Need help with XSLT stylesheets.

[Zombie]

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need help with XSLT stylesheets.

I am transfroming an XML file to HTML file(using stylesheet). It creates a table and formats the data based on stylesheet. Now I would like to highlight certain cells in that table and I don't know how to go about it. All I can think of is add a highlight value for each field in XML file. Is this the best way to implement it?


I am using java for transformation.


thanks.

 

[yllus]

Uhh...I guess it depends. You may want to add an XML attribute like highlight="yes" to those fields you want highlighted. Then in the XSLT script do an xsl:if statement to check what the value of that highlight attribute is.

Some info on xsl:if

 

[Zombie]

but I am afraid that adding attributes like that will explode the XML filesize 🙁. I should look in to bit operations since I have an element with several subelements as members/attributes.

 

[johnjbruin]

Originally posted by: Zombie
but I am afraid that adding attributes like that will explode the XML filesize 🙁. I should look in to bit operations since I have an element with several subelements as members/attributes.

that is the only way i know of making it work.
it shouldnt be that bad adding a highlight tag.
i've done xml->html transformations on 5-10MB XML files from java and they are still pretty fast.

 

[Zombie]

You can do bitwise operations, but I think that would be little annoying to implement.