topic Re: problem with document() in Alfresco Archive

problem with document()

timlterry — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:55:55 GMT

I'm having some trouble with this code <ul><xsl:for-each select="document('news1.xml')/items/link-text"><li><xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/></li></xsl:for-each></ul>The XSL file containing this code and the news1.xml file containing t

Re: problem with document()

kvc — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:30:46 GMT

That should work. One of our developer will be looking into this.

In the meantime, you can also use parseXMLDocuments in place of this to get this working immediately.

We'll update you in the next day or so.

Kevin

Re: problem with document()

timlterry — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:31:08 GMT

Sorry, I'm really new to this.

As far as I can tell the syntax should be
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="parseXMLDocuments("news1", "/items/link-text")">
<li><xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>

but I'm getting an error

SAXParseException: Expected whitespace (au-with-news-test.xsl, line 148, column 42)

When I try to preview the page in Dreamweaver.

Re: problem with document()

kvc — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:49:16 GMT

Yes, you will get an error when previewing in DreamWeaver, as parseXMLDocuments relies on our virtualization server to execute the code for this contained within the user's sandbox.

What you can do to get to work in DreamWeaver is point DreamWeaver to the virtualization server URL to your user's sandbox. Then it should preview properly in DreamWeaver as well.

Kevin

Re: problem with document()

timlterry — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:10:14 GMT

It took a lot of experimentation, but I got this working with

<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="alfarseXMLDocuments('news', '')">
<h2><xsl:value-of select="heading"/></h2>
<xsl:for-each select="news-item">
<li><xsl:value-of select="." disable-output-escaping="yes"/></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>

The "alf" bit was critical. My xml document looks like

<news>
<heading> XXXX</heading>
<news-item>XXXXXX</news-item>
</news>

The code says look in the current directory for any documents that were created by the News web form. If you find any, parse them out and look for the heading and the list items. Apply a <H2> to the heading and make all of the list-items into a list.

It seems to work well.

My next question is - When I change the news XML instance file (the one with the data in it), how do I get Alfresco to push the change to pages that are referencing my news XML instance file?