Re: [xsl] Process some elements, but not others...

[Ted Stresen-Reuter <tedmasterweb@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the reply. I'm still new at XSLT so I'm not sure I fully  
understand the concept presented, but I tried it, to the best of my  
ability, and it didn't work. I think it's time to come forth and just  
be honest...

I'm trying to lend a hand on the htdig project (http://www.htdig.org/).  
They have a document called defaults.xml which contains the default  
values for the configuration attributