Question

I am trying to parse an xml file with xslt.

I need to have the values grouped in a div tag.
First row the div tag should have a special class <div class="firstrow">
All other rows should have <div class="tabpanel">.

How can I assign the class=”firstrow” for first row and all other rows with class=”tabpanel”?

source xml

<row>
   <column1>ABC</<column1>
   <column2>ABC</<column2>
</row>
<row>
   <column1>123</<column1>
   <column2>123</<column2>
</row>
<row>
   <column1>234</<column1>
   <column2>234</<column2>
</row>

Output I want

<div class="firstrow">
   ABC
   ABC
</div>
<div class="tabpanel">
   123
   123
</div>
<div class="tabpanel">
   234
   234
</div>

Thanks

Answer 1

As simple as this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

 <xsl:template match="row[1]">
     <div class="firstrow"><xsl:value-of select="."/></div>
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="row">
     <div class="tabpanel"><xsl:value-of select="."/></div>
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When this transformation is applied on this XML document (the provided one, made well-formed!):

<t>
    <row>
        <column1>ABC</column1>
        <column2>ABC</column2>
    </row>
    <row>
        <column1>123</column1>
        <column2>123</column2>
    </row>
    <row>
        <column1>234</column1>
        <column2>234</column2>
    </row>
</t>

the wanted, correct result is produced:

<div class="firstrow">
        ABC
        ABC
    </div>

<div class="tabpanel">
        123
        123
    </div>

<div class="tabpanel">
        234
        234
    </div>