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[url=http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_for-each.asp]<xsl:for-each>[/url]To wit:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:wt="http://www.example.com" exclude-result-prefixes="wt">
<xsl:output method="html" version="4.01"/>
<xsl:output doctype-system="http://www.w3c.org/tr/html4/strict.dtd"/>
<xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3c//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>XML Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="wt:weetest/wt:elementwrapper">
<div>
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="no" select="wt:data_uri"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="wt:data_name"/>
</xsl:element>
</div>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Unlike other languages, XSL only has one loop statement. As it was developed explicitly for parsing files, this is appropriate. I'm sure that some of the extensions have added more loops.
I also needed to figure out how XSL does subroutines. It does this through the highly intuitive process of declaring
<xsl:template>[url=http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_call-template.asp]<xsl:call-template>[/url]You pass parameters to the "subroutine" by the equally as intuitive
[url=http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_with-param.asp]<xsl:with-param>[/url][url=http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_param.asp]<xsl:param>[/url][url=http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_value-of.asp]<xsl:value-of>[/url]<xsl:value-of>To wit:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:wt="http://www.example.com" exclude-result-prefixes="wt">
<xsl:output method="html" version="4.01"/>
<xsl:output doctype-system="http://www.w3c.org/tr/html4/strict.dtd"/>
<xsl:output doctype-public="-//W3c//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>XML Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="wt:weetest/wt:elementwrapper">
<xsl:call-template name="render_one">
<xsl:with-param name="passed_in" select='"<h1>FROM ABOVE</h1>"'/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="render_one">
<xsl:param name="passed_in"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$passed_in" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<div>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="wt:data_uri!= ''">
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="wt:data_uri"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="wt:data_name"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="wt:data_name"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
