RE: [xml-dev] formatting text...

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Michael Kay
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cintron, Jose J. [mailto:] 
> Sent: 10 January 2007 19:29
> To: 
> Subject: [xml-dev] formatting text...
> 
> I have an XML doc that in one of its fields can contain a 
> list of items...  for example
> 
> <description>
> There is some text here.  Followed by a list:
>    * item 1
>    * item n
> Now there may be some additional text here.
> </description>
> 
> The portion of the XSLT that handles this block is 
> 
> <xsl:template name="DETAILS">
>    <xsl:param name="FID"/>
>       <dd>
>          <b><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic">Discussion:</SPAN></b>
>       </dd>
>       <dd>
>          <xsl:value-of
> select="document('myfile.xml')//XPathStatement[ID=$FID]/DISCUSSION"/>
>       </dd>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Is there any way to make sure that each of the list items 
> displays on its own line and indented?  I've tried adding the 
> hex characters (&#xD; &#xA; &#x9;) to my XML doc, but when 
> the page is rendered in the browser it all renders as one line.
> 
> 
> +------------------------------------------
> | José J. Cintrón
> +------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cintron, Jose J. 
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:33
> To: ''; 
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSLT call-template question
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion it worked great! 
> 
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Fawcett [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 12:24
> To: 
> Cc: Cintron, Jose J.
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] XSLT call-template question
> 
> Jose
> 
> You rarely need the match on a xsl:template to start with //. 
> So you can
> change:
> <xsl:template match="//imp:FINDING[imp:FINDING_STATUS='O'"> 
> to <xsl:template match="imp:FINDING[imp:FINDING_STATUS='O'">
> (Not sure you need the predicate either but I don't know the whole
> code) An
> obsession with using //in XPath expressions seems all too 
> common, not sure why, perhaps there are a lot of poor 
> examples online :) If you want the <FINDING_ID> element in 
> the <xsl:template name="FINDING_DETAILS"> then you could pass it in:
>    <xsl:call-template name="FINDING_DETAILS">
>     <xsl:with-param name="FID" select="imp:FINDING_ID"/>
> 
> then:
>   <xsl:template name="FINDING_DETAILS">
>     <xsl:param name="FID"/>
> 
> >From: "Cintron, Jose J." <>
> >To: <>
> >Subject: [xml-dev] XSLT call-template question
> >Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:56:50 -0500
> >
> >I have an XML doc and XSLT that look that looks like the following 
> >samples.  What I want to do is to pull the description of the 
> >vulnerability from a separate document.  The problem is that when I 
> >call the FINDING_DETAILS template for some reason I cannot 
> access the 
> >FINDING_ID of the FINDING that I'm currently processing.  I tried,
> just 
> >to see what I got <xsl:variable name="FID"><xsl:value-of 
> >select="self::*"/><xsl:value-of select="$FID"/> and what I 
> got was the
> 
> >whole finding that I'm processing.  That said.  How the heck do I 
> >select the FINDING_ID item so that I can assign that value to the 
> >variable and then I use this to pull the correct description 
> from the 
> >external document.
> >
> >--- BEGIN XML ---
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> ><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='DCID_Open.xslt'?> 
> <IMPORT_FILE 
> >xmlns="urn:FindingImport"
> >xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude/">
> >    <FINDING>
> >       <FINDING_ID>V0006670</FINDING_ID>
> >       <FINDING_STATUS>NR</FINDING_STATUS>
> >       <VUL_NAME>Mechanism in place for key recovery</VUL_NAME>
> >       <SEVERITY>3</SEVERITY>
> >    </FINDING>
> >    .
> >    Repate this many, many times
> >    .
> ></IMPORT_FILE>
> >--- END XML ---
> >
> >--- BEGIN XSLT ---
> ><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> >xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> >xmlns:imp="urn:FindingImport">
> ><xsl:template match="/">
> >    <HTML>
> >    <HEAD>
> >          <TITLE>Findings Report</TITLE>
> >    </HEAD>
> >    <BODY style="font-family: sans-serif">
> >    <h3Findings:</h3>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates
> >select="//imp:FINDING[imp:FINDING_STATUS='O'">
> >          <xsl:sort select="imp:SEVERITY" order="ascending"
> >data-type="number" />
> >          <xsl:sort select="imp:FINDING_ID" order="ascending"
> >data-type="text" />
> >       </xsl:apply-templates>
> >    </BODY>
> >    </HTML>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> ><xsl:template match="//imp:FINDING[imp:FINDING_STATUS='O'">
> >    <dl>
> >       <table>
> >          <tr>
> >             <td>
> >                <table>
> >                   <tr>
> >                      <td><xsl:apply-templates select="imp:SEVERITY"
> /> 
> ></td>
> >                      <td><xsl:apply-templates 
> select="imp:FINDING_ID"
> >/> </td>
> >                   </tr>
> >                   <tr>
> >                      <td colspan="2"><xsl:apply-templates 
> >select="imp:VUL_NAME" /></td>
> >                   </tr>
> >                </table>
> >             </td>
> >          </tr>
> >          <tr><td><xsl:call-template name="FINDING_DETAILS"
> /></td></tr>
> >          <tr><td><xsl:apply-templates select="imp:SCRIPT_RESULTS"
> >/></td></tr>
> >          <tr><td><xsl:call-template name="TEST" /></td></tr>
> >       </table>
> >    </dl>
> ></xsl:template>
> ><xsl:template name="FINDING_DETAILS">
> >    <dd><b><SPAN STYLE="font-style:italic">Details:</SPAN></b></dd>
> >    <dd>
> >       <xsl:variable name="FID"><xsl:value-of 
> >select="..//imp:FINDING_ID/text()"/>
> >       <xsl:value-of
> >select="document('BaseVulns.xml')//VULNERABILITIES/VULNERABIL
> ITY[V_6X=
> $
> >FID]/DESCRIPTION" />
> >    </dd>
> ></xsl:template>
> >.
> >Just ignore the rest of the templates they work just fine...
> >.
> ></xsl:stylesheet>
> >--- END XSLT ---
> >
> >
> >+------------------------------------------
> >| José J. Cintrón - <>
> >|
> >| MITRE Corporation
> >| 7515 Colshire Drive
> >| Mail Stop T330
> >| McLean, VA  22102-7508
> >|
> >| Phone: 703.983.3040
> >| Fax: 703.983.1397
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