XSL and design view

[joer33304]

I REPOST this, is there no body who can help ?? Its really VERY VERY annoying !
I must add that also the small tags dw puts if things like xsl:choose screw up
the whoel design. It would be halepfull to be able to toggle the display of
those tags in design view.

My originla post:

On xsl template sthe whole design view shows wrong when the path expression is
longer than the resul will be.

Example:

the outpur will be:

<td style="width:20px">1</td>

the xsl is


<td style="width:20px"><xsl:value-od
select="someverylongxpathexpression"/></td>

in design view my cell is now 300 px or so....

Is there not any option wher DW cuts the path expression to the correct cell
size ? To me the DW xsl development is totally useless if DW screws up the
design like that completely !

[ChrisBank]

Try going to Preferences > Invisible Elements and change the combo box for
"Show Dynamic Text as" to "{}". Then the only thing you'll see in Design View
is {} which should be less that 20px wide.

Hope that helps,
Chris

[joer33304]

Hi Chris,

thanks so much ! This solves 50 % of the problems, what is left are the xsl
commands like xsl:choose,xsl:if. For example I have a small cell with 10
different options of html based on the xsl data. In dw this now shows up as 10
lines, so my original line of lets say 20 px height is 200px high in dw design
mode. I unchecked everything in invisble elements, but it stil shows up. Any
solution for this ?

Thanks again

Joe

[ChrisBank]

There's not an easy preference for these. Depending on your layout you could
try a design time style sheet and some rules to hide all but the first element
in your statements. You can read more about Design Time Style sheets and how to
use them on the LiveDocs article:


[url]http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/9.0/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d6[/url]
5-7e17.html

Hope that helps,
Chris

[joer33304]

Chris,

thanks so much. Some extra work to add divs for design and run time, but yes this works !