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XSLT Exercise 4 #721

Closed ajw120 closed 4 years ago

ajw120 commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I am here looking for help, although I'm not entirely sure what to ask. I have the beginning starter layout, but I am lost on what I am exactly looking for or what I need to be inserting. This is such a broad question I know, but I am genuinely just stuck. I have 

<xsl:template match="'/"
<html>
<head>Skyrim</head>
<body>
<h2>Cast</h2>

I just don't know exactly what I need to be adding I suppose is my question.

ajw120 commented 4 years ago

Update!

I have this now and I'm lost where to go now. 

   <xsl:template match="/">
        <html>
            <head>Skyrim</head>
            <body>
                <h2>Cast</h2>
                    <tr>
                        <th>Character</th>
                        <th>Loyalty</th>
                        <th>ALignment</th>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="cast/character/@id"/></td>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="cast/character/@loyalty"/></td>
                        <td><xsl:value-of select="cast/character/@alignment"/></td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
ebeshero commented 4 years ago

@ajw120 A couple of issues here: 1) You're missing a start tag for <table> You'd want that between <h2> and your first table row <tr>. So that's probably making a problem for the output.

2) You're right to use <xsl:apply-templates/> after you set up the table and its header row, but you want an @select attribute to choose the part of the source document you want to reach into to retrieve each table row.

3) And you want a new <xsl:template> with an @match="something" to match on the element that holds the cast information for each character. Inside that new template rule you want to set up a table row (<tr>) with the table data (<td>) elements inside. You're setting those up too soon in the template that matches on your root document node--so you're probably getting a sort of data dump of ALL the @id, @loyalty, and @alignment attributes in each <td> right now. You need a separate template rule to process each cast member one by one--it won't work in the big template that matches on the document node!

ebeshero commented 4 years ago

@ajw120 Once you set up your new template rule, be careful to adjust your XPath. Remember, the XPath is a literal path down from the context of your @match value.