XSLTTool

The XSLTTool provides a way to read from an XML source while providing XSLT transformation styling.

The following example shows how the TextTool is mapped in the toolbox.xml file:


  <tool>
    <key>xslttool</key>
    <scope>application</scope>
    <class>com.dotmarketing.viewtools.XsltTool</class>
  </tool>

Both methods in the XSLTTool take 3 parameters: URL to the XML, URL to the XSLT, and a cache ttl. The ttl is passed as the number minutes that the page will cache before refreshing the read of content from the xml source page.

Example 1 #


#set($xmlUrl = 'http://www.w3schools.com/XML/cd_catalog.xml')
#set($xsltUrl = 'https://www.w3schools.com/xml/cdcatalog.xsl')
$xslttool.transform($xmlUrl, $xsltUrl, 30)

Example 2 #


#set($xmlUrl = "http://www.w3schools.com/XML/cd_catalog.xml")
#set($xsltUrl = "https://www.w3schools.com/xml/cdcatalog.xsl")
#set($XSLTransDoc =$xslttool.XSLTTransform($xmlUrl, $xsltUrl,30))
$XSLTransDoc.getXmlTransformation()

Here is an example of the xsl stylesheet code referenced in both of the examples above:


<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
    <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>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>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Note: The "value-of select=" requires a field title that is case sensitive. Make sure the field in your stylesheet matches the case of the name of the field in your xml feed.

XSLTTool

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