Re: replacing nodes during xsl:copy-of

Hi Guys

Thanks for the replies. Not sure why I'm having such a hard time getting my head around this. I couldn't get either of the proposed solutions to work, but it may just be a fundamental misunderstanding.

From a high-level, non-technical, viewpoint, what I need to do is convert the XML to HTML and either during the process, or after replace everything in the<replace> elements with something else. I'm guessing a 2-stage process is not the way to do it.

I'm using a pull approach rather than a push approach to do the transformation as the output is different depending on the nesting level. Each section can have text nodes (that contain HTML tags that I need to preserve). Any node can have a<replace> element in it.

My xsl is basically

<apply-templates select="Chapter">
	<xsl:copy-of select="text">
	<apply-templates select="Section">
		<xsl:copy-of select="text">	
		<apply-templates select="Sub-Section">
			<xsl:copy-of select="text">	
			<apply-templates select="clause">
			<xsl:copy-of select="text">	

You don't want all those select= attributes, just use
<apply-templates/>
or equivalently
<apply-templates select="node()"/>
to let xslt walk the tree in the correct order, otherwise you will get:

If I just use<apply-templates select="replace"> the replaced text is all in the wrong place in the output stream.

So can I use a 2-stage approach: e.g. use identity transform to convert all<replace> elements to required text and then feed this transformed output to my current transforms?

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