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 Sandra Mcdonnell wrote:
> Hi, I'm new to the list, to XML, to XSL, XSLT and pretty much everything
> related.
>
> I am trying to do what seems like a simple operation. I just want a
> stylesheet that calls a template in which nested templates specify
> formatting for specific nodes.
You don't nest templates, except when you're using xsl:for-each. The match
attribute on xsl:template does not mean "go find and process nodes that match
this pattern". It means "I declare that this template is good for processing a
node that matches this pattern". It is the xsl:apply-templates instruction
that selects nodes for processing. Processing begins at the root node, so the
template that matches the root node needs to have an xsl:apply-templates in it
to select other nodes for processing. The best matching templates for those
nodes are then instantiated in a certain order, depending on how the selection
was made. There are built-in templates for each type of node, so you will
always have a match, and a default behavior of traversing through most of the
source tree if you don't override any of them.
I have no idea what kind of HTML you were trying to produce; this
business you had in your example is just wrong in so many ways...
<html>
<font face="Arial" color="black" size="24" style="bold"/>
<br/>
</html>
I don't know what your XML looks like, either, but this should give you the
general idea. Adjust the path/to/Head1 as necessary to match your source tree.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>foo</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/path/to/Head1"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Head1">
<h1>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</h1>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
- Mike
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