XSL Conditional Logic | Fundamentals of SVG Programming: Concepts to Source Code (Graphics Series)

Generating HTML Documents

Listing A.6 displays the contents of the file bookHTML1.xsl, which demonstrates how to apply an XSL stylesheet to the XML data in book.xml in order to generate an HTML table.

Listing A.6 bookHTML1.xsl

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"      version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/">   <html><body>   <table border="1">     <tr>       <th>Number</th>       <th>Length</th>       <th>Description</th>     </tr>     <xsl:apply-templates/>   </table>   </body></html> </xsl:template> <!-- IMPORTANT: don't include a leading "/" --> <xsl:template match="chapters/chapter">   <xsl:for-each select=".">     <tr>       <td><xsl:value-of select="./number"/></td>       <td><xsl:value-of select="./length"/></td>       <td><xsl:value-of select="./desc"/></td>     </tr>   </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="author|title|desc|appendices"> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>