XSLT Assignment 2 (for Informatics students)

Unless you are also studying another Informatics course, you should do the HTML version of this assignment.

If you are doing this XSLT version of the assignment, first use the lab to do some simple experiments with XSLT.

Go to the w3schools xsl page. This provides an environment where you can experiment with XSL. The example given sets up a simple table. You can edit the XML of the XSLT and then click the Edit and Click Me button to see the result.

1. Instead of a table, construct a bulleted list of entries, with the title in italics followed by the name of the artist.
2. Try to present the information in different forms.
3. Now add the price.  Use CSS to precede it by a £ sign.
4. Try the sorting example from w3schools.
5. Can you sort the CDs by price instead of by the artist's name?
6. Try the conditional test example.
7. Can you just list the CDs from the 1980s?
8. Now put the xml version of your recipe in the XML box and try to present it by writing appropriate XSLT in the right-hand box.
9. You should submit your recipe(s) as XML, together with XSL and CSS for presentation.

Notes

Include your matriculation number (student ID) in each file you submit.
In xml and html please include your student id between <!-- and --> inside the top-level tag of your code. For css, please include your student ID between /* and */ at the end of your recipe.css file.
Submit your assignment by email To annette.leonhard@ed.ac.uk Subject: Assignment-IL-1
You will have to edit a number of text files. We recommend TextEdit on the Mac, but you can use any editor that allows you to edit HTML as plain text. To edit files as plain text in TextEdit, go to the TextEdit Preferences (in the TextEdit menu). Select the Plain Text format under the New Document tab, then tick the box for Ignore rich text commands in HTML files, under the Open and Save tab.
For this assignment you have to produce four files (which you can store in a Folder on your Desktop on the Macs in the 3.01 lab).
These files are:


report

A short (max one page) report.

recipe.xml

An XML representation of your recipe.

recipe.html

An XSL transformation to produce the HTML layout of your recipe.

recipe.css

This file should use CSS properties to style your layout. You may find it useful to look at some examples.

Your folder should also include your image(s) and any other files used in your presentation.