I cannot believe I just called you Steve.

Sorry, Scott. [blush]

It is true that I'm working on a script right now starring a
character named Steve, so perhaps that's an extenuating
circumstance. But still. One does feel foolish.

Thanks again. :)

Bill

+++ Bill Powell [28/09/07 17:20 -0400]:
> Steve - Wonderful! Thanks very much! This is just the sort
> of thing that can slip through the cracks; much appreciated.
> I went to the #xml channel on irc.freenode.net, and the only
> one who answered was having the same problem. I'm going to
> post this on my blog with as many searchable terms as I can
> think of, as well as a link to the archived thread.
> 
> Thanks again!
> Bill Powell
> 
> 
> +++ Scott Trenda [28/09/07 16:03 -0500]:
> > Bill - 
> > 
> > XSLT handles HTML output beautifully natively. I'm guessing that you'll
> > want something like the following: (I'm not sure what all of your
> > non-HTML tags are, so just take the pattern from the sect1 template:)
> > 
> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> >   <xsl:output method="html"/>
> > 
> >   <!-- This will handle any nodes we don't explicitly define templates
> > for.
> >        It copies the source as-is, and xsl:output handles the HTML
> > format.  -->
> >   <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> >     <xsl:copy>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> >     </xsl:copy>
> >   </xsl:template>
> > 
> >   <!-- sect1 means h1 -->
> >   <xsl:template match="sect1">
> >     <h1>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> >     </h1>
> >   </xsl:template>
> > 
> > </xsl:stylesheet>
> > 
> > 
> > And that's it. Basically, the XSLT processor knows how to handle the
> > formatting differences between XML and HTML, so we use <xsl:output
> > method="html"/> to put it into that mode. The first template is a basic
> > "copy everything" template, and after that, just set up a series of
> > templates to intercept nodes that need to be renamed or reformatted.
> > 
> > Simple enough? ~_^
> > 
> > ~ Scott
> 

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