Thanks. You're right.
Sometimes I feel like I am in Plato's cave - the truth is up there in the
light. I am below, vaguely viewing and deciphering the shadows that truth
casts on the walls.. Slowly I make my climb up. Lo - am I there yet? Not
quite, but closer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2006 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Re;[xsl] Preseving xhtml tags during a transform
Without T's, there wouldn't be anything to transform!
ah but that's the point. xslt doesn't require tags, and can't tell if
there were any originally.
It takes as input a tree of nodes. That _night_ have come by an xml
parser readng tags in a file, but it might have come by DOM scripting
just generating a tree directly in memory, or it might have come from
parsing a GEDCOM file and reporting sax events or...
Also if you use "tag" to mean "element" you get the wrong answer for
even the siimplest questions:
given
<a href="b">c<br/></a>
how many elements are there
2
what's the content of the element with name a
the text node with string value "c", and the element br
how many tags are there
3
what's the content of the tag with name a
'a href="b"'
David
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