Neil,
I think the solution to your problem is to match text nodes, but only
the text nodes you want. (Let the built-in template match the others.)
As in,
<xsl:template match="outer/text()">
... upshift here ...
</xsl:template>
Since this won't match the text nodes inside the inner, they will be untouched.
I hope that helps,
Wendell
At 10:38 AM 4/11/2006, you wrote:
I have some XML with text contained either side of a nested tag. I
would like to apply a named template to the text parts such that I
modify the text but also preserve the nested tags as-is. For example,
I have some XML of the form:
<outer> hello there <inner name="alpha">beta gamma</inner> goodbye
then </outer>
...and I need to transform it to the following format:
<outer> HELLO THERE <inner name="alpha">beta gamma</inner> GOODBYE
THEN </outer>
where in this case a named template converts the text to upper case,
although ideally the conversion function would be arbitrary.
I have made a number of attempts so far at doing this, but without
success. For example:
<!-- Identity template -->
<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Outer template -->
<xsl:template match="outer">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:call-template name="upper">
<xsl:with-param name="text">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Convert text to upper case -->
<xsl:template name="upper">
<xsl:param name="text"/>
<xsl:value-of select="translate($text,
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')"/>
</xsl:template>
The above results in:
<outer>HELLO THEREBETA GAMMAGOODBYE THEN</outer>
I understand why this is producing that, but I just can't figure out
how to apply the named template to only the text parts of the <outer>
tag, while copying the nested <inner> tag as-is.
Thanks in advance for any insight into how to resolve this problem.
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