xslt实现递归

http://jonmifsud.com/blog/xslt-recursion/

 

Where would XSLT Recursion be useful

There are plenty of times where XSLT Recursion can really make your life simple, I'll take a simple use-case. Below find some XML have a look at it.

              <root>
    <navigation>
        <page id='1'>Home</page>
        <page id='2'>About</page>
        <page id='3' parent='2'>Staff</page>
        <page id='4'>Contact</page>
        <page id='5'>Terms & Conditions</page>
        <page id='6' parent='3'>John Doe</page>
        <page id='7' parent='3'>Directors</page>
    </navigation>
</root>

            

So there you have an XML representing some pages from a web-page, which has hierarchical properties described in the parent attribute. The system does not define a limit of sub-pages allowed so it is safe to assume that there could be more then three levels. What would you do if you had to transform this to basic breadcrumbs using XSLT without Recursion? Most likely do a three level-check to add the next level. Lets see how a Recursive XSLT template would look like.

              <xsl:template name='breadcrumb'>
    <xsl:with-param name='pageid'>
    <!-- Define a variable to select the current page -->
    <xsl:variable name='currentPage' select='/root/navigation/page[@id=$pageid]'/>
    <xsl:if test='$currentPage/@parent'
        <!-- If this page has a parent do a recursive call using the parent id -->
        <xsl:call-template name='breadcrumb'>
            <xsl:with-param name='pageid' select='$currentPage/@parent'>
        </xsl:call-template>
        <xsl:text> / </xsl:text>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:value-of select='$currentPage'>
</xsl:template>

            

The above XSLT Recursion example explains how to transform the XML into a breadcrumb output for the current page. Note that in real breadcrumbs you would also have links which were omitted for the simplicity of the example