On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:26, james walker wrote:
if i have a note elemtn that can be placed in side many different elements
within an xml document e.g.
<main>
<sub1><note></note><note></note><note></note></sub1>
<sub2></sub2>
<sub3><note></note></sub3>
<sub4><note></note><note></note><note></note><note></note></sub4>
<sub5></sub5>
</main>
If i wanted to produce a list of notes when the note element appears
<xsl:template match="//note">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</li>
</xsl:template>
That will reproduce all <note> elements no matter where
they are in the document.
If you want to restrict it to notes within those three
parents only, use match="//note[parent::sub1 or
parent::sub2 or parent::sub3]".
If they have some hierarchical meaning where they are, use
something like this to divide them:
<xsl:template match="//note">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="parent::sub1">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</li>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="parent::sub2">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</li>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="parent::sub2">
<li>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</li>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
///Peter
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