Re: Processing tag text either side of nested tags

Thanks to everyone who has responded to my query so far (Andrew, Jon,
David and Wendel).

I understand the issue now. This has been an area which has been
causing me confusion for some time and I think collectively you've all
just helped me to the next level of understanding of XSLT. Great work.

Thanks also for the warning about the T word :-)

Regards,
Neil



On 11/04/06, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Neil,
>
> I think the solution to your problem is to match text nodes, but only
> the text nodes you want. (Let the built-in template match the others.)
>
> As in,
>
> <xsl:template match="outer/text()">
>    ... upshift here ...
> </xsl:template>
>
> Since this won't match the text nodes inside the inner, they will be
untouched.
>
> I hope that helps,
> Wendell
>
> At 10:38 AM 4/11/2006, you wrote:
> >I have some XML with text contained either side of a nested tag. I
> >would like to apply a named template to the text parts such that I
> >modify the text but also preserve the nested tags as-is. For example,
> >I have some XML of the form:
> >
> ><outer> hello there <inner name="alpha">beta gamma</inner> goodbye
> >then </outer>
> >
> >...and I need to transform it to the following format:
> >
> ><outer> HELLO THERE <inner name="alpha">beta gamma</inner> GOODBYE
> >THEN </outer>
> >
> >where in this case a named template converts the text to upper case,
> >although ideally the conversion function would be arbitrary.
> >
> >I have made a number of attempts so far at doing this, but without
> >success. For example:
> >
> >     <!-- Identity template -->
> >     <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
> >         <xsl:copy>
> >             <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> >         </xsl:copy>
> >     </xsl:template>
> >
> >     <!-- Outer template -->
> >     <xsl:template match="outer">
> >         <xsl:copy>
> >             <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
> >             <xsl:call-template name="upper">
> >                 <xsl:with-param name="text">
> >                     <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
> >                 </xsl:with-param>
> >             </xsl:call-template>
> >         </xsl:copy>
> >     </xsl:template>
> >
> >     <!-- Convert text to upper case -->
> >     <xsl:template name="upper">
> >         <xsl:param name="text"/>
> >         <xsl:value-of select="translate($text,
> >'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
> >     </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >The above results in:
> >
> ><outer>HELLO THEREBETA GAMMAGOODBYE THEN</outer>
> >
> >I understand why this is producing that, but I just can't figure out
> >how to apply the named template to only the text parts of the <outer>
> >tag, while copying the nested <inner> tag as-is.
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any insight into how to resolve this problem.
>
>
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