Assuming your output is HTML, the easiest solution to this is a CSS
stylesheet. However, in XSL, the easiest way to do it is simply to use
apply-templates and literal result elements, thus:
<xsl:template match="section">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<h1 style="font-style: italic"><xsl:apply-templates/></h1>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="paragraph">
<p style="font-style: italic"><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
</xsl:template>
Perhaps I could help more if you told me what you are really trying to do.
In HTML, you can nest elements or apply multiple styles through CSS, so I
guess you are not writing HTML as your output. What is your actual desired
output?
Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
"Schaik, L.B. van" <L_B_van_Schaik(_at_)library(_dot_)leidenuniv(_dot_)nl>
03/18/2005 07:37 AM
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Subject
[xsl] decorator / wrapper design pattern
Hi,
I'm using XSL version 1.0 and am trying to use the decorator design
pattern, but can't get it to work in XSL.
Here is what I try to achieve:
Different types of elements all need to be surrounded by the same text.
For example:
I've XML:
<base>
<section>
<title>the title</title>
<paragraph>some text</paragraph>
<paragraph>more text</paragraph>
</section>
<section>
<title>the title</title>
<paragraph>other text</paragraph>
<paragraph>more other text</paragraph>
<paragraph>and more text</paragraph>
</section>
</base>
Now I want all text in titles and in paragraphs to be italic and in
titles also to be bold.
My first thought was to use call-template like this:
<xsl:template match="title">
<xsl:call-template name="bold">
<xsl:call-template name="italic">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
But this is not the way to do this.
I cannot however figure out or find the solution. The decoration that
must be applied is much more complicated than bold or italic, but that
is besides the point, I think.
Here is my second try, but here is the problem that I cannot nest
decorators, so bold and italic is not possible on the same element:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:call-template name="body"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="section">
<xsl:apply-templates />
<br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<xsl:call-template name="bold" />
<br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="paragraph">
<xsl:call-template name="italic" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="bold">
<b>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</b>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="italic">
<i>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</i>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="body">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Can anybody give me a pointer?
Thanks in advance
Lucas
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