Weird diplay problem with XSL / XML

[lucky]

Hi Guys

You are probably my last chance to avoid getting crazy

To help you understand my problem I have put images online showing the
issue I have:
http://www.australix.net/images/pb
I have an XML file containing links and I use an XSL file to build a
menu using thoses links.
There is actually 2 levels in my menu as the links are organised
within sections.

When the menu is loaded, only the section headers are shown (see the
first image).
I you click on a section header, the links of the section are diplayed
(see the second image) and the other sections are closed.

But when I click on the second section, the links are displayed as it
should be but an additional and unwanted space appears below the fouth
section, with a few letters (the last letters of the fourth section
header) displayed at the bottom of this space ("h Engines" on the
third image).
The other sections are all working fine.

I have displayed the source of the page and if I search for the string
"Engines", I get only one result which is the regular fourth section
header. Moreover I can't hightlight the additional text but if I
hightlight the regular one the additional one is hightlighted too.
If I try to remove one or the other section from the xml file, I get
the same problem with another section, or even sometimes 2 !

I have tried everything and I can't find any logical relation between
the changes I do and the results I get.

Is there anyone who has already seen something like this ??

thanks for your help !

Luc

[Johan]

On 21 feb, 14:26, "lucky" <lfe...@nordnet .frwrote:

Hi Guys

You are probably my last chance to avoid getting crazy

To help you understand my problem I have put images online showing the
issue I have:http://www.australix.net/images/pb

I have an XML file containing links and I use an XSL file to build a
menu using thoses links.
There is actually 2 levels in my menu as the links are organised
within sections.

When the menu is loaded, only the section headers are shown (see the
first image).
I you click on a section header, the links of the section are diplayed
(see the second image) and the other sections are closed.

But when I click on the second section, the links are displayed as it
should be but an additional and unwanted space appears below the fouth
section, with a few letters (the last letters of the fourth section
header) displayed at the bottom of this space ("h Engines" on the
third image).
The other sections are all working fine.

I have displayed the source of the page and if I search for the string
"Engines", I get only one result which is the regular fourth section
header. Moreover I can't hightlight the additional text but if I
hightlight the regular one the additional one is hightlighted too.
If I try to remove one or the other section from the xml file, I get
the same problem with another section, or even sometimes 2 !

I have tried everything and I can't find any logical relation between
the changes I do and the results I get.

Is there anyone who has already seen something like this ??

thanks for your help !

Luc

Install the Web Developer Extension for Firefox and use View Source,
View Generated Source.
http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/

[lucky]

I use the IE developer toolbar but I'm not able to find the additional
text. It's just as if it didn't exist!

Any other idea?

[Joe Kesselman]

lucky wrote:

I use the IE developer toolbar but I'm not able to find the additional
text. It's just as if it didn't exist!

Maybe it doesn't exist.

Hard to say without having the source files to look at, preferably in a
simplified form that just demonstrates the part you're having trouble with.
--
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[lucky]

Hi Joe

Thanks for your answer.
This is what I'm assuming is the faulty code.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<xsl:styleshe et version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http ://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/
Transform">
<xsl:variable name="dt" select="'number '"/<xsl:key name="items"
match="zrow" use="substring-before(substrin g-after(@ows_File Ref, '/
Quick Find/Useful Links/'), '/')" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//zrow[generate-id(.)=generate-
id(key('items', substring-before(substrin g-after(@ows_File Ref, '/Quick
Find/Useful Links/'), '/')))]">
<xsl:sort select="substri ng-after(@ows_File Ref, '#Lists/')"/>
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="substring-before(substrin g-after(@ows_File Ref, '/Quick
Find/Useful Links/'),'/') != ''">
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
<a href="javascrip t:void(0);" id="T2menuChann el{position()}"
onclick="showHi de('T2tab{posit ion()}a');
T2channelToggle ('T2menuChannel {position()}'); " class="leftNavC hannel">
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substri ng-before(substrin g-
after(@ows_File Ref, '/Quick Find/Useful Links/'),'/')" />
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
</a>

