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Re: apply-templates and XHTML's <p> tag

2003-03-24 11:35:52

"Gan Uesli Starling" <alias(_at_)starling(_dot_)us> wrote in message
news:3E7F4784(_dot_)8030801(_at_)starling(_dot_)us(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)

But when parsing an XHTML <p> tag, it may
have text mish-mashed in and between <b> and <i>
and <span> tags...in no fixed order.

I will lose all the style stuff if I just do...

<xsl:template match="p">
   <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

...as the <b>, <i> and <span> will go bye-bye with
all their text siphoned out from them, yes? I don't
want that, obviously.

Cool would be to split <p> into a sequence of <foo>
tags with the <b> and <i> as attributes for some,
not on others.

Can someone point me at a tutorial or how-to which
illustrates an XSLT-ish method for dealing sequentially
with a mixed bunch of text and tags?


First of all, XSLT deals not with "tags" but with nodes.

It is not clear exactly what you want -- probably you need to copy the
descendents of "p". Your problem is that using

    <xsl:value-of select="."/>

copies not nodes but the string value of the current node.

To copy all nodes that are children of the current node use:

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



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




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