Step 2: Create an XSL Style Sheet.
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Introduction
Create an XSL Style Sheet ("cat.xsl") with a set of rules to format the xml document.
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<!- -The stylesheet is an XML document so the document begins with an xml declaration. - ->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!- - defines the start of the style sheet - -> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <!- -defines the start of a template. The match="/" attribute matches the template to the root (/) of the XML source document. - -> <xsl:template match="/"> <html> <head> <title>Biao Min Stylesheets</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> </head> <body> <!- -allows you to loop through each selected element - -> <xsl:for-each select="lexicon"> <xsl:for-each select="forms"> <p> <xsl:for-each select="form"> <xsl:for-each select="linguisticform"> <xsl:for-each select="unanalyzedform"> <span style="font-weight:bold;color:red; "> <!- -applies a template rule to the current element or to the current element's child nodes. - -> <xsl:apply-templates/> </span> ......... </xsl:for-each> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:for-each> <br/> <br/> </xsl:for-each> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> |
How It Works
XSL works by recursively applying the individual <xsl:template> tags in the stylesheet to your XML source document. In this case, we only have one explicitly specified <xsl:template> tag, which is applied to the root of the document.
Within a given template there are a number of tags that can be used to do programming operations such as looping (<xsl:for-each>), printing the value of a tag (<value-of>), or performing more complex operations on a set of nodes (<xsl:sort>).
In this case there is an 'implicit' <xsl:template> rule which is being used to copy the text of the <unanalyzedform> tags from the source document to the target document.
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