Rx 5.7 create snippet w/o psx markup

Rhythmyx Technical Discussion
1

looking to create a snippet using xsl only with no psx markup. (see code below)


<!-- begin XSL -->
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<!-- end XSL -->
<html>
<head>
<title>psx-window_title</title>
<link psx-href="$rxs_navbase/css/Tourist.css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/Tourist.css" type="text/css" />
</head>
<body>
<span class="ContextualHelp">
	<!-- begin XSL -->
	<xsl:value-of select="concat(header,' - ',shared/body)" />
	</xsl:attribute>
	<!-- end XSL -->
</span>
</body>
</html>

I get the following error
An exception occurred while processing the whitebox XML document through the file:PO_freetext_cas/s_FreeTextToolTips.xsl style sheet: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type “span” must be terminated by the matching end-tag “</span>”. [Error data in range: <xsl:value-of select=“concat(header,’ - ',shared/body)” /> </xsl:attribute> <!-- end XSL -->]

Any ideas how I can get around this?

2

One obvious problem is that you have a closing xsl:attribute element, but not an opening one inside the span tag. This might cause the error you are seeing.

3

Opps :wink:
With that corrected and previewed nothing is displayed (although the header and body items are shown in the preview xml). Frustratingly the title tag is closing but not opening.


<html>
<head>
<meta content="Percussion Rhythmyx" name="generator"/>
<title/>
<link href="../web_resources/POTourist/css/Tourist.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
</head>
<body>
4

Hi Nicki

I think the title tag is the problem as some browsers will not display content without a title tag.

Check that window_title is definitely in the mappings. You can also try using psx-sys_title as an alternative.

Cheers
James

5

Thanks James
psx-window_title seemed to be the culprit. By changing it to psx-sys_title didn’t solve the entire problem tho.
The only way we got it to work was by adding text outside of the xsl but still within the span.

6

Hi Nicki

I’ve had this before. If your snippet template only contains XSL code then add a psx-dummy at the end of the template just before the end of body tag eg

<body>
<span class="ContextualHelp">
	<!-- begin XSL -->
	<xsl:value-of select="concat(header,' - ',shared/body)" />
	<!-- end XSL -->
</span>
psx-dummy
</body>

Cheers
James