RE: [xsl] Transform XML to XML

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

At 04:11 PM 8/25/2005, you wrote:
> >> That could be because your concept of what's happening internally is
> inaccurate, leading you to mistaken ideas about the way things need to
> be set up so that everything will happen the way you want it.
>
> Uh, well, duh!  :)

Yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to take you to task. (Your style of approach 
made me think I could take off the kid gloves. And besides, you'd already 
figured out for yourself that you needed an identity transform, without 
knowing what to call it. That in itself requires a leap of insight into how 
to approach problems of transformation, which is very good grounds for hope.)

> Of course that's the case.  I do find myself getting frustrated and
> almost angry at it because of how it behaves, but I guess that's my own
> personal shortcoming. :)
>
> Anywho, that's why I joined this list: to try to finally figure it out
> (and to vent every so often. :)

Please do: all venting about XSLT is on-topic (and so are responses as long 
as the topic remains XSLT).

Mainly I wanted to convey the word that your worries are over (well okay I 
exaggerate): here, all the subtleties of XSLT's weird ways are understood, 
appreciated and approved of (mostly) -- and explained not infrequently.

So if the new bits of information -- about the identity transform, the 
built-in default templates and their function (which the identity template 
overrides), and the difference and marvelous complimentarity between 
matching (xsl:template) and selecting (xsl:apply-templates) -- don't all by 
themselves flood your brain with understanding -- again, please feel free 
to post.

Cheers,
Wendell


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