Re: Process some elements, but not others...

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="HtdigAttributes">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="attribute" />
</xsl:template>

Ted Stresen-Reuter wrote:

I have an xml document whose elements contain html as in the following
example:

<myelement>
     <p>This is <ref>the</ref> text node</p>
</myelement>

What I'd like to be able to do is transform just the ref element and
copy all the others.

This is more or less in the XSLT 1.0 spec, under Copying.

The "identity transform" described there is a template that has a relatively
low priority and recursively copies all nodes from the source tree to the
result. If you supplement that template with another that, by virtue of
matching with a more specific node test than the other, has a higher priority,
then you can override the identity transform for certain elements:

<!-- identity transform -->
<xsl:template match="@*node()">
  <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<!-- replace a ref element with its children -->
<xsl:template match="ref">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

Also, just FYI, your source tree has a structure like this:

root
 |
 |__element 'myelement'
      |
      |__text '\n     '
      |
      |__element 'p'
      |    |
      |    |__text 'This is '
      |    |
      |    |__element 'ref'
      |    |    |
      |    |    |__text 'the'
      |    |
      |    |__text ' text node'
      |
      |__text '\n'

...that is, "This is the text node" is not very accurate; the phrase is split
among 3 different text nodes, although if you use the templates above, you'll
end up with one :)

Mike

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