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cameron chrisman

Subject: quick and simple newbie question on template application
Author: cameron chrisman
Date: 08 Jan 2007 02:48 PM

Ok, so this should be a pretty quick "whether XSLT can do this or not", it seems like it really should be able to, but I can't find any examples of it:

I have a stylesheet that looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="foo">
<b> foo's bold text </b>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="b">
<i> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </i>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

My input is this:

<foo/>
<b> bold text outside of foo </b>

My output is this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<b> foo's bold text </b>
<i> bold text outside of foo </i>

My desired output is this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<i> foo's bold text </i>
<i> bold text outside of foo </i>

Essentially what I want is for my rule for <b> tags to be applied in the definition of my rule for <foo> tags. I know I could do a second pass, but that seems like a hack. Is this possible to do in one pass? It seems like there should be some random trick to do this since it seems like a common operation.

Minollo I.

Subject: quick and simple newbie question on template application
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 08 Jan 2007 02:55 PM

Something like this?

<xsl:template match="foo">
<xsl:variable name="fooContent">
<b> foo's bold text </b>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$fooContent"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="b">
<i> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </i>
</xsl:template>

cameron chrisman

Subject: quick and simple newbie question on template application
Author: cameron chrisman
Date: 08 Jan 2007 03:31 PM

that gives me:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<i> bold text outside of foo </i>

i.e. empty whitespace where the evaluation of the <foo> tag should be. If I'm reading this correctly, this variable is processed and then never used.

If I try adding <xsl:value-of select="$fooContent"/> to spit out the value of this variable after the apply-templates line, it seems to strip the tags:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
foo's bold text
<i> bold text outside of foo </i>

FYI I'm using command line xsltproc with libxslt v10111.

Minollo I.

Subject: quick and simple newbie question on template application
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 08 Jan 2007 03:34 PM

Cameron,
this discussion forum is for Stylus Studio users only (http://www.stylusstudio.com/download).

Anyway, using this as input XML document:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<foo/>
<b> bold text outside of foo </b>
</root>

And this as XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="foo">
<xsl:variable name="fooContent">
<b> foo's bold text </b>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="$fooContent"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="b">
<i> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </i>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I get this output:
<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<i> foo's bold text </i>
<i> bold text outside of foo </i>

cameron chrisman

Subject: quick and simple newbie question on template application
Author: cameron chrisman
Date: 08 Jan 2007 03:42 PM

oops, sorry, I thought general discussion of xsl issues was OK here as well :P

Your point is well taken, however, as the implementation of XSLT I'm using does not produce the same results.

Ciao

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