Sintaxe XSLT
Vamos supor que temos o seguinte arquivo XML de amostra, students.xml, que deve ser transformado em um documento HTML bem formatado.
students.xml
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<class>
<student rollno = "393">
<firstname>Dinkar</firstname>
<lastname>Kad</lastname>
<nickname>Dinkar</nickname>
<marks>85</marks>
</student>
<student rollno = "493">
<firstname>Vaneet</firstname>
<lastname>Gupta</lastname>
<nickname>Vinni</nickname>
<marks>95</marks>
</student>
<student rollno = "593">
<firstname>Jasvir</firstname>
<lastname>Singh</lastname>
<nickname>Jazz</nickname>
<marks>90</marks>
</student>
</class>
Precisamos definir um documento de folha de estilo XSLT para o documento XML acima para atender aos seguintes critérios -
A página deve ter um título Students.
A página deve ter uma tabela de detalhes do aluno.
As colunas devem ter os seguintes cabeçalhos: Roll No, First Name, Last Name, Nick Name, Marks
A tabela deve conter detalhes dos alunos em conformidade.
Etapa 1: Criar documento XSLT
Crie um documento XSLT para atender aos requisitos acima, nomeie-o como students.xsl e salve-o no mesmo local onde se encontra o students.xml.
students.xsl
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<!-- xsl stylesheet declaration with xsl namespace:
Namespace tells the xlst processor about which
element is to be processed and which is used for output purpose only
-->
<xsl:stylesheet version = "1.0"
xmlns:xsl = "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<!-- xsl template declaration:
template tells the xlst processor about the section of xml
document which is to be formatted. It takes an XPath expression.
In our case, it is matching document root element and will
tell processor to process the entire document with this template.
-->
<xsl:template match = "/">
<!-- HTML tags
Used for formatting purpose. Processor will skip them and browser
will simply render them.
-->
<html>
<body>
<h2>Students</h2>
<table border = "1">
<tr bgcolor = "#9acd32">
<th>Roll No</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Nick Name</th>
<th>Marks</th>
</tr>
<!-- for-each processing instruction
Looks for each element matching the XPath expression
-->
<xsl:for-each select="class/student">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- value-of processing instruction
process the value of the element matching the XPath expression
-->
<xsl:value-of select = "@rollno"/>
</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "firstname"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "lastname"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "nickname"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "marks"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Etapa 2: vincular o documento XSLT ao documento XML
Atualize o documento student.xml com a seguinte tag xml-stylesheet. Defina o valor href para students.xsl
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/xsl" href = "students.xsl"?>
<class>
...
</class>
Etapa 3: Visualize o documento XML no Internet Explorer
students.xml
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/xsl" href = "students.xsl"?>
<class>
<student rollno = "393">
<firstname>Dinkar</firstname>
<lastname>Kad</lastname>
<nickname>Dinkar</nickname>
<marks>85</marks>
</student>
<student rollno = "493">
<firstname>Vaneet</firstname>
<lastname>Gupta</lastname>
<nickname>Vinni</nickname>
<marks>95</marks>
</student>
<student rollno = "593">
<firstname>Jasvir</firstname>
<lastname>Singh</lastname>
<nickname>Jazz</nickname>
<marks>90</marks>
</student>
</class>