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Hi everyone, I needed to insert a child element while honoring the parent element's content model. The solution took me some time to figure out, so I thought I'd share it here. Consider a <topic> element with the following content model: topic = a?, b?, c?, j?, x?, y?, z?, topic* Given the following input document with no <j> elements: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <topic> <!-- this is a comment --> <a/> <?my-a-pi?> <b/> <y/> <topic> <!-- y --> <y/> </topic> <topic> <!-- c --> <c/> </topic> </topic> I want to insert <j> into every <topic> element. To do this, I apply the following general template that calls an "add-j" moded template on every <topic> element lacking a <j>: <xsl:mode on-no-match="shallow-copy"/> <xsl:template match="topic[not(j)]"> <xsl:variable name="result" as="element()"> <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="add-j"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:apply-templates select="$result"/> </xsl:template> Then I define the "add-j" mode as follows: <!-- add <j> to <topic>, honoring the following content model: topic = a?, b?, c?, j, x?, y?, z?, topic* --> <xsl:template match="topic[not(j)]" mode="add-j"> <xsl:variable name="stuff-before-j" select="(a|b|c)/(.|preceding-sibling::node())" as="node()*"/> <xsl:copy> <xsl:sequence select="@*|$stuff-before-j"/> <j/> <xsl:sequence select="node() except $stuff-before-j"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> The tricky part was obtaining $stuff-before-j, since I wanted a "preceding-or-self::" axis to retain any PIs or comments in their correct place. Once I got that figured out, the rest fell into place. The reason for a separate "add-j" moded template is that in my full stylesheet, I have many templates doing things in many different places, and so I use moded templates and <xsl:apply-templates/> so that everything plays well together. The solution works in either direction (stuff-before or stuff-after). In our case, we are using DITA and the topics at the end of the content model can be other specialized elements, so using the "stuff-before" flavor lets me match any specialized topic that might follow. I have much uglier implementations of content-model-aware insertion in past stylesheets that I'll need to convert to this form. * Chris ----- Chris Papademetrious Tech Writer, Implementation Group (610) 628-9718 home office (570) 460-6078 cell
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