Re: cascading tags

Hi Andreas,

> I would like to transform this file into:
>
> <p>there are two different levels of compliance for XML documents:
> <p>the well-formednessof an XML document</p>
> <p>the validityof an XML document</p>

Where should the closing tag for the first p element go? Your code has
bullet and number generation in. So I think you're actually after:

<p>
  - there are two different levels of compliance for XML documents:
  <p>1. the well-formedness of an XML document</p>
  <p>2. the validity of an XML document</p>
</p>

Actually that isn't valid HTML (you can't have nested p elements), but
you could always substitute the p elements for div elements if you
need to.

> If I use the following transformation codes
>
> <xsl:template match="bulletlist/item">
>   <p><xsl:text>- </xsl:text>
>   <xsl:apply-templates/></p>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="numberedlist/item">
>   <p><xsl:number value="position()" format="1. "/><xsl:value-of
>   select="text()" /></p>
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> I get
>
> <p>- there are two different levels of compliance for XML documents:
>      <p>1. the </p>the well-formedness of an XML document
>      <p>2. the </p>the validity of an XML document</p>

If that's what you get, then you have some extra elements in your
source document, within the numberedlist/item elements, that you
haven't shown us. Something like:

  <item>the <kwd>well-formedness</kwd> of an XML document</item>

When you say <xsl:value-of select="text()" /> then the processor gives
you the value of the *first* text node child of the current (item)
element, which is the 'the ' before the kwd element in the above. When
you apply templates (after the p element that you generate) then you
apply templates to all the children of the current (item) element, so
you get the 'the ' repeated, along with the result of applying
templates to the rest of the content of the item element.

The template that you want for the numberedlist item follows the same
model as the one you have for the bulletlist/item - create a p element
and inside it put the number, followed by the result of applying
templates to the content of the item:

<xsl:template match="numberedlist/item">
  <p>
    <xsl:number value="position()" format="1. " />
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </p>
</xsl:template>

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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