XSLT transformation and replacing placeholders
Question
I'm not very good at XSLT, so hopefully someone can help :)
I'm trying to convert an HTML template (called from C# code), replacing placeholders with data from an XML file.
The (simplified) HTML template looks like:
<html>
<body>
Dear $firstName $lastName,
</body>
</html>
The XML file looks like:
<inputXml>
<firstName>Joske</firstName>
<lastName>Vermeulen</lastName>
</inputXml>
And the XSLT I came up with so far looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
version="1.0"
xmlns:s0="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="text" version="1.0" />
<xsl:variable name="templateMessage" select="document('stream:///TemplateMessage')" />
<xsl:variable name="inputData" select="/" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$templateMessage/*/node()" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*/*">
<xsl:value-of select="$inputData//*[name()=name(current())]"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
For some reason the output of the transformation is just empty, because the last match is probably not correct. (If I omit the last match, I get the original HTML template as output).
Anyone sees what I did wrong?
2 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2015-07-31 09:31:36
Ok, found a solution.
The template has placeholders like this:
<html>
<body>
Dear <span class="placeholder">firstName</span> <span class="placeholder">lastName</span>,
</body>
</html>
And the XSLT looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
version="1.0"
xmlns:s0="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="xml" version="1.0" />
<!-- This is the XML data to use to replace the placeholders in the HTML template with -->
<xsl:variable name="inputData" select="document('stream:///InputData')" />
<xsl:variable name="placeholders">
<list>
<placeholder id="firstName" value="{$inputData/inputXml/firstName}" />
<placeholder id="lastName" value="{$inputData/inputXml/lastName}" />
</list>
</xsl:variable>
<!-- Take the HTML template -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Replace every placeholder in the HTML template with the value from the XML data defined by its XPATH -->
<xsl:template match="span[@class='placeholder']">
<xsl:variable name="this" select="node()"/>
<xsl:value-of select="msxsl:node-set($placeholders)/list/placeholder[@id = $this]/@value" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
solution2
-2 2015-07-31 08:39:31
For just simple replacing the $firtstname and $lastname from the xml file I tried something like this and it works. Let me know if something is not clear. Just sharing with you in case it helps.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
exclude-result-prefixes="msxsl"
version="2.0">
<xsl:variable name="templateMessage" select="document('MyXmldata.xml')" />
<xsl:variable name="inputData" select="/" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:variable name="firstName" select="$templateMessage/inputXml/firstName" />
<xsl:variable name="lastName" select="$templateMessage/inputXml/lastName" />
<xsl:variable name="StringValue" select="node()" />
<xsl:variable name="StringValue1" select="replace($StringValue,'\$firstName',$firstName)" />
<xsl:variable name="StringValue2" select="replace($StringValue1,'\$lastName',$lastName)" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
May be this code can help you .
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