Hi Mike,
I might not have described the problem in the proper
way and I do not have an example handy.
But in short, I have around 50 elements that need to
be renamed and then I have a few nodes whose child
elements need to be renamed but only by adding a
definite prefix. A third requirement asks for string
manipulation of the content of few other elements.
The three sets of elements overlap with each other.
The second requirement can be done with just one
template using XPATH (I hope). And the first and third
requirements might need a template for a specific
element. If the work needs to be assigned to different
resources for integration towards the end, depending
on which template runs last, the other two effects are
nullified in the output tree.
Basically I guess I am taking an object oriented
approach rather than a procedural approach. Is that a
right way to go with XSLs is what I wonder.
Thanks for the response.
--- Mike Brown <mike(_at_)skew(_dot_)org> wrote:
Ram UGroups wrote:
Can anybody please let me know if there is a way
to
write different templates for different
requirements
so that a template can work on already modified
DOM.
To make it more clear, after I change an element
name
during the first pass, if I would like to change
the
content of the element during the second pass, the
second template is working on the source tree
(which
is never modified) and hence the first change is
being
compromised on the output tree. If there is a way
I
can make the second template work on the DOM
modified
by the first template, then I can probably use the
new
element name in the 'match' variable of the second
template.
Why do you need two passes?
The way you described your problem, it sounds like
an ordinary XSLT task. When
you create the new element, create its content at
the same time.
Please post an example of the original XML (the
source tree), and an example
of what output you want.
Mike
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