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

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's very hard to tell what you're doing wrong if you don't tell us what you
are doing.

You can tell an experienced programmer by the fact that they aren't
frightened of sharing their code, revealing their mistakes, and learning
from the feedback.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Riley [mailto:craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 11 June 2008 13:01
> To: Martin Honnen
> Cc: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.Honnen@xxxxxx>:
> 
> > 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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