AW: not having all the children of an element in the o

hi,
the trick is to define an empty stylesheet for "note":

<xsl:template match="p | term">
	<xsl:element name="{name()}">
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="note"/>

the first template simply copies (or better constructs anew) the elements p and term and then processes all contained elements/text. the 2nd does nothing, so effectively the "note" elements and all their children elements/text will be stripped from the output. 
i used the following xml and hope its what you meant, your example was not wellformed:

<p>some text <term>some phrase</term><note><term>basic form of the phrase><gloss>explanation of the phrase</gloss>some text.</term></note>
</p>


chris



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> Von: Toma Tasovac [mailto:ttasovac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2003 13:05
> An: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff:  not having all the children of an element in the output
> 
> 
> Hi!  This is a pretty basic question, so I hope you won't mind me 
> posting it here.
> 
> I have an XML doc which contains certain marked terms and has notes 
> attached next to them, like this:
> 
> 	<p>some text <term>some phrase</term><note><term>basic 
> form of the 
> phrase><gloss>explanation of the phrase</gloss>some text.</p>
> 
> In other words, <p> element can have two children: <term> marking the 
> phrase as it appears in the text and being part of the text 
> itslef, and 
> <note> which attaches a note explaining the term in some detail.
> 
> I am having problems designing an xsl template which will output:
> 
> <p>some text<term>some phrase</term>some text</p>
> 
> i.e. which will include only one of the two possible children 
> elements... Everything I do outputs either both <term> and <note> OR 
> neither one of them... What's the trick?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Toma
> 
> 
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