XSLT can be used to transform the document to XHTML in your browser.
Even if this works fine, it is not always desirable to include a style sheet reference in an XML file (e.g. it will not work in a non XSLT aware browser.)
A more versatile solution would be to use a JavaScript to do the transformation.
By using a JavaScript, we can:
That is the beauty of XSLT! One of the design goals for XSLT was to make it possible to transform data from one format to another, supporting different browsers and different user needs.
Look at the XML document that you have seen in the previous chapters:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<catalog>
<cd>
<title>Empire Burlesque</title>
<artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
<country>USA</country>
<company>Columbia</company>
<price>10.90</price>
<year>1985</year>
</cd>
.
.
</catalog>
And the accompanying XSL style sheet:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<h2>My CD Collection</h2>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th style="text-align:left">Title</th>
<th style="text-align:left">Artist</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select="title" /></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="artist" /></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Notice that the XML file does not have a reference to the XSL file.
IMPORTANT: The above sentence indicates that an XML file could be transformed using many different XSL style sheets.
Here is the source code needed to transform the XML file to XHTML on the client:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script>
function loadXMLDoc(filename)
{
if (window.ActiveXObject)
{
xhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
else
{
xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
xhttp.open("GET", filename, false);
try {xhttp.responseType = "msxml-document"}
catch(err) {} // Helping IE11
xhttp.send("");
return xhttp.responseXML;
}
function displayResult()
{
xml = loadXMLDoc("cdcatalog.xml");
xsl = loadXMLDoc("cdcatalog.xsl");
// code for IE
if (window.ActiveXObject
|| xhttp.responseType == "msxml-document")
{
ex =
xml.transformNode(xsl);
document.getElementById("example").innerHTML
= ex;
}
// code for Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.
else if (document.implementation
&& document.implementation.createDocument)
{
xsltProcessor = new XSLTProcessor();
xsltProcessor.importStylesheet(xsl);
resultDocument =
xsltProcessor.transformToFragment(xml, document);
document.getElementById("example").appendChild(resultDocument);
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="displayResult()">
<div
id="example" />
</body>
</html>
Try it Yourself »
チップ: If you don't know how to write JavaScript, please study our JavaScript tutorial.
The loadXMLDoc() function does the following:
The displayResult() function is used to display the XML file styled by the XSL file: