CMT3315 – Laboratory 15 – 18 February ’11
Friday 4:30 am H104
Quick questions:
- The XSL family of languages can use a stylesheet to transform an XML document into an HTML document, which can be displayed by a web browser, with sophisticated formatting that takes account of the special features of the information in the XML document. Some web programmers, however, prefer to use a CSS stylesheet to look after the formatting of the XML document. Why?
- Sometimes, you will see an XSL stylesheet whose namespace declaration looks like this:
<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0”
xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>
And sometimes you will see an XSL stylesheet whose namespace declaration looks like this:
<xsl:transform version=”1.0”
xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>
What difference does this make to the functioning of the stylesheet?
- In XSL, what is the difference between “pull” transformations and “push” transformations?
Longer question:
Consider the following XML document, which is part of a list of staff allocations in a hospital:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="stylingXSL.xsl"?>
<staff-roll xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<post type="surgeon">
<name>Joe White</name>
<departmental-jobs>
<department dept="thoracic">
<joined>2009</joined>
<duties>heart surgery</duties>
</department>
</departmental-jobs>
</post>
<post type="theatre sister">
<name>R. Kaur</name>
</post>
<post type="nurse">
<name>A. Adeleke</name>
<departmental-jobs>
<department dept="thoracic">
<joined>2010</joined>
<duties>general ward nursing
</duties>
</department>
</departmental-jobs>
</post>
<post type="nurse">
<name>D. Borg
</name>
<departmental-jobs>
<department dept="general surgery">
<joined>2005</joined>
<duties>general ward nursing</duties>
</department>
<department dept="thoracic">
<joined>2005</joined>
<duties>general ward nursing
</duties>
</department>
</departmental-jobs>
</post>
<post type="IC specialist">
<name>E. Said
</name>
</post>
</staff-roll>
Clearly, it is intended to use an XSL stylesheet called stylingXSL.xsl. Here is a first attempt at this stylesheet:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- File: stylingXSL.xsl -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Staff deployment</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1> Staff and their departmental duties </H1>
<H2>
Name: <xsl:value-of select="staff-roll/post/name"/>
<br/>
Job title: <xsl:value-of select="staff-roll/post/@type"/>
</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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</xsl:stylesheet>
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