Title: Result Pagination with XSL
Submitter: Not specified Not specified (other recipes)
Last Updated: 2002/03/21
Version no: 1.0
Category: Miscellaneous

Description:

My technique for separating Xml results into pages. The great thing is that it is fully implemented in XSL, the bad thing is that you still have to deal with the entire result, even though you are only showing a portion of it.

Source: Text Source

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" indent="no" />

<!-- Define these two parameters. Increment or decrement 
     the "Page" Parameter by one to scroll through the results. Zero is
     the first page. The "PageSize" parameter controls the number
     of results per page. -->
<xsl:param name="Page" select="0" />
<xsl:param name="PageSize" select="5" />

<!-- This example uses a top-level message list from a discussion board. -->
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:for-each select="/TopicList/Topic">
		<!-- Check to see if we have reached the start position yet -->
		<xsl:if test="position() >= ($Page * $PageSize) + 1">
			<!-- Check to see if we have returned the right
			     number of results yet. -->
			<xsl:if test="position() <= $PageSize + ($PageSize * $Page)">
				<!-- Do Some Work -->
			</xsl:if>
		</xsl:if>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

The license for this recipe is available here.

Discussion:

It's easy to know when to display "previous" and "next" links. Tell me what you think.