XML -> XSL -> Bulleted list with hyperlinks

Question

I am truly scratching my head with this one. I would like to create a bulleted list with hyperlinks from an XML excerpt. I can create the bulleted list, but I can't work out how to get the part together.

Here is the XML:

<list>
    <listitem>1<hyperlink><url>page1.xml</url><name>Go to Page 1</name></hyperlink></listitem>
    <listitem>2<hyperlink><url>page2.xml</url><name>Go to Page 2</name></hyperlink></listitem>
    <listitem>3<hyperlink><url>page3.xml</url><name>Go to Page 3</name></hyperlink></listitem>
    <listitem>4<hyperlink><url>page4.xml</url><name>Go to Page 4</name></hyperlink></listitem>
</list>

...and the XSL so far. The hyperlink components do not work. It may look a bit untidy through my attempts to make it work. I would like the "Go to Page n" to be the hyperlink.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">


<xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="list">
    <DIV>
        <UL><xsl:apply-templates /></UL>
    </DIV>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="listitem">
    <DIV>
        <LI><xsl:apply-templates />  </LI>
    </DIV>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="hyperlink">
        <A>
            <xsl:value-of select="hyperlink" />
        </A>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="hyperlink/url">
         HREF='<xsl:value-of select="url" />'  
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="hyperlink/name">
         <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

The current result is:

**1. HREF='page1.xml' Go to Page 1

HREF='page2.xml' Go to Page 2
HREF='page3.xml' Go to Page 3
HREF='page4.xml' Go to Page 4 **

What I need is HTML akin to this:

<A HREF='page1.xml'>Go to Page 1</A>

Any help appreciated!

Ian Roberts Ian Roberts · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-21T18:35:32

Firstly, you need take the DIV out of the listitem template (because the LI needs to end up directly inside the UL), and you can simplify all the hyperlink stuff down to one template

<xsl:template match="hyperlink">
  <A href="{url}">
    <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
  </A>
</xsl:template>

XML -> XSL -> Bulleted list with hyperlinks

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