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Subject: Re: [xsl] nested templates? From: Alex Black <enigma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 11:55:13 -0700 |
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>> The above seems to be illegal, though I can't think of a good reason why.
>
> It is clearly illegal, what would you want it to mean?
> I suspect that xsl:template does not operate the way you imagine.
apparently not.
>> is it possible to construct an xslt stylesheet that is more similar to a
>> "complete" page, i.e. with nested templates:
>
> It is possible to design a "complete page" this is what is sometimes
> called the pull method, in fact if you are doing that, you don't need
> any xsl;template instructions at all, see the XSLT spec for an example
> (or the FAQ for this list).
I've seen that faq and _all_ of the examples are:
xsl:stylesheet
xsl:template
xsl:apply-templates
xsl:template
xsl:template
.. ad infinum.
-- this is the "lots of little bits" method, which is not useful for
production.
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>> (btw, this is not syntactically complete, but you get the idea :)
>
> No, I can't imagine what the idea is! I think you are trying to
> do something like xsl:for-each but with an illegal use of xsl:template.
> It would be clearer if you said what you wanted to happen rather than
> posting some code you know to be wrong and then asking us to guess
> what you want it to do!
I actually did say, quite explicitly:
Is it possible to nest templates, i.e. to create templates for elements, and
nest them within on another, so I can effectively build a complete page,
with some xsl sprinkled in to take care of value-of selection.
I have been unable to find a good example of this syntax structure in XSL.
I _have_ been able to find many, many examples of
template
apply-templates
/template
template
apply-templates
/template
template
apply-templates
/template
where the first is
<html> etc
the second is a master layout:
<div align="center>
<ul>
apply-templates
</ul>
</div>
and the third is an "item":
<li>value-of select</li>
Which is not useful to me.
I would prefer the following:
template
template
<stuff>
/template
apply-templates
/template
which is much more true to the hierarchical structure of XML and indeed all
markup.
If you can provide some good links to complex, real-world examples of XSL
stylesheets, I'd be grateful, because everything I've found is either an
Xpath tutorial or "hello world" kind of stuff. :)
-alex
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