xml file i dont see the LineBreak nor the font size difference. Can anyone please suggest if I'm missing something.
Thanks in advance Sai
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XML says nothing about presentation, that's the whole point. It's a data format.
If you want your XSLT to output to something where presentation matters I suggest you transform to HTML and get let HTML/CSS handle the styling.
Having seen your actual code now (hint: use the formatting when creating questions) don't use the font tag. What you want semantically and in practice is just headers
<h1>,<h2>,<h3>etc, and I'd still suggest you add a CSS link in there. Oh and<xsl:output method="html" /> -
You need to use apply-templates to indicate where your template matches should take effect.
annakata : good point, couldn't even see that in the codeannakata : please don't use font though... -
In-between these two opening tags:
<html> <body>...I'd place a link to a style sheet that defines the font sizes. Alternatively (and useful if you want a self contained HTML file to email around) you could put a style block there instead.
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