RE: select descendant problem

It rather depends on what you want to do with the nodes once you have
selected them. I suspect that you don't actually want to "select" them at
all: rather, you want to copy the part of the input tree that contains these
nodes, and not copy other parts. The way to do this is with a set of
template rules that processes (copies) the elements you are interested in,
and does something else with the others. Typically the default is to copy a
node:

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

and then you override this for nodes you want to process differently, for
example

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

which basically says "when you find an element, copy it and process its
children; but when you find a wrapper element, don't copy it, but still
process its children."

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mati Hadi [mailto:matilda.kapro@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 10 October 2008 19:00
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  select descendant problem
>
> Hi Mailinglist,
>
> I have an xml file like this:
> <wrapper class=menu>
>      <title>menu1</title>
>      <section>
>          <title>Indoor climate</title>
>          <table> some table here</table>
>          <section>
>              <title> under menus</title>
>              <paragraph>some text here</paragraph>
>          </section>
>          <wrapper class=menu>
>              <title>menu1.1</title>
>              <section>
>                  <title>Temperatur</title>
>                  <paragraph>some text here</paragraph>
>              </section>
>              <wrapper class=menu>
>                  <title>menu1.1.1</title>
>                   <section>
>                       <title>Heat</title>
>                       <paragraph>some text here</paragraph>
>                   </section>
>                   <wrapper class=menu>
>                        <title>menu1.1.1.1</title>
>                         <section>
>                            <title>Heat2</title>
>                             <paragraph>some text here</paragraph>
>                         </section>
>                   </wrapper>
>              </wrapper>
>          </wrapper>
>      </section>
> </wrapper>
>
> I want to select all the children of the wrapper, except the
> children wrappers. I mean I want to select i.e from the first
> wrapper just title, section,section/title, section/table and
> section/section,but not the child wrapper, and from the child
> wrapper, I want to select all its children except the child
> wrapper, and so on.
> I tried to write :
> <xsl: for-each select=wrapper[@class=menu]>
> <xsl:apply-templates
> select=*[not(descendant::wrapper[wrapper=menue])]/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> But this dos not work. Any ideas please
>
> Thank you in advance
> Matilda
>
>
>
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