Re: Another newbie question

<FORMS>
    <CONTAINERS>
        <CONTAINER>
            <PRE_HTML>DEPT_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
            <TITLE>Departments</TITLE>
            <POST_HTML>DEPT_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
        </CONTAINER>

        <CONTAINER>
            <PRE_HTML>EMP_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
            <TITLE>Employees</TITLE>
            <POST_HTML>EMP_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
        </CONTAINER>
    </CONTAINERS>

    <DEPT_PREHTML>
        <!-- Well-formed HTML. -->
        <DIV id="Layer1" style="position: absolute">
            <IMG src="" width="917"
                 height="104"/>
        </DIV>
    </DEPT_PREHTML>

    <DEPT_POSTHTML>
        <!-- Some more well-formed HTML. -->
    </DEPT_POSTHTML>

    <EMP_PREHTML>
        <!-- Some more well-formed HTML. -->
    </EMP_PREHTML>

    <EMP_POSTHTML>
        <!-- Some more well-formed HTML. -->
    </EMP_POSTHTML>
</FORMS>

I tried to use the complete path /FORMS/DEPT_PREHTML and /FORMS/DEPT_POSTHTML
as values for PRE_HTML and POST_HTML elements, respectively. It still does
not work. The XSL stylesheet looks as shown below:

<xsl:template match="/FORMS/CONTAINERS">
    <xsl:for-each select="CONTAINER">

        <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/PRE_HTML]" />

        <!-- Do some more things here -->

        <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/POST_HTML]" />

    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

I tried using xsl:variable as suggested by another post and that did
not work either. I am not seeing the node containing the well-formed
HTML getting copied to the output.

Thanks again,
-- Sanjay

David Carlisle wrote:

     <xsl:template match="/CONTAINERS">
This only works if CONTAINERS is the document element but  you indicated
I think that your DEPT_POSTHTML elements were outside this.

        <xsl:copy-of select="PRE_HTML"
            <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|text()"/>
        </xsl:copy-of>

you are confusing the syntax for xsl:copy and xsl:copy-f. and also
that select _expression_ starts from the current CONTAINER node, but
PRE_HTML isn't a child of that.

So....

===========================================
<x>
<CONTAINERS>
    <CONTAINER>
        <PRE_HTML>DEPT_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
        <TITLE>Departments</TITLE>
        <POST_HTML>DEPT_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
    </CONTAINER>
    <CONTAINER>
        <PRE_HTML>EMP_PREHTML</PRE_HTML>
        <TITLE>Employees</TITLE>
        <POST_HTML>EMP_POSTHTML</POST_HTML>
    </CONTAINER>
</CONTAINERS>

<DEPT_PREHTML>
    <DIV id="Layer1" style="position: absolute">
        <IMG src="" width="917"
height="104"/>
    </DIV>
</DEPT_PREHTML>

<DEPT_POSTHTML>
     <!-- Some more well formed HTML. -->kkk
</DEPT_POSTHTML>

</x>

===========================================

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0"
                >

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="CONTAINERS">pppp
    <xsl:for-each select="CONTAINER">l

        <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/PRE_HTML]" />

        <!-- Do some more things here -->

        <xsl:copy-of select="//*[name(.)=current()/POST_HTML]" />

    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

===========================================

David
PS you see it is better to ask on the list, than to ask directly:-)

PPS You mail was included twice, once as text and once a HTML, please
don't do that.

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