Re: [xsl] Embedded bold,italic,anchors etc.

Methinks you are thinking of XSLT as some sort of procedural language.  It 
is a declarative language - and you don't need to "program" it do do the 
basic built in functionality.
This seems to be a hard thing for my students with a programming background 
to realize.  They feel a compelling need to "program something".
The XSLT processor will process your entire XML document, creating an 
in-memory tree of nodes.  It is a hierarchical tree structure that is 
isomorphic to the structure of your document.  Hence if you have have a 
structure   <para><bold><italic>text</italic></bold></para>, then in the 
resulting tree, the node named para will have a child node named bold, that 
has a child node named italic, that has a child text node.
It then traverses that tree of nodes, in document order, and at each node 
checks to see if you provided a template matching on that node.  If you 
didn't - it executes a default template.
If it does find a match, it executes that template.  If the template has an 
apply-templates in it - it will continue processing all the children of that 
node, applying templates as it goes.  You merely have to provide a template 
for para, bold, italic and anchors - and the processor will trigger the 
correct template at the correct place.  You don't have to call anything - it 
is an automatic part of the XSLT processor.
Cheers...Hugh
CyberSpace Industries 2000 Inc.
Multimedia Promotion
XML Training and Consulting
http://cyberspace-industries-2000.com




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Riley" <craig(_at_)thelifeofriley(_dot_)org>
To: "Martin Honnen" <Martin(_dot_)Honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de>
Cc: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Embedded bold,italic,anchors etc.


> Hi thanks for the reply, I have tried using the templates but the
> problem I had was where to call them from? I don't know how to get the
> replace to work within the body of text so to speak.
>
> For example I have:
>
> <p>some text <italic>some italic text</italic></p>
>
> which could happen in numerous paragraphs within the document.
>
> Whenever I "call" the template the peice of italix text is displayed
> outside of the paragraph text! I don't know how to convert the italic
> tags into <i></i> tags and keep it within the main body of text?
>
> Sorry if this is obvious :(
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Craig
>
>
> Quoting Martin Honnen <Martin(_dot_)Honnen(_at_)gmx(_dot_)de>:
>
> > Craig Riley wrote:
> >
> > > I have created an XSLT style sheet that does everything I need it to
> > > except for handling embedded text. The XML documents I am transforming
> > > contain the usual italic, bold, superscript, plus hyper links that
> > > need converting into html.
> > >
> > > Of course I need them to retain there place in the copy of course.
> > The key to solve that is usually writing templates for the elements you
> > want to process where you make sure the necessary transformation
> > happens and where you use xsl:apply-templates in the body of the
> > template e.g.
> >
> >   <xsl:template match="foo">
> >     <strong>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >     </strong>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> >   <xsl:template match="bar">
> >     <em>
> >       <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >     </em>
> >   </xsl:template>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Martin Honnen
> > http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
> >
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