Re: Value-of, copy-of

Hi Eric,

> the chunk of XSL in question is:
>
> <div class="blurb">
> <xsl:copy-of select="rss:description"/>
> </div>
[snip]
> I don't want it to output the <description> elements, only the
> content inside.

Then tell it to copy the *content* of the description element, rather
than the description element itself :)

  <xsl:copy-of select="rss:description/node()" />

Whatever nodes you select with the XPath in the select attribute are
the nodes that get copied, so if you select a description element,
then you get a description element. The above selects the nodes within
the description element, which is what you're after.

> I've tried using child::rss:description and
> descendant::rss:description, but I get exactly the same output. I'm
> also a bit annoyed by it putting the namespace declarations in the
> output, but I think it's probably a simple namespace mixup.

You can stop the processor from adding the namespace declarations to
the output (when it doesn't need to) with the exclude-result-prefixes
attribute on the xsl:stylesheet element:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:rss="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/"
                xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
                exclude-result-prefixes="rss dc">
...
</xsl:stylesheet>

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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