Re: [xsl] Re;[xsl] Preseving xhtml tags during a transform

["Tracey Zellmann" <tracey.zellmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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