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RE: copy-of / value-of

2002-09-02 14:26:34
xsl:value-of converts the selected sub-tree to a string - you will lose all
elements. You don't want this, because your content contains HTML elements
which you want in your output tree.

xsl:copy-of copies a sub-tree, including all elements.

You used <xsl:copy-of select="special"/> which copies the <special> elements
and all descendants, but you only want to copy the content from INSIDE the
<special> elements, NOT the <special> elements themselves. So you should use
<xsl:copy-of select="special/node()"/>, as Jarno suggested. This will copy
every node which is a child of the <special> element, and all their
descendants.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of 
Jan Theofel
Sent: Tuesday, 3 September 2002 02:47
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] copy-of / value-of



Hi,

Jarno(_dot_)Elovirta(_at_)nokia(_dot_)com schrieb:

In my XML for that, I want to be able to add a tag <special> like:

<special>
  Some text here as line 1<br/>
  Some text here as line 2
</special>

I also tried copy-of which is better, but copies also the
XML tags.


You probably want

  <xsl:copy-of select="special/node()" />

And if not, you should show us your stylesheet and wholeish
input and desired output documents.

See also my other mail, here the URLs:
  http://www.etes.de/files/programm.xml
  http://www.etes.de/files/programm-html.xsl


The problem with the copy-of is, that the <xsl:copy-of
select="some/node/special"> will result in

<special>
  Some text here as line 1<br/>
  Some text here as line 2
</special>

What I want to have is instead:

  Some text here as line 1<br/>
  Some text here as line 2

(Without the tags arround.)

(I didn't find this in the docs and the FAQ is not reachable
at the moment.
:-(  )

It's in the specs, believe me.

Ok. But the specs are not easy to understand for a beginner
like me. :-(

Thanks,
Jan

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