Basic again: if condition and processing

Thank you for your help Joerg or just: Dank'schön

But I have another question about XSL processing.

I have two sect1 elements in my article with different language attributes,
depending on an url parameter I want to process the english or german section.

I thought of something like that:

<xsl:template match="sect1">
        
        
       <xsl:if sect1="@lang='eng'">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[(_at_)lang='eng']"/>
       </xsl:if>
        
       <xsl:if sect1="@lang='ger'">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[(_at_)lang='ger']"/>
       </xsl:if>

but then I have to copy nearly the whole xsl content into the second template 
too,
and I know that's not the way to do it, because both sect1 elements(eng,ger) 
are structured in
the same way, only different content, of course.

So my XML looks like thtat:
<sect1 lang="eng">
                  <title></title>
                
                  <para> english bla
                        ...

<sect1 lang="ger">
                  <title></title>
                
                  <para> deutsch bla
                        ...

So depending on my url parameter (e.g. ?lang=ger) I want to process all 
with lang="ger" attribute in my XML file and the same way with lang="eng".

Thanks in advance.
Homer30



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On 30.12.2002 at 12:29 Joerg Pietschmann wrote:

> On Monday 30 December 2002 11:42, "Hubert Holtz"  wrote:
> > I have a simple article with some parameters, and in this paramter I want
> You probably mean "paragraphs" instead of "parameter".
>
> > to put some links, but the final html file puts the link under the text
> and
> > not at the position in the text.
> The paragraph is text mixed with elements. You use pull style
> processing (xsl:for-each). Push style processing is much better
> suited for processing mixed content.
> Declare templates for processing <para> and <ulink>
> elements and use xsl:apply-templates to apply them:
> <xsl:template match="sect1[(_at_)lang='ger']">
>  <table ...
>    <tr>
>      <td>
>        <xsl:apply-templates select="para"/>
>      </td>
>  ...
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="para">
>  <xsl:apply-templates/>
>  <br/><br/>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="ulink">
>  <a href="{(_at_)url}">
>    <xsl:choose>
>      <xsl:when test="count(child::node())=0">
>        <xsl:value-of select="@url"/>
>      </xsl:when>
>      <xsl:otherwise>
>        <xsl:apply-templates/>
>      </xsl:otherwise>
>    </xsl:choose>
>  </a>
> </xsl:template>
>
> The default templates will take care of copying text through.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
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