Re: [xsl] When to use text()

[Martin Holmes <mholmes@xxxxxxx>]

On 14-03-23 11:26 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> :)
>
> Btw... the tip where you showed me where you recreate elements the way
> you want so you can apply templates to them.
>
> Brilliant. It was very useful last week.

I think it's a common technique. The thing to watch out for is that your 
created nodes have no context -- so for instance if you create a <date> 
node, it won't trigger a template such as:

<xsl:template match="birth/date">

I mostly seem to use this approach when I'm unravelling nested items. 
TEI, for instance, allows <tei:list> inside <tei:p>, but HTML doesn't 
allow <html:ol> or <html:ul> inside <html:p>; ODT presents similar 
challenges. One way to handle this is to pass your <p> elements to a 
template that spits out the bits-between-lists as new <tei:p> elements, 
and the lists between them, in sequence, and then call apply-templates 
on the newly-created elements. Arguably you're changing the conceptual 
structure here by breaking up <p> elements, but sometimes it doesn't 
matter, especially if the output is for some temporary purpose and won't 
be archived.

Cheers,
Martin

> Thanks.
>
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Martin Holmes <mholmes@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 14-03-23 11:05 AM, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 6:01 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On 23/03/2014 17:52, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> > > > > text.
> > > >
> > > > What on earth is that?
> > >
> > >
> > > in this day and age of mobile technology a 5 year old could tell you.
> >
> >
> > It sounds like you are expecting it to return an SMS message. :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Martin