Operation Manual

When you apply a Repeating Region XSLT object to an element in the Document window, a thin, tabbed, gray outline appears around the

repeated region. When you preview your work in a browser (File > Preview in Browser), the gray outline disappears and the selection expands to

display the specified repeating elements in the XML file, as in the previous illustration.

When you add the Repeating Region XSLT object to the page, the length of the XML data placeholder in the Document window is truncated. This

is because Dreamweaver updates the XPath (XML Path language) expression for the XML data placeholder so that it is relative to the path of the

repeating element.

For example, the following code is for a table that contains two dynamic placeholders, without a Repeating Region XSLT object applied to the

table:

<tr>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

</table>

The following code is for the same table with the Repeating Region XSLT object applied to it:

<xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">

<tr>

</tr>

<tr>

</tr>

</table>

</xsl:for-each>

In the previous example, Dreamweaver has updated the XPath for the items that fall within the Repeating Region (title & description) to be relative

to the XPath in the enclosing <xsl:for-each> tags, rather than the full document.

Dreamweaver generates context-relative XPath expressions in other cases as well. For example, if you drag an XML data placeholder to a table

that already has a Repeating Region XSLT object applied to it, Dreamweaver automatically displays the XPath relative to the existing XPath in the

enclosing <xsl:for-each> tags.

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