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RE: Unwanted elements in xsl output

2003-07-09 04:11:09
Hi,

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head><title>Web app. list</title></head>
<body>
      <xsl:for-each select="webapps/website">
              <table border="1" summary="Web Application Table">
              <tr>
                      <td>Site Name:</td>
                      <td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td>
              </tr>
              <xsl:apply-templates/>

Here you ask to process all the child nodes, including the language element

              </table>
      </xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="address">

and this will match the address elements

      <tr>
              <td>URL:</td>
              <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
      </tr>
</xsl:template>

but you don't have a template to match the language element. Thus, the build-in 
template is used to process it, see <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#built-in-rule>. 
The result is that a text node "PHP" will be added to the result tree, without 
tr and td element wrappers. The HTML DTD doesn't allow PCDATA inside table, 
thus browser error recovery kicks in; Mozilla recovers by outputting the PCDATA 
after the table, IE before.

You can fix your stylesheet by either selecting only the elements you want to 
process in the / template, i.e. 

  <xsl:apply-templates select="address" />

or be adding a template to match the language element and output nothing in it.

  <xsl:template match="language"/>

It usually/always helps in debugging if you use a command-line XSLT processor, 
or an IDE like Xselerator to see what the output is, instead of just looking at 
the HTML renderation on a browser.

Cheers,

Jarno - Razed In Black: Oh My Goth!... aah, the nostalgia

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