Question

i am not being able to render a bulleted list through xml/xsl transformation. I want the output to be a list with round bullet points.

here is the xml file –

<bulletList name="list">
        <item>&#8226; Item1</item>
        <item>&#8226; Item2</item>
        <item>&#8226; Item3</item>
        <item>&#8226; Item4</item>
        <item>&#8226; Item5</item>
</bulletList>

here is the corresponding XSL –

<div class="sansIcon">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="content[@name='con1']" mode="impl_expandContent"/>

            <ul>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="bulletList[@name='list']" mode="impl_expandContent">
                <xsl:for-each select="item">
                    <li><xsl:value-of /></li>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </xsl:apply-templates>  
            </ul>

       </div>

Please help! Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Here change <xsl:value-of /> to <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>

Do this way, rather than using apply-templates for bulletList

<ul>
    <xsl:for-each select="bulletList[@name='list']/item">
        <li>
            <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
        </li>
    </xsl:for-each>
</ul>

EDIT:

For this type of XML,

<item>Item1 - Description1</item>
<item>Item2 - Description2</item>

To make Item1, Item2, …. to be bold. Use substring-before() and substring-after()

<li>
    <xsl:variable name="itemText" select="substring-before(text(), '-')"/>
    <b><xsl:value-of select="$itemText"/></b><xsl:value-of select="substring-after(text(), $itemText)"/>
</li>