xml catalogue help

Question

need help on an xml task, im new to xml. the task is to build a xml catalogue which has 4 genres of music with two examples know i have manged to make that but im having difficulty write the code for the xsl stylesheet

Answer 1

W3Schools has some good resources as well. http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/default.asp

Here is a spec on XML Catalogs: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/spec-2001-08-06.html

One thing to keep in mind while writing XSL is that you are dealing with sets. Anytime you use a select attribute it returns a set of nodes, even if it is a set of 1.

Look into xsl:element and xsl:attribute for creating new elements and attributes.

Answer 2

I'm not going to do your homework but I can recommend a very good tutorial resource: http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html which gives many examples of simple XSLT in action.

You could iterate (xsl:for-each) over all the rock children and then select each child in sequence and create whatever output XML you want (you will need to design this anyway)