(I have researched this question extensively but not found an adequate solution yet.)I am using XSLT to convert a series of XML files to a 'tree'-like HTML document, where the parent-child relationships between elements is reflected with indenting.The solution below works fine but it's too verbose, and we also need to accommodate adding a few newelements to the schema in the future.What's a good general-purpose solution that will do what we need? I've seen recursive solutions online where a "depth" variable is used and is incremented and passed in as a parameter, and used to drive the indenting level; this seems to be a common pattern however I could not get it to work for me.Thanks.So my data files look like this:\[code\]<document> <metadata> <version>1.0</version> <date>1/1/12</date> etc... </metadata> <trackdata> <tracks> <track>123</track> <track>456</track> etc... </trackdata></document>\[/code\]And the XSLT (Note the different values for the text-indent at the different levels):\[code\]<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl
utput method="html" indent="no"/> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="metadata"> Metadata: <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="version"> <div style="text-indent:3em">Version: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="date"> <div style="text-indent:3em">Date: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="trackdata"> Track Data: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="tracks"> <div style="text-indent:3em">Tracks: <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="track"> <div style="text-indent:6em">Track: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template>\[/code\]etc...
utput method="html" indent="no"/> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()" /> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="metadata"> Metadata: <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="version"> <div style="text-indent:3em">Version: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="date"> <div style="text-indent:3em">Date: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="trackdata"> Track Data: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="tracks"> <div style="text-indent:3em">Tracks: <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="track"> <div style="text-indent:6em">Track: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/></div> </xsl:template>\[/code\]etc...