xsltApplyStylesheetFromFile
Type
function
Summary
Returns the data set resulting from applying the xslt document in the specified file against the specified xml document.
Syntax
xsltApplyStylesheetFromFile (<xmlDocID>,<pathToXSLTFile>)
Description
The xsltApplyStylesheetFromFile function returns the data set resulting from applying the xslt document in the specified file against the specified xml document. For instance, given xml data of
<sales>
<division id="North">
<revenue>10</revenue>
<growth>9</growth>
<bonus>7</bonus>
</division>
<division id=\"South\">
<revenue>4</revenue>
<growth>3</growth>
<bonus>4</bonus>
</division>
<division id=\"West\">
<revenue>6</revenue>
<growth>-1.5</growth>
<bonus>2</bonus>
</division>
</sales>
and a file containing xslt data of
<html xsl:version=\"1.0\" xmlns:xsl=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform\" lang=\"en\">
<head>
<title>Sales Results By Division</title>
</head>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Division</th>
<th>Revenue</th>
<th>Growth</th>
<th>Bonus</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select=\"sales/division\">
<!-- order the result by revenue -->
<xsl:sort select=\"revenue\"
data-type=\"number\"
order=\"descending\"/>
<tr>
<td>
<em><xsl:value-of select="@id"/></em>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="revenue"/>
</td>
<td>
<!-- highlight negative growth in red -->
<xsl:if test=\"growth < 0\">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:text>color:red</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select=\"growth\"/>
</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="bonus"/>
</td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
You would end up with
<html lang=\"en\">
<head>
<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;
charset=UTF-8\"> <title>Sales Results By Division</title>
</head>
<body><table border=\"1\">
<tr>
<th>Division</th>
<th>Revenue</th>
<th>Growth</th>
<th>Bonus</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>North</em></td>
<td>10</td>
<td>9</td>
<td>7</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>West</em></td>
<td>6</td>
<td style=\"color:red\">-1.5</td>
<td>2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><em>South</em></td>
<td>4</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
</table></body>
</html>
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
xmlDocID | string | The ID of the xml document to use. |
pathToXSLTFile | string | The file path to the xslt document that will be applied to the xml document. |
Examples
put xsltApplyStylesheetFromFile(tDocID, "getData.xml" ) into tProcessedData
put xsltApplyStylesheetFromFile(tDocID, tFilePath) into tProcessedData
Related
function: revXMLEvaluateXpath, xsltLoadStylesheet, xsltLoadStylesheetFromFile, revXMLCreateTreeFromFile, revXMLCreateTree, xsltApplyStylesheetFromFile
Compatibility and Support
Introduced
LiveCode 6.5
OS
mac
windows
linux
ios
android
Platforms
desktop
server
mobile