Creating HTML Tables

Problem

You want to map XML content onto HTML tables.

Solution

Tables are often created in two stages. First, the top-level table markup is generated, and then templates are applied to create rows and fields. The solution is a modification of part of the stylesheet produced in Recipe 8.2. The changed portion is highlighted: 

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.1" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
   
<xsl:output method="html"/>
   
<xsl:param name="URL"/>
   
<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="index"/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="*" mode="content"/>
</xsl:template>
   
<!-- =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  = -->
<!--             Create index.html  (mode = "index")                -->
<!-- =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  = -->
<xsl:template match="salesBySalesperson" mode="index">
  <!-- Non-standard saxon xsl:document! -->
  <xsl:document href="index.html">     
    <html>
     <head>
      <title>Sales by Salesperson</title>
     </head>
    
     <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
      <h1>Sales By Salesperson</h1>
      <xsl:apply-templates mode="index"/>
     </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:document>
</xsl:template>
   
<xsl:template match="salesperson" mode="index">
  <h2>
    <a href="{concat($URL,@name,'.html')}">
      <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
    </a>
  </h2>
</xsl:template>
   
<!-- =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  = -->
<!--          Create @name.html  (mode = "content")                 -->
<!-- =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  =  = -->
   
<xsl:template match="salesperson" mode="content">
               <xsl:document ...

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