Filter XML in XSL using HTML Controls

[Andez]

All,

I wondered if it were possible to filter XML data based on selected options, values in combos in HTML.

Suppose I have the following simple XML:

<root>
<city name="London">
<person name="Jeff"/>
<person name="Jess"/>
</city>
<city name="Leeds">
<person name="Ang"/>
<person name="Pete"/>
</city>
</root>

Now I want to have a combo box containing the city names - London and Leeds. When the combo box value changes, I want the page to refresh to display the person names under the combo for the selected city name.

Is this possible? If so, are there any best practices or ways of doing this prefereably without using vbscript. Javascript perhaps


Andez

[jkmyoung]

The methods I have seen have generally used javascript.

1. Create a onchange method for your main combobox (city), which uses the value of the combobox as the parameter .
2. Inside the function, look for the corresponding city node with this name.
3. Get all the children of that node.
4. Get the node in your html document of the 2nd combobox.
5. Use the name attributes of the child nodes to populate the 2nd combobox.

Visual Basic method:
http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread767817.html