xslt anyone?

I need some pointers as to how to make a loop, e.g. I want it to return all authors of a book if there's more than one.

TIA

 

Happy to help, you using PHP or ASP (or something else?)

Jay

 

Need more info.

What have you got so far?

 

this is the .xml from an amazon query, here's more info:
<ItemAttributes>
<Actor>Kirsten Dunst (Voice)</Actor>
<Actor>Janeane Garofalo (Voice)</Actor>
<Director>Hayao Miyazaki</Director>
.
.
.
</ItemAttributes>

I have this in the .xsl

<xsl:if test="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor">
Actor(s):
<xsl:for-each select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor">
<xsl:value-of select="aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor" /><br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:if>

however, the names are not showing up
screenshot

let me know if any more info is needed, thanks.

 

I would need to test this fully, however I think your context is wrong.

After you do your for-each, the xml parser now sees the context of the loop as starting from "aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor" so when you then try to get the value of the same xpath it doesn't exist.

Effectively your code is looking for...

aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor/aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor

You may be able to change your xsl:value-of to simply be "/" and it will read the nodes under "aws:ItemAttributes/aws:Actor" for you.

It's late, try this, i will look in the morning if you have no luck.

Jay

 

this works, although I think it can be done without a for loop.
<xsl:value-of select="." />