03-60-440 Principles of Programming Languages (2011 Fall)

School of Computer Science, University of Windsor

 

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Assignment: XSLT (5 points)

Due date: October 24, 4pm

Please submit on clew.uwindsor.ca by attaching your course.xsl file. At the bottom of the XSLT assignment page on clew web site, there is a submission section where you can choose a file and submit that as an attachment.

You need to write an xslt program called course.xsl. You can run your program using the following command:

    > java -classpath xalan\xalan.jar org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in course.xml -xsl course.xsl -out course.html

Before running the java program, you need to download xalan, the java implementation (processor) of XSLT, from xalan.apache.org. Alternatively, you can directly download from here the xalan.jar file and serializer.jar file.

You need to put all the files in the directory where you run the command.

You can use other tools to run xslt, such as a browser. Most of the case the result will be the same as xalan. Since your assignment will be tested using xalan, it is safer for you to test on xalan before your submission.

Assignment specification

Given an XML document about courses in a university as this, write an XSLT called course.xsl to extract the course ID, year, course  title, prof, meeting days, time, and location, and present the data in an HTML file as in this sample output. There are three requirements you need to take care of:

 

  1. You should extract the courses that are offered since year 2003  (including 2003).
  2. Some courses are taught by more than one prof. You need to list all the professors,  separated by a comma ",". Please note that you should not print a comma at the very end of the professor list. you can consider to use test="position()=last()" in XSLT.  Some courses are cross listed and hence have different course-ids. You need to list all the course IDs, separated by ",". 
  3. When you click the course title, the course description will popup. This is implemented by JavaScript and you can reuse the javaScript as in the output. 
        function addDisplay (details) {
        document.write(details);
    }
    Note that document.write in the above javaScript code simply print the string in its parameter to the page. What you need to consider is to pass the course description into javaScript function addDisplay(). The XSLT code used can include <xsl:attribute name="href">, which is introducing href attribute. Following that you can add the attribute value.

 

Dr. Jianguo Lu   Email: jlu at uwindsor,  Office: LT5111