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Re: output node with subnodes "as-is"

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• Subject: Re: output node with subnodes "as-is"
• From: richard@i... (Richard Tobin)
• Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 13:09:45 +0000 (GMT)
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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>A more usual case is where you want templates
>that do an identity transform but then have higher priority templates
>for certain special attributes that do something other than copy.

I wish XSLT had provided the identity transform as the default
template instead of the markup-stripping ones.

We find this case so common that I have recently written a program
that takes a single template on the command line and inserts it
into a stylesheet with a low-priority identity template:

  lxreplace -q match-expr -t template-body

To make it even simpler for the simple cases, the stylesheet defines
some entities:

 <!ENTITY this
          "<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select='@*|node()'/></xsl:copy>">
 <!ENTITY attrs "<xsl:apply-templates select='@*'/>">
 <!ENTITY children "<xsl:apply-templates select='node()'/>">
 <!ENTITY text "<xsl:value-of select='.'/>">

Simple examples are wrapping elements:

  lxreplace -q 'foo[@bar="unknown"]' -t '<bogus>&this;</bogus>'

renaming elements:

  lxreplace -q 'foo' -t '<bar>&attrs;&children;</bar>'

and moving the text content of an element into an attribute:

  lxreplace -q 'foo' -t '<foo value="{.}"/>'

-- Richard

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