Re: How to highlight arbitrary elements depending on xsl:par

Jakob writes:

 > I have an xsl stylesheet which I'd like to use for plain display of
 > documents as well as for display of documents containing search
 > hits.  In the latter case I'd like to highlight elements containing
 > a hit, by outputting some basic html of the kind <b
 > style='background-color: gold'> and </b> immediately inside the
 > element.
no doubt you meant to type <span class="highlight"> here :-}

 > I know about the GI of the hit element through the value of an <xsl:param
 > name='matchElement'/>.
 > 
 > What I can't figure out is how to avoid writing <xsl:if> clauses
 > for all the many dozens of elements of the DTD.  Surely, there must
 > be a way to just write on template that fits all?! [Maybe it's just
 > too late.]

Would some mode work do the job? 

 <xsl:template match="*" mode="highlight">
 <xsl:param name="elemName"/>
 <xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="name(.) = $elemName">
   <b><xsl:apply-templates select="."/></b>
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
   <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
 </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:template>

but I am not sure I have guessed enough about the structure of your
stylesheet to see how this can fit in? perhaos if you posted a
skeleton of your existing code it would be clearer.

Sebastian


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