Question

I have an XML file that I am using XSL to convert into an html page. I would like to loop through the XML file which contains many parent nodes, and then loop through the child nodes and display the result in an HTML table.

So far I am able to loop through the Parent node and sucessful return them, but when I nest a for-each loop inside there to return the attibutes of the child node, I end up returning the attributes of all child nodes in the document and not the ones specific to the parent node.

Can anyone shed a little light on this.

XML:

<AdminReports xmlns="30/11/2011 09:25:58">
    <AdminReport ID="1">
        <DataSourceInformation DataSourceID="12" Value="DSI_50"/>
    </AdminReport>
    <AdminReport ID="2">
        <DataSourceInformation DataSourceID="23" Value="DSI_30"/>
    </AdminReport>
    <AdminReport ID="3">
        <DataSourceInformation DataSourceID="34" Value="DSI_20"/>
    </AdminReport>
</AdminReports>

XSL:

  <table border="1" cellspacing="2" width="800" bgcolor="white">
 <xsl:for-each select="/*/*[name()='AdminReport']">
       <tr bgcolor="9acd32">
       <table><th>Admin Report Num:</th></table>
       <table><th><xsl:value-ofselect="@ID"/>   </th></table>
    </tr>
    <tr>    
     <xsl:for-each select="/*/*/*[name()='DataSourceInformation']"> 
      <table><th>Data Report ID:</th></table>
              <table><th><xsl:value-of select="@DataSourceID"/></th></table>
     </xsl:for-each>
     </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
</table>

Answer 1

You’re over-compicating this.

select is relative to the current context node:

<table border="1" cellspacing="2" width="800" bgcolor="white">
    <xsl:for-each select="/*/*[name()='AdminReport']">
       <tr bgcolor="9acd32">
       <table><th>Admin Report Num:</th></table>
       <table><th><xsl:value-of select="@ID"/>   </th></table>
       </tr>
       <tr> 
       <xsl:for-each select="*[name()='DataSourceInformation']">    
           <table><th>Data Report ID:</th></table>
           <table><th><xsl:value-of select="@DataSourceID"/></th></table>
       </xsl:for-each>
       </tr>
     </xsl:for-each>
</table>