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Asked: 2026-05-23T16:34:59+00:00

I have an XML file like the following : <?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1 ?> <mylist

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I have an XML file like the following : 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<mylist name="test">
    <title>--$title$- not found</title>
    <table>
        <header>
            <col name="firstname"      title="--$firstname$- not found"/>
            <col name="lastname"      title="--$lastname$- not found"/>
            <col name="country"        title="--$country$- not found"/>
      </header>
            <body>
                <row>
                <col name="firstname">John</col>
                <col name="lastname">Smith</col>
                <col name="country">ENGLAND</col>
              </row>
              <row>
              <col name="firstname">Peter</col>
                <col name="lastname">Scott</col>
                <col name="country">USA</col>
              </row>
        </body>
    </table>
</mylist>

and I need to show the result as a HTML table like the following :

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Could anyone help please? I’m not into XML/XSL and I just need this once

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this:

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

  <xsl:template match="mylist">
    <html>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="title">
    <head>
      <title><xsl:value-of select="." /></title>
    </head>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="table">
    <table style="border: 1px solid black">
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </table>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="header">
    <thead>
      <tr>
        <xsl:apply-templates />
      </tr>
    </thead>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="body">
    <tbody>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </tbody>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="row">
    <tr>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </tr>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="col[parent::header]">
    <th style="border: solid black 1px;"><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></th>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="col[parent::row]">
    <td style="border: solid black 1px;"><xsl:value-of select="." /></td>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

    It will actually put a style attribute on each <td> or <th> which means the output’s a little verbose, but it keeps the XSLT nice & simple.

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