On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:48, David B. Bitton wrote:
I have the following XML:
<body>
Subscriber agrees to pay Company the sum of $
<sub name="install" />
, plus tax, if applicable, for the installation (and sale if the System
is sold) of the System as follows: $
<sub name="down_pmt" />
upon signing this Agreement; $
<sub name="pre_wire_pmt" />
upon pre-wiring, if necessary; $
<sub name="final_pmt" />
upon substantial completion of installation.
</body>
I have the following template for the <body> element:
<xsl:template match="body">
<fragment font="Helvetica" fontsize="7">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</fragment>
</xsl:template>
but I don;t know how to handle a <sub> element within <body> if it
occurrs. What do I need to do? BTW, XPath 1.0 :)
Don't use value-of for processing the normal content of elements,
and especially not where there are subelements. Value-of simply
extracts the string value, ignoring all element markup, which is
the opposite of what you want. Instead, use <xsl:apply-templates/>
which means "process the content of this element using any
further templates that apply". Create a template to match "sub"
and put in it whatever is relevant.
But you have a more serious problem, I think: all that extraneous
white-space is going to cause problems if you are producing formatted
output, because you'll have a space after every dollar sign, which
in some circumstances may cause line-breaks to occur in unwanted
locations. Fix the XML so it says:
<body>Subscriber agrees to pay Company the sum of $<sub
name="install"/>, plus tax, if applicable, for the
installation (and sale if the System is sold) of the
System as follows: $<sub name="down_pmt"/> upon signing
this Agreement; $<sub name="pre_wire_pmt"/> upon
pre-wiring, if necessary; $<sub name="final_pmt"/>
upon substantial completion of installation.</body>
or similar.
///Peter
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