Re: [xsl] Duplicate Nodes in XSL and transform them

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

> That's why I thought that replacing the string using the XPath string
> replace would be the best idea, but I didn't know how to process a node
> set as a string and then convert it back to a node set. (Unless there is
> a better way to do it.)

you don't want to serialise, replace, then re-parse (which would take
extension elements) you just need to apply the replacement separately to
each text node. 

Abel has shown an xslt2 solution, if you are using xslt1 then
a small modification of the code I sent earlier:


<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>


<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:param name="n"/>
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates>
      <xsl:with-param name="n" select="$n"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()[.='replaceMe']">
  <xsl:param name="n"/>
  <xsl:text>replaced</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="$n"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="anything">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:variable name="x" select="."/>
    <xsl:for-each select="(//node())[position()&lt;4]">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$x/node()">
      <xsl:with-param name="n" select="position()"/>
    </xsl:apply-templates>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>