Thread: If Statement in XML Package

I am trying to diplay a topics page through my category XML package based on which category is selected.

For example
If category 5 is selected
show topics page 5

I have tried this code and I get an error

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$CurrentEntityNode">
<div>
<xsl:if test="@categoryId = '10'"><xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('cattpage.drivertop')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="@categoryId = '11'"><xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('cattpage.driverbottom')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></xsl:if></div>
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<div><xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('SearchPageHeader')" disable-output-escaping="yes" /></div>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>

What's the exact error you are getting? Are you variables all declared and set?

My mistake. I am not getting an error. Just no results.

Thank you for your reply.

Andrew

I just want a simple way to load one topics page over another based on what category you are in.

My guess is this would be call through the XML package and I assumed it would use an if thank or case statement.

Please help if you can.

Thank you

Andrew P.

What is your variable "$CurrentEntityNode" set to?

If you want to use an if then statement you could do something like:

<xsl:variable name="categoryID" select="/root/Runtime/EntityID" />

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$categoryID = 10">
<xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('cattpage.drivertop')" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$categoryID = 11">
<xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('cattpage.driverbottom')" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<div><xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('SearchPageHeader')" disable-output-escaping="yes" /></div>
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>


If it was me I would rename your topics to include the category id that you want it to be used on. So for example rename "cattpage.drivertop" to "cattpage.10". Then you could just use the following code and would never have to change the code for each different category which makes your code more dynamic:

<xsl:variable name="topicName" select="concat('cattpage.', /root/Runtime/EntityID)" />
<xsl:variable name="topicContents" select="aspdnsf:Topic($topicName)" />

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length($topicContents) &gt; 0">
<xsl:value-of select="$topicContents" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</xsl:when>
<xsltherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="aspdnsf:Topic('SearchPageHeader')" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</xsltherwise>
</xsl:choose>