XML and XSLT nesting elements

blakekl · #1 09-Oct-2009, 01:39

I was wondering if it's possible to have an xml document that nests tags, it nests the same tags within itself, actually.
so for instance, it has a <feature> tag that is allowed to hold other <feature> tags inside of it. I tried writing an XSLT for this, but I'm having trouble getting it to parse properly. Here is the code for it.

HTML Code:


<xsl:template match="section">
  <div class="section">
    <h2>Section Title: <xsl:value-of select="@title"/></h2>
    <xsl:for-each select="feature">
      <div class="feature">
        <h2>Feature Title: <xsl:value-of select="@title"/></h2>
        <h3>Purpose: <xsl:value-of select="./purpose"/></h3>
        <h3>Users:</h3>
        <ul>
        <xsl:for-each select="user">
          <li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
        </xsl:for-each>
        </ul>
        <xsl:for-each select="./feature">
          <xsl:apply-template select="."/>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </div>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </div>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="feature">
  <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
</xsl:template>

I get this error when I try to view the xml document in firefox:
Error loading stylesheet: Parsing an XSLT stylesheet failed. Any help?

blakekl · #2 09-Oct-2009, 15:19

Well, I figured it out on my own. You can definitely accomplish what I was trying to do. Here's the code, just so everyone else can see how it's done.

HTML Code:


<xsl:template match="section">
  <div class="section">
    <h2><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></h2>
      <xsl:for-each select="feature">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
      </xsl:for-each>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="section"/>
  </div>
</xsl:template>

As you can see, <section> is allowed to be nested under <section>. This displays properly.

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