<div id="T2tab{posit ion()}a" style="display: none;">
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text<table class="rightNav SubLinks">
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text><tr><t d style="border-width:
1;border-style:solid; ">
<xsl:for-each select="key('it ems',substring-
before(substrin g-after(@ows_File Ref, '/Quick Find/Useful Links/'),
'/'))">
<xsl:sort select="number( @ows_ItemOrder) "/>
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
<a href="{@ows_Nav igateURL}" target="_blank"
class="leftNavP osting0"><xsl:v alue-of select="@ows_Li nkTitle"/></a><br/

>

<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text>
</xsl:for-each>
</td></tr>
<xsl:text>&#xa; </xsl:text<tr><td height="5px"></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</xsl:if>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers

Luc

[p.lepin]

On Feb 22, 6:24 am, "lucky" <lfe...@nordnet .frwrote:

This is what I'm assuming is the faulty code.

Have you tried debugging it? Have you tried feeding it into
a standalone XSLT processor and attempting to find out
what's wrong with the resulting document? Have you tried
reproducing the bug in a test transformation?

[terrible code]

This is not well-formed, poorly indented and thoroughly
for-eachnalized. You haven't provided a sample document for
transformation either. What did you expect? As I happens, I
do possess a supernatural power of Gazing-At-A-Ball-Of-Mud-
And-Pointing-Straight-At-The-Bug, but I charge for using it
on per-hour basis.

--
Pavel Lepin

[lucky]

This is the first time I work with XML and I had a very short time to
do it.
So yes, it is probably not well-formated and whatever you want.

But there's no need to be rude.

Anybody else willing to be more constructive?

[Joseph Kesselman]

lucky wrote:

So yes, it is probably not well-formated and whatever you want.

If XML isn't well-formed (not "well-formatted", but structurally
correct) it simply isn't XML and no XML tool will accept it. I haven't
tried running your stylesheet code but if it's it really is ill-formed
you MUST start by fixing that or nothing else will work.
As Pavel pointed out, it's hard to debug code without knowing what the
input looks like and what output you expected from it. Trying to
reverse-engineer and debug someone else's code from first principles is
a pain in the arse, and you really want to make it easier for us if you
want assistance.
--
Joe Kesselman / Beware the fury of a patient man. -- John Dryden

[Bosconian]

<p.*****@ctncor p.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ v45g2000cwv.goo glegroups.com.. .

On Feb 22, 6:24 am, "lucky" <lfe...@nordnet .frwrote:

>This is what I'm assuming is the faulty code.

Have you tried debugging it? Have you tried feeding it into
a standalone XSLT processor and attempting to find out
what's wrong with the resulting document? Have you tried
reproducing the bug in a test transformation?

>[terrible code]

This is not well-formed, poorly indented and thoroughly
for-eachnalized. You haven't provided a sample document for
transformation either. What did you expect? As I happens, I
do possess a supernatural power of Gazing-At-A-Ball-Of-Mud-
And-Pointing-Straight-At-The-Bug, but I charge for using it
on per-hour basis.

--
Pavel Lepin

Hey Lepin, everyone here is pretty fed-up with your sarcastic and belittling
posts.

You're a one-trick pony who only knows enough about XML to be dangerous. You
bully and intimidate people into thinking you know what you're talking
about, but the truth is you don't know much about anything.

You are coward who lacks the social grace of a common housefly. Do us all a
favor and keep your hole shut unless you have something helpful to
contribute.

[Joe Kesselman]

This may be a good time to recommend that people review

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

.... which is itself blunt almost to the point of being rude, but which
folks really need to understand if they're going to get help from Usenet.

(On the other hand, I do sorta agree that in many cases the right
response to a sloppy question is to ignore it, unless you have the
patience to walk them through correcting it.)

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