Re: header/footer: How to to separate html-tag in to different xsl-template rules?

Subject: Re: header/footer: How to to separate html-tag in to different xsl-template rules?
From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:55:26 -0600 (MDT)
> How could I separate headers and footers in my xsl-templates? My problem
> is, that I cannot have a tag like "body" in an <xsl:template>, whithout
> closing it.
> 
> So how to do:
> 
> <xsl:template match="header">
>   <html>
>   <head>
>   </head>
>   <body>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="footer">
>   </body>
>   </html>
>  </xsl:template>

XSLT does not operate on tags. It operates on a tree of nodes that is
implied by the markup. For example,

<html>
  <head>head stuff</head>
  <body>body stuff</body>
</html>

has a node tree like

root
 |___element 'html'
       |___text '\n  '
       |___element 'head'
       |     |___text 'head stuff'
       |___text '\n  '
       |___element 'body'
             |___text 'body stuff'

Furthermore, the markup you are putting in the stylesheet is not a
specification for literal output. It is a specification for how the XSLT
processor should go about creating another node tree, the 'result tree'.
Your HTML output will be *derived* from this result tree after it is
created. Not only that, but the XSLT itself is XML, and must be
well-formed.

So begin thinking in terms of complete elements:

<xsl:template match="doc">
  <html>
    <head>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="doc_head"/>
    </head>
    <body>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="content"/>
    </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

...just as an example.

   - Mike
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