At 2006-03-27 16:41 -0500, Terry Ofner wrote:
I am trying to select w:p nodes based on w:pStyle attribute.
...
The p:Style node is a child of the w:p node
No, it is a descendant, it is not a child in your example.
which I want to select and copy to the result tree. Here is an
example of the XML:
...
<w:p>
<w:pPr>
<w:pStyle w:val="A-Head"/>
</w:pPr>
<w:r>
<w:t>Nouns</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
<w:p>
<w:pPr>
<w:pStyle w:val="NL"/>
</w:pPr>
<w:r>
<w:t>blah blah blah</w:t>
</w:r>
</w:p>
...
<xsl:template match="w:p/w:pPr/w:pStyle[(_at_)w:val = 'NL']">
There you are matching on the descendant of w:p, not on w:p, yet your
first sentence quoted above is that you are trying to select w:p ...
but you don't say what you want done with the w:p that you select.
I know that "w:p/w:pPr/w:pStyle[(_at_)w:val = 'NL']" works to select the
particular attribute.
No, that expression in a select= attribute selects w:pStyle based on
the particular attribute, it does not select the attribute.
For example, when I run the template below, I get repeated <w:pStyle
w:val = "NL" > nodes in the result tree with nothing else.
<xsl:template match="w:p"/>
<xsl:apply templates select="w:pPr/w:pStyle[(_at_)w:val = 'NL']"/>
</xsl:template>
What am I doing wrong?
You don't say what you want to do with the w:p elements you said you
wanted to select.
Guessing what your needs might be, I suspect you want:
<xsl:template match="w:p[w:pPr/w:pStyle/@w:val = 'NL']">
<!--do something here with w:p as current node-->
</xsl:template>
Your issue is that you don't want to walk away from what it is you
want to select ... that means that you add the predicate to what you
want to select, as I did in the above example. A synonymous match
statement would also be:
<xsl:template match="w:p[w:pPr/w:pStyle[(_at_)w:val = 'NL']]">
<!--do something here with w:p as current node-->
</xsl:template>
Notice in my answer to your earlier question that I did the work in
the template that matches the node needed:
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200603/msg00735.html
So the same applies above: match the node you want to work with by
qualifying it with a predicate. Don't use "/" to walk away from the node.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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