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Subject: Re: [xsl] A simple basic question From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 13:01:57 +0100 |
Hi Philip, > I looked at various XSL guides, but I still can't figure out how to > transform this: > > <document> > <paragraph>Here is a <bold>bold</bold> word.</paragraph> > <paragraph>Here is an <italic>italic</italic> word.</paragraph> > </document> > > into this: > > <body> > <p>Here is a <b>bold</b> word.</p> > <p>Here is an <i>italic</i> word.</p> > </document> > > The part I have trouble with is the <bold> and <italic>. The thing > is that they could appear anywhere in the document; they're not part > of a rigid structure. It seems that when I use <xsl:value-of > select="paragraph">, the <bold> and <italic> tags inside just get > stripped out. Rather than getting the *value of* the paragraph (the value of something is always just a string; the value of an element is the text underneath the element), apply templates to it: <xsl:apply-templates select="paragraph" /> Then have a template for paragraph elements that creates a p element, and applies template to the content of the paragraph element to create the content of the p element: <xsl:template match="paragraph"> <p><xsl:apply-templates /></p> </xsl:template> Then have templates for bold and italic elements that likewise create b and i elements, and apply templates to their content to create the content of the b and i elements: <xsl:template match="bold"> <b><xsl:apply-templates /></b> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="italic"> <i><xsl:apply-templates /></i> </xsl:template> If you're familiar with CSS, you can think of each XSLT template as like a CSS rule that says how a particular element (the thing matched by the template) should be displayed, except that in XSLT the 'display' part is actually the creation of some new content. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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