Data View Web Parts (DVWPs) are, to me, the most powerful feature in SharePoint. You’ve probably heard them called the Swiss Army Knife of SharePoint and there’s really very little that you can’t display with them if you understand how they work. But understanding the inner working of DVWPs requires knowledge of some pretty crufty concepts: CAML and XSL. In this series, I hope to demystify the XSL side of things a bit by explaining the most common XSL tags you’re likely to see in DVWPs and what you can do with them.
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Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… <xsl:value-of> Outputs the value to which it evaluates, whether it be the value of a column, a variable, etc. <xsl:value-of> is sort of the “biggie” XSL tag. It’s what you use to output values of things that are variable. Pretty much every other tag we’ve talked about exists to get you to…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… As I got into writing this “last” article in the series, I realized that between the things people have asked me over the course of the series and the things I think might be useful, I have far more than one more article to write. I think I’ll keep this series going…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… In the last article, I talked about teasing out the various parts of the values in Person or Group column values. To do this, I relied on the substring functions which are available to us in XSL. In this article, I’ll go over a few of those string functions and show you…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… If you’ve been following this series, you’ve seen me write about the ddwrt namespace functions multiple times. They are extremely helpful functions that really aren’t documented in any formal way. A few of them show up in the XPath Expression Builder, but most of them are a mystery unless you find Serge…
Cross-posted from EndUserSharePoint.com… Another day, another wunnerful article about the DVWP. This time, I’m going to cover some of the most useful “built-in” Field / Node functions. These are functions that are a part of XSL itself and help you work with nodes in the result set. A node is a geekier term for a…