make the xml drill down

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We have an xml doc that contains different levels:

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<Root>
	<folder name="aaa">
		<folder name="abb">
			<file name="ccc.pdf" url="c:\test\ccc.pdf"/>
			<file name="ddd.pdf" url="c:\test\ddd.pdf"/>
			<file name="eee.pdf" url="c:\test\eee.pdf"/>
			<file name="fff.pdf" url="c:\test\fff.pdf"/>
		</folder>
		<folder name="acc">
			<file name="ggg.pdf" url="c:\test\ggg.pdf"/>
			<file name="hhh.pdf" url="c:\test\hhh.pdf"/>
		</folder>
	</folder>
	<folder name="bbb">
		<folder name="bba">
			<file name="iii.pdf" url="c:\test\iii.pdf"/>
		</folder>
		<folder name="bbc" />
	</folder>
	<folder name="ccc">
			<file name="iii.pdf" url="c:\test\iii.pdf"/>
			<file name="jjj.pdf" url="c:\test\jjj.pdf"/>
			<file name="kkk.pdf" url="c:\test\kkk.pdf"/>
			<file name="lll.pdf" url="c:\test\lll.pdf"/>
	</folder>
</Root>

My question is how to using xsl to make the xml drill down like expand collapse(toggle) the folder name. and also make the file linkable (by the attribute url)

Posted 26-Jun-13 8:53am

lmik9898

Updated 26-Jun-13 9:58am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Jun-13 15:14pm

You need to specify exactly what do you have to achieve. "Drill down" is not informative enough.
—SA

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H.Brydon · Answer 1 · 2013-06-26T09:16:00

What you are displaying there is not xml.
The xml does not "drill down" using xsl. You can use xsl transforms to look at the data in different ways but I don't think that is what you want.

I think what you want to do is read the xml into a dom, and use XPath queries to find different pieces of the data. Ask Google about 'XPath'.

[mod 1]
Okay, you changed the question so that the data presented is now in xml format. Your question is still vague, but I think the answer you want is still to use XPath for whatever it is you are trying to do.