Yeah its working fine :)
thanks very much for the explanation now, still learning some basic
things/shortcuts which i didnt know before! (e.g. dont have to write
select="*")
thanks again
james
From: David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Reply-To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] template matching
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 16:00:51 GMT
> Please could u explain to me how it works in more detail?
Just this once (since I'm not sure the list's auto-documentation daemon is
actually fully back in working order, although she has been spotted
recently)
> Whats steps would be involved in order to create the note list? (not
really
> sure why 3 template matches are needed for it?)
The code I posted (plus your template for scope, made well formed:-)
does the trick doesn't it?
explaining how it works:
<xsl:template match="scope">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*" />
</xsl:template>
or even just
<xsl:template match="scope">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
is going to process all children of scope, so
<xsl:template match="misc">
<p><xsl:value-of select="." /></p>
</xsl:template>
will do the usual thing and make a p element
we don't want most of the note elements to produce anything (as the
first note element in each bunch is going to generate the whole list) so
have a template that zaps them:
<xsl:template match="note"/>
Now we do want the first of each notes to do something so that's a note
who's immediately preceding element is not a note
<xsl:template match="note[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::note])]">
this has higher priority thatn the simple match="note" so when both
match this template (not the other one) will fire.
Thus template has to make a list and then make the items in it
the items will be made in "note" mode so just apply-templates back to
this node in note mode:
<ul>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="note" select="."/>
</ul>
</xsl:template>
in note mode you should only ever see a note element what you have to do
is make a list item, and then process your following sibling if it is a
note and stop otherwise:
<xsl:template match="note" mode="note">
<li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::note]"
mode="note"/>
</xsl:template>
(you had <lli) there shoudl be ,li) of course.
David
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