The following example shows how to create your own XML RSS Feeds XSL Transformation to HTML. You will need to Create a well formed XML file, then an XML Style Sheet to do the Transformation And Finally a Web Browser to View the Results. HIGgetRSS.xml
Save As HIGgetRSS.xml or Highlight Code and Save As *.XML! <?xml-stylesheet href="HIGgetRSS.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> <HIGRSSChannels> <!-- RSS 2.0 feeds --> <HIGRSSChannel src="Howes-IT-Going_info.xml"/> <HIGRSSChannel src="Howes-IT-Going.xml"/> </HIGRSSChannels>
The following example shows how to parse XML RSS Feeds with an XSL Style Shee Transformation to HTML. The second process parses XML based RSS Feeds with: HIGgetRSS.xsl
Save As HIGgetRSS.xsl or Highlight Code and Save As *.XSL! <!-- HIGgetRSS.xsl: gets XML RSS feed(s) and converts to HTML. --> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="HIGRSSChannels"> <html><head><title>Howes-IT-Going RSS Channels</title></head> <style><xsl:comment> p { font-size: 8pt; font-family: arial,helvetica; } h1 { font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-weight: bold; } a:link { color:blue; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; } a:visited { font-weight: bold; color: darkblue; text-decoration: none; } </xsl:comment></style> <body> <xsl:apply-templates/> </body></html> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="HIGRSSChannel"> <xsl:apply-templates select="document(@src)"/> </xsl:template> <!-- Named template outputs HTML a element with href link and RSS description as title to show up in mouseOver message. --> <xsl:template name="a-element"> <xsl:element name="a"> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name()='link']"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:attribute name="title"> <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name()='description']"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="*[local-name()='title']"/> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> <!-- Output RSS channel name as HTML a link inside of h1 element. --> <xsl:template match="*[local-name()='channel']"> <xsl:element name="h1"> <xsl:call-template name="a-element"/> </xsl:element> <!-- Following line for RSS .091 --> <xsl:apply-templates select="*[local-name()='item']"/> </xsl:template> <!-- Output RSS item as HTML a link inside of p element. --> <xsl:template match="*[local-name()='item']"> <xsl:element name="p"> <xsl:call-template name="a-element"/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> <xsl:if test="dc:date"> <!-- Show date if available --> <xsl:text>( </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="dc:date"/> <xsl:text>) </xsl:text> </xsl:if> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
