RE: Conditional extraction of data

Don't mention the T-word on XSL-list:-)

XSLT does not have access to the tags in your source document and can
not directly generate tags in the result. XSLT just works on trees of
nodes. An XML parser (may) be used to get an input tree from the tags in
a document and the result tree (may) be serialised to a text file as
text containing tags.

I stand corrected - and I take the point.  "Careless words cost lives" as we
used to say in a world I remember, but almost all of you won't.

:)

Cheers

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: 	David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	08 November 2004 15:16
To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re:  Conditional extraction of data



> In other words I want all the text, but convert (in this example) all
> the <b> tags to html <i> tags.

this is just a simple case of the more general transform where you want
to change everything.
In your case you want to transform most elements by junking the element
node and taking its string value

<xsl:template match="anElement/*">
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

then you want to do something different for b so


<xsl:template match="anElement/b" priority="2">
 <i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i>
</xsl:template>



again if you need to recursively apply processing to child elements
you may need to replace xsl:value-of by apply-templates.


> In other words I want all the text, but convert (in this example) all
> the <b> tags to html <i> tags.

Don't mention the T-word on XSL-list:-)

XSLT does not have access to the tags in your source document and can
not directly generate tags in the result. XSLT just works on trees of
nodes. An XML parser (may) be used to get an input tree from the tags in
a document and the result tree (may) be serialised to a text file as
text containing tags.

David

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