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Thank you so much! Your transform worked perfectly... the best part is that 
I actually understand it! Thanks again... 

Kevin

"N. Demos" wrote:

> Kevin wrote:
> > <<PlainText>>
> > 
> > Hello all. I am somewhat new to XSL transforms. I have an xml document that 
> > represents a sitemap (or, it will... this is just test data). I want to 
> > display the sitemap in Microsoft TreeView control as mentioned in this 
> > article (http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/051403-1.aspx).
> > 
> > The raw xml file could have any number of nestings... here is a sample...
> > 
> > <sitemap en="Home" es="Pagina Principal" url="/default.aspx">
> >  <page en="Personal Finance" es="Finanzas Personales" url="/pf/default.aspx" 
> > />
> >  <page en="Community" url="/community/default.aspx">
> >   <page en="Community Champions" url="/community/champions.aspx">
> >    <regionalization region="2" en="Community in English!" />
> >   </page>
> >  </page>
> >  <page en="About Us" url="/au/defualt.aspx" />
> >  <page en="Contact Us" url="/cu/default.aspx">
> >   <page en="Phone Directory" url="cu/PhoneDirectory.aspx">
> >    <page en="President" url="/cu/President.aspx">
> >     <page en="President's Message" url="/cu/President/message.aspx" />
> >    </page>
> >    <page en="Vice-President" url="/cu/vicepresident.aspx" />
> >    <page en="Vice-President Sales" url="/cu/vpsales.aspx" />
> >   </page>
> >  </page>
> >  <page en="Investors" url="in/default.aspx">
> >   <page en="Annual Reports" url="/in/ar.aspx" />
> >  </page>
> > </sitemap>
> > 
> > This xml file shows four levels deep. Microsoft's treeview control requires 
> > the input xml file to be in <TREENODES><treenode/></TREENODES> format... so 
> > the above file SHOULD be transformed to:
> > 
> > Please help me understand how to re-write the stylesheet so that the raw xml 
> > input file can have any number of nesting possible. Thank you in advance....
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Kevin 
> > 
> > 
> Kevin,
> Try the stylesheet below. Since you are replicating the structure of the 
> original XML, you only need two templates: one for the root <sitemap>, 
> and one for each <page> node. As you can see below, the <page> template 
> recursively applies itself, <xsl:apply-templates select="page" />. If no 
> child <page> node is found then nothing is generated.
> 
> The code to assign the value of the 'en' attribute to text attribute, 
> text="{@en}" uses the shorthand 'value-of' operator, '{}' (curly 
> brackets). The longer way to do this is
> 
> <treenode>
>    <xsl:attribute name="text" select="@en" />
>    <xsl:apply-templates select="page" />
> </treenode>
> 
> Note that when using this method (the long one) that all attribute tags 
> must occur immediatly following the opening tag of the element they are 
> being assigned to, and before the assignment of any child nodes or text.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Regards,
> N. Demos
> 
> XSL:
> -------------------
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" indent="yes"/>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/sitemap">
>    <TREENODES>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="page" />
>    </TREENODES>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="page">
>    <treenode text="{@en}">
>      <!-- Recursive Call -->
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="page" />
>    </treenode>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
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