How to easily make animated forums using XSLT and Ajaxy
Today is a special day. Today our XSLT lessons will show some really interesting (attractive) results which you can apply in practice. We will make a forum. Initially we will display only the forum topics, and load posts dynamically (by mouse clicking on the topics) using ajax technology. I think you may have seen similar forums on the Internet, so I will tell you how to do it your own.
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Creating multilevel menu using XSLT
Today we continue the practice of using XSLT. And lets consider a very entertaining task – the creation of navigation menu through XSL transformations. Someone will think that this is a fairly simple task, but we complicate it in advance – the menu should be multilevel. That is mean an unlimited number of sublevels. As initial data we will have an XML file with defined structure. At the output we will expect our multi-level drop-down menu.
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How to Easily display Delicious bookmarks using XSLT transformation
Today we will create application which will show our Delicious bookmarks. We will use XSLT transformation to parse XML provided by Delicious. I will using my profile for our sample. And here are path for my XML feeds: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/AramisGC. So, we have all for begining. Today I`ll show you how to display this information in your projects.
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XPath visually
XPath is one of important keys to understanding of XSLT. And at first time we usually looking for any information (better – places where we can play online) – how to get different values in branch of XML tree. In this article I`ll give you all important information and will show how to work with XPath in samples.
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How to Build tags cloud using XSLT transformation
As all we know – tags cloud is some array of links at page where bigger units mean more important things. If your project have any interesting information (blogs, or other text content), it will useful to put cloud of tags at your homepage. Of course, one of way will just make all this using pure PHP to draw necessary links in different size, but lets try today to use xslt than just PHP. One of good side is that we can configure all necessary params (as example min font size and max font size, possible other details like different font classes if you want to use different colors etc) out of PHP logic. READ MORE »
How to Easily display Youtube videos using XSLT transformation
Today we will create application which will show our Youtube videos. Also we will draw youtube player for our videos. We will use XSLT transformation to parse XML provided by Youtube API. I will using my profile for our sample. Youtube API providing next path for XML feed: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/AramisGC/uploads. So, we have all to start. Today I`ll show you how to display this information in any view. READ MORE »
How to Easily display Your Stumbleupon Favorites using XSLT
Today I will tell you about another similar tutorial, but about Stumbleupon. We will create application which will show our (or any wished profile) Stumbleupon posts. And we will use XSLT transformation to parse XML (RSS) provided by Stumbleupon. I will using my profile for our sample. After some investigation I find that SU provide our list of favs in rss format here: http://www.stumbleupon.com/syndicate.php?stumbler=aramisgc – where ‘aramisgc’ is my account name. Also, we can obtain our comments too: http://www.stumbleupon.com/syndicate.php?stumbler=aramisgc&comments=1. So, we have all to start. Today I`ll show you how to display this information in any view. READ MORE »
How to Easily display Twitter posts using XSLT transformation
Today I will tell you how to create application which will display your Tweets (or someone else) at your website. And we will use XSLT transformation to parse XML (RSS) provided by Twitter. As example I take my Twitter account. At this page you can see that I have RSS channel: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/83882961.rss. Today I`ll show you how to display this information in any view. READ MORE »
How to Easily display Digg posts via XSLT using Digg Api
As we know, Digg become very popular last time, so why not use it for our purposes? I decided to investigate Digg a little and learn how possible to draw Digg posts at my own website. And I make own unique method. Hope you will like it.
Reading http://digg.com/api/docs/1.0/groups/ I find necessary ways to get posts XML results. Just check story.getPopular method. Yes, this is usual to use different reparse methods in PHP, but lets learn something new like XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations).
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