How to provide option to print attribute

[swsdam]

First I'm a newbie to XML.

My admin is passing product info to me as XML. I was able to format my xml using a XSLT and make it look nice online. Now, I'm trying to print catalog pages from the formated xml to a pdf using a processor. OK. I can buy solutions there.

But I have been asked to provide some control over what gets printed. So here is the example.

<product name="Widget1" type="round" size="Medium" price="4.00">

I've managed to create XHTML pages that look good on screen. They look nicer than this but imagine some nice formating around this...

Widget
------------------
Type: round
Size: Medium
Price: $4.00


So now instead of printing a page that has the product info nicely formated...I have to give the user the option of printing or not printing an products attributes using something like a check box, radio button, or other control. Well I don't know how to do that.

Hopefully that makes some sense. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

Any help is appreciated.

[dorinbogdan]

Welcome to TheScripts TSDN...

At this point I think that you should use Javascript.
You could build a separate html page to be the printable version, having the "display" attribute of each printable element = "block".
to show an element use:

document.getElementById("yourElementId").style.display = "block";

to hide it, use:

document.getElementById("yourElementId").style.display = "none";

[swsdam]

Thank you Dorin. I will try that.