RE: mixed content styling problem

> I hope someone can assist me with my current situation. I am having
> difficulty styling the emphasis tags within #PCDATA of mixed 
> content. I basically need to be able to apply further templates to a 
> tree fragment which is not in itself a node.

I can't see why you're making this so complicated, unless there's some
aspect of the problem I've missed completely!

> <!-- Add italics to appropriate areas of the document  -->
> 
>   <xsl:template match="E1">
>       <xsl:call-template name="inline.italic"/>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
>   <xsl:template name="inline.italic">
>     <xsl:param name="content">
>       <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     </xsl:param>
>     <I><xsl:copy-of select="$content"/></I>
>   </xsl:template>

So far that seems equivalent to saying

<xsl:template match="E1">
   <I><xsl:apply-templates/></I>
</xsl:template>


> 
> 
> <!-- Extract and output publish B information -->
> 
>  <xsl:template match="A">
>     <xsl:call-template name="B.output"/>
>   </xsl:template>
>  
>   <xsl:template name="B.output">
>     <xsl:for-each select="B">
>       <xsl:if test="string(@TYPE)='PUB'">
>         <xsl:variable name="BInfo">
>           <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()[following::C]"/>
>         </xsl:variable>
>         <H2><xsl:copy-of select="$BInfo"/></H2>
>         <!-- <H2><xsl:apply-templates select="$BInfo"/></H2> -->
>       </xsl:if>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </xsl:template>
>
I read your intent as being "copy all B child nodes of the A element
provided they have @TYPE="PUB" and a following C element". You can write
that as

<xsl:template match="A">
   <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()[@TYPE='PUB' and following::C]"/>
</xsl:template>

 
> Result if commented output line is used (from Saxon):
> 
> Error while applying stylehsheet
> At xsl:apply-templates on line 172 of file etc...
> Cannot convert value [** RESULT TREE FRAGMENT **] to a node-set

To apply templates to a result tree fragment you have to convert it to a
node-set. That can't be done in standard XSLT. In Saxon you can do it using
the saxon:node-set() extension function. In MSXML3 the conversion is
implicit (which is probably non-compliant).

Mike Kay


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