Re: modify output document elements

You can put a constructed sub-tree in a variable:

<xsl:variable name="t">
  <table>
    ...
  </table>
</xsl:variable>

and then do further transformations on the content of this variable

<xsl:apply-templates select="$t" mode="post-process"/>

If you're still using the old XSLT 1.0 version, there are restrictions on
using variables this way, which (with most processors) you can get around with
an extension function:

<xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($t)" mode="post-process"/>

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 4 Mar 2020, at 17:49, Kammering, Raimund raimund.kammering@xxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a stylesheet which creates a HTML output document dynamically based
on the incoming XML file. I use some for-each loop to get the processing done
in the right order. My layout causes the stylesheet to look like this:
>
>  <xsl:template name="details_table">
>    <table border="0" cellspacing="0">
>      <tr>
>        <td width="64px">
>          <a href="#" onclick="toggle('{$details_table}')" title="show/hide
details">
>            <img src="show_hide.png"/>
>          </a>
>        </td>
>        <td>
>          Details
>        </td>
>      </tr>
>      <table id="{$details_table}" cellspacing="3" style="display: block">
>        <tr>
>          <td width="64px">
>            <img border="0" src="{$imagedir}/null.gif"/>
>          </td>
>          <th align="left">Start</th>
>          <th align="left">End</th>
>          <th align="left">Duration [h]</th>
>          <th align="left">Type</th>
>          <th align="left">Category</th>
>          <th align="left">Comment</th>
>        </tr>
>
>        <xsl:for-each
select="entry[severity='STATISTICS']/statistics_category">
>          ...
>          <xsl:choose>
>            <xsl:when test=".='Down'">
>              <td width="150" valign="top">
>                <xsl:choose>
>                  <xsl:when test="../Down='not_set'">
>                     <font color="red">not_set</font>
>                  </xsl:when>
>                  <xsl:otherwise>
>                     <xsl:value-of select="../Down"/>
>                  </xsl:otherwise>
>                </xsl:choose>
>              </td>
>            </xsl:when>
>            ...
>        </xsl:for-each>
>      </table>
>    </table>
>  </xsl:template>
>
> Now I would like to modify the style of the details_table depending on the
outcome of the test within the for-each loop. Since the table element has
already been created, I do not know how one could do this without changing the
overall logic. Is there a way to access the elements of the created HTML DOM
tree from within the stylesheet? Or am I hunting in the wrong direction?!
>
> Any ideas/help welcome - greetings,
> Raimund Kammering