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**pealo86** · 01:35 PM

I have a .xsl file that reads from a local .xml file and outputs some data in HTML format. But I'm not too sure how to open it properly??

The only way I can view it properly is by clicking the 'preview in browser' button on Dreamweaver, which previews it correctly in FF. The address bar also gives the impression that it is some sort of temporary file aswell.

But if I open the file from windows explorer, or try to open it directly from the browser, it just displays the document tree like so

Quote:

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

Here is the code for my documents:

stu.xml

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CLASS ID="Advanced Web Development">
<STUDENT>
<NAME>Tom</NAME>
<AGE>19</AGE>
<HEIGHT>1.3</HEIGHT>
<SEX>M</SEX>
<GRADE>B</GRADE>
</STUDENT>
<STUDENT>
<NAME>Dick</NAME>
<AGE>29</AGE>
<HEIGHT>1.1</HEIGHT>
<SEX>M</SEX>
<GRADE>A</GRADE>
</STUDENT>
<STUDENT>
<NAME>Harry</NAME>
<AGE>39</AGE>
<HEIGHT>1.5</HEIGHT>
<SEX>M</SEX>
<GRADE>C</GRADE>
</STUDENT>
<STUDENT>
<NAME>Mary</NAME>
<AGE>30</AGE>
<HEIGHT>1.1</HEIGHT>
<SEX>F</SEX>
<GRADE>A</GRADE>
</STUDENT>
<STUDENT>
<NAME>Tim</NAME>
<AGE>23</AGE>
<HEIGHT>1.5</HEIGHT>
<SEX>M</SEX>
<GRADE>A</GRADE>
</STUDENT>
</CLASS>

stu.xsl:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><!-- DWXMLSource="stu.xml" -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">

<html>
<body>

<h1>XSLT Exercise 4</h1>

<table border="1" width="500">
    <tr>
        <th>Name</th>
        <th>Age</th>
    </tr>
    <xsl:for-each select="//STUDENT">
        <tr>
        <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>
        </td>
        <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="AGE"/>
        </td>
        </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
</table>

</body>
</html>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

If anyone could help anytime soon that would be great

As this assignment is due in tomorrow lol.

**pealo86** · 02-05-2009, 01:41 PM

*Solved*

It looks as though Dreamweaver was using it's own makeshift code or something ?

**tripy** · 02-05-2009, 04:08 PM

Well, you have 2 method to view them.
The first, and probably the one you found, is to add an <xml-stylsheet> pi to the xml file, and open the xml file in your browser.

Code:

<?xml-stylesheet href="mySheet.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>

The second, is to use a xslt engine to which you specify the xml document and the xsl stylesheet.
No need to declare the xsl in the xml in that case, as you explicitely tell the program which one to use

On a linux machine, with libxslt installed, you have xsltproc for that usage.
I don't know of something similar to windows without buying a product like xmlSpy, though.