Sorry for this question, found my thinking-error, it seems that I'm sometimes a
little bit dumb. :-)
Now this works fine:
-- CODE ---
<xsl:template match="article">
...
<table width="610" height="48" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"
id="sectBackground">
<xsl:apply-templates select="./title[(_at_)lang=$lang]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[(_at_)lang = $lang or
not(@lang)]"/>
</table>
<xsl:apply-templates select="../note[(_at_)lang= $lang]"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- ************SECT1 PROCESSING CONTENT ************** -->
<xsl:template match="article/sect1[(_at_)lang= $lang or not(@lang)]">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
...
---CODE---
I hope you will forgive :-)
Homer30
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On 04.01.2003 at 10:13 cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com wrote:
Yes, it is illegal because you are attempting to do exactly what the
error message is complaining about. You are trying to output ill-formed
XML. the problem is not closing a template inside a table, but lies in
closing a template inside a table which has been opened outside the table,
here is a short illustration:
<xsl:template>
<table>
</xsl:template>
</table>
As you see, the closing tag </xsl:template> does not match the opening tag
<table>, and that's what the Saxon parser is complaining about. You will
have to re-think your design so that the opening and closing tags match.
In other words, you must output well-formed XML.
This topic has been recently been discussed at length in the thread
concering the advisability of using disable-output-escaping (d-o-e) which
you probably have seen. The anti-d-o-e faction (I must count myself among
them) generally attributes this kind of error to a programmer's clinging
to procedural programming pratices (trying to emit XML tags instead of
nodes) rather than embracing the functional or declarative model upon
which XSLT is based. Consider SQL vs. Java. In the former you tell the
database what you want and let the database engine figure out exactly how
to get it. With the latter, you concern yourself with loops and branching
and output, and etc.
XSLT is more along the lines of SQL, than those of Java. I think this is
one of those ideas where one day, a lightbulb suddenly goes on in your
head and you say, "Ohhh, now I get it!" It can be rough sledding until
that happens.
--
Charles Knell
cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email
-----Original Message-----
From: "Hubert Holtz" <Turnhose_alt(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net>
Sent: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 14:53:26 +0100
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] closing a template inside a table, forbidden?
Hy,
is this forbidden ?
-----CODE-----
<xsl:template match="article">
<table>
..
</table>
<!-- ************SECT1 PROCESSING CONTENT ************** -->
<table width="610" height="48" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
border="0" id="sectBackground">
<xsl:apply-templates select="./title[(_at_)lang= $lang]"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="sect1[(_at_)lang = $lang or
not(@lang)]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="article/sect1[(_at_)lang= $lang or
not(@lang)]">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</table>
----CODE----
I get the following error:
The element type "table" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".
description org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in creating
Transform Handler: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The element type "table"
must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".
And if it is forbidden, why?
Thanks.
Steve
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