Re: [xsl] XPATH or 2 templates ?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-11-18 13:21 +0100, Delaney Robin wrote:
> If I template-match on <Concat> then I get the correct text for the 1st part
> and not for the 2nd although it's close
> If I template-match on <Concat/*> then I get the correct text for the 2nd
> part but not for the first !
>
> Why can I not have template match on <Concat> and <Concat/*> within the same
> stylesheet ?

You can, but you haven't asked your stylesheet to do so.  Inside your 
template rule for <Concat> you are not "pushing" the child elements at the 
stylesheet.  This is done with <xsl:apply-templates/>.  Since you are only 
asking the stylesheet to act on <Concat>, that is all that it is doing.

Your fix is to find out where during the building of <Concat> you want the 
children to be processed, and at that point, adding <xsl:apply-templates/> 
in order for the children to be pushed at the stylesheet, thereby 
triggering their templates to add nodes to the result tree.  When the 
children have finished their processing (and whatever children they might 
have, and so on, and so on), then the template for <Concat> will continue 
and finish off building that part of the result tree it is responsible for.

I hope this helps.

.................. Ken


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