Problem with portlets with XSLT generating dynamic portal compatible links

Question

Hi,
We're using XSLT to transform XML data to HTML in a portlet. The problem is that
the XML contains headlines and we need to create links to the complete article,
which has to be displayed in the same portlet. How do I create a portal comaptible
link with XSLT? In the JSP you can use the netui tag library like:
<netui:anchor action="..">
link
<netui:parameter name="id" value="{id}"/>
</netui:anchor>
but how can I achieve this with XSLT? We tried generating the xsl with a jsp,
but this doesn't work since the data entered in the value attribute of the netui:parameter
tag will be encoded causing the XSL transformer to fail.
Is there an easy solution to this? Or can XSLT only be used with very simple content?
Ard

Answer 1

We're trying to display some news headlines, clicking a headline has to invoke
an action to display the complete article in the same portlet (using pageflow).
When displaying the articles we use XSLT like (this is a JSP generating XSLT):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<%@ page contentType="text/x-xslt"%>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="items">
<xsl:apply-templates select="item"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
<nobr>
<%-- ###### Here we need an action link, with the title as a request parameter
###### --%>
<xsl:value-of select="@title"/>
</nobr>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The XML is like:
<items>
<item title="some title"/>
<item title="some other title"/>
</items>
We need to generate a portal compatible link which invokes an action (show_details)
with the title of the article as a request parameter.
I know how to do this in a JSP, but since the data is in XML we like to do this
with XSLT.
Can you help?
Subbu Allamaraju <subbuATBeaDOTCom> wrote:
Could you elaborate (perhaps with some xsl snippet generated by jsp)
the
failures you were getting with xslt?
Subbu
Ard van der Scheer wrote:
Hi,
We're using XSLT to transform XML data to HTML in a portlet. The problemis that
the XML contains headlines and we need to create links to the completearticle,
which has to be displayed in the same portlet. How do I create a portalcomaptible
link with XSLT? In the JSP you can use the netui tag library like:
<netui:anchor action="..">
link
<netui:parameter name="id" value="{id}"/>
</netui:anchor>
but how can I achieve this with XSLT? We tried generating the xsl witha jsp,
but this doesn't work since the data entered in the value attributeof the netui:parameter
tag will be encoded causing the XSL transformer to fail.
Is there an easy solution to this? Or can XSLT only be used with verysimple content?
Ard