Archive for category XPath

RSS XSLT

Posted by shawson in XML, XPath on July 28th, 2009

Simple piece of XSL to format an RSS Feed;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output method="html"></xsl:output>
    <xsl:template match="rss/channel/item">
    <li>
      <a href="{link}" title="{title}">
        <xsl:value-of select="title" />
      </a>
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="description" />
      </p>
    </li>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Consuming RSS Feeds using ASP.net controls

Posted by shawson in .net, XML, XPath on July 24th, 2009

Real simple example, using an XmlDataSource and my new super best friend, the ListView control;

    <asp:ListView ID="RSSList" runat="server" DataSourceID="RSSData">
        <LayoutTemplate>
            <ul>
                <li id="itemPlaceholder" runat="server" />
            </ul>
        </LayoutTemplate>
        <ItemTemplate>
            <li><h2>
                <%#XPath("title") %>
            </h2>

            <%#XPath("author") %>
            <a href='<%#XPath("link") %>' title=''>View Original Post</a>
            </li>
        </ItemTemplate>
    </asp:ListView>
    <asp:XmlDataSource
        ID="RSSData"
        runat="server"
        DataFile="http://www.shawson.co.uk/codeblog/feed/"
        XPath="rss/channel/item">
    </asp:XmlDataSource>

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Visually build XPath using “Sketch Path”

Posted by shawson in Web Services, XML, XPath on June 30th, 2009

Paul found an awesome tool fopr visually parsing XML files and building XPath statements, called Sketch Path available for download here

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