Presentation using XSL

Hi,
I have developed the data capture template and presentation templates successfully. Now I want to use XSL for the presentaion. I have used the following cfg (datacapture.doc) file for datacapture template and xsl file (xsltest) for presentation part. When I try to generate the page it shows the XML file that I have written in xsltest file. If any body have any pointer to study material or sample code to generate output using XSL then please direct me.
Thanks !

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Sailesh

Hi,
I have developed the data capture template and presentation templates successfully. Now I want to use XSL for the presentaion. I have used the following cfg (datacapture.doc) file for datacapture template and xsl file (xsltest) for presentation part. When I try to generate the page it shows the XML file that I have written in xsltest file. If any body have any pointer to study material or sample code to generate output using XSL then please direct me.
Thanks !

I see no mention in your xml file to the xsl you, you need to refer the xsl file into your xml file to do the transformation.

Jangra

Thanks Sailesh,
But I have no sample files to refer. I need some documents or any sample code can you help me in this regard.
I wud be thankful for help.

Sailesh

Thanks Sailesh,
But I have no sample files to refer. I need some documents or any sample code can you help me in this regard.
I wud be thankful for help.

Whole lot of examples are there on net for using xsl with xml, you can go to w3schools to start of with. Hope this will give will give you start point.

Johnny

Hi,
I have developed the data capture template and presentation templates successfully. Now I want to use XSL for the presentaion. I have used the following cfg (datacapture.doc) file for datacapture template and xsl file (xsltest) for presentation part. When I try to generate the page it shows the XML file that I have written in xsltest file. If any body have any pointer to study material or sample code to generate output using XSL then please direct me.
Thanks !

Are you saying that your xslt is generating the correct output but that your browser is not rendering the output (instead it's just showing you the raw xml)?

Jangra

Hi All,
Thanks for your suggestions.
After doing some changes, the presentation through html is working. It is showing all the labels but the xsl file is not able to retrieve the attribute value from the dcr. I have not made any .tpl file. I have used xsl file which is placed in the presentation folder. here i am attaching both xml(dcr) and xsl(for presentation) files below -
Please look into it and guide for the solution so that the dcr values can be retrived in the html output.

Thanks!

Sailesh

Hi All,
Thanks for your suggestions.
After doing some changes, the presentation through html is working. It is showing all the labels but the xsl file is not able to retrieve the attribute value from the dcr. I have not made any .tpl file. I have used xsl file which is placed in the presentation folder. here i am attaching both xml(dcr) and xsl(for presentation) files below -
Please look into it and guide for the solution so that the dcr values can be retrived in the html output.

Thanks!

you can use something like @attribute-name

[HTML]
[/HTML]

Jangra

sailesh,
thanks for suggestion, But its not working again.
I have removed the TPL file and placed the xsl file in place of it in the presentation folder. is it ok ?

Sailesh

sailesh,
thanks for suggestion, But its not working again.
I have removed the TPL file and placed the xsl file in place of it in the presentation folder. is it ok ?

Have a look, this would give you more information..

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1690854&SiteID=1

Jangra

Thanks for quick reply,
I did all the combination given in above document but again same result its unable to retrieve the values from dcr. Does it require any change in any other file eg tamplating or any configurarion file? In templating.cfg I wrote use xsltst.xsl for presentation and dcr type is XML not iwov.
Please suggest any other idea.
Regards

yanSi

The iwpt_compiler is used to compile TPLs. If you want to use XSLs you need an XSL compiler, ex: SAXON 4.2 and then run it from an external task in a workflow against your DCRs to generate the output pages.

Aslo check here httpd/iw/help/tst/pt/index.html to see examples of using interwoven xslt tags inside tpls.

Why would you want to use XSLs in the first place. Why not TPLs?

Adam Stoller

The iwpt_compiler is used to compile TPLs. If you want to use XSLs you need an XSL compiler, ex: SAXON 4.2 and then run it from an external task in a workflow against your DCRs to generate the output pages.

Aslo check here httpd/iw/help/tst/pt/index.html to see examples of using interwoven xslt tags inside tpls.

Why would you want to use XSLs in the first place. Why not TPLs?

(interesting - your signature line suggests you're running TS6.7.1SP3 when TS6.7.1SP1 is what's currently in beta...)

FWIW: Starting with 6.7.1SP1 I believe there will be an option to use the PT compiler or an XSLT compiler for generating pages from DCRs - the latter is required if you intend to utilize the "non-OS user" option that is also supposed to be making its debut in 6.7.1SP1 (where users are identified in LDAP or AD or something - but do not have actual local disk login accounts - or something like that?)

Those of us who "grew up" with PTs in Perl tend to be comfortable with it ("an arbitrary program used to process arbitrary data to generate arbitrary output") - but XSL/XSLT is more of a an actual standard and thus, in the long run, is probably what more people will be comfortable with on average.

Jangra

yanSi,
Thanks for reply,
But still the same problem.
will you please writr the url again i think its misspelled somewhere thats why its not opening. i again reminding that if i use only xml and xsl file in a particular directory on OS then its runing and retrieving the data from dcr but if i try it through teamSite by placing xml file in data folder and xsl file in presenttion folder; Then it shows the html part successfully but the it is not retrieving the attributes values from the dcr.
the files i have used are attached above.
Waiting for solution....
Thanks!

yanSi

hummm. We just installed patch #3 for 6.7.1 which was listed as a critical patch on support. I guess it's not called sp3.

I thought there were many difficulties with using xslt. ex: no way to do string manipulation. There were a few others that I don't recall but I guess if XSLT is a standard... long live standards.

Jangra, that pt documentation is under your iw-home. The path is correct.

Jangra

Sorry yanSi,
I thought it was an URL.
Let me go through the doc then i'll consult you again if any prb..
Thanks

TommyWillB

You can access that same page from:

http://(your_TS_Hostname)/iw/help/tst/pt/

siddin

Hi Jangra,
I am attaching a working code sample, i tried a couple of months ago. I guess this will hep to you achieve your task and dont forget to make an entry in templating.cfg to use XSLT based compiler instead of perl based compiler for the specific data type

regards

rodigz

is there primary advance using xslt instead of the perl we grew up??
Can you still use iw_perl tag in xslt? Having that makes thing easy.

Adam Stoller

is there primary advance using xslt instead of the perl we grew up??
Can you still use iw_perl tag in xslt? Having that makes thing easy.

XSLT is largely a standard means of transforming XML into some other format (often HTML) - the Perl based PT compiler system is a non-standard means of transforming XML into some other format (often HTML).

If you are using "non-OS Users" - you pretty much have to use XSLT - because the PT compiler won't work correctly for individual users who don't exist at the OS level.

No - there is no iw_perl tag for XSLT - however there is something called BSFPerl which might allow for this kind of thing. I have not had need nor opportunity to play much with the XSLT processing [yet] - so I don't have that much more to say about it.

You might check the webcast page - the other day there was a webcast regarding XSLT - and the slides and recording should be posted soon (if not already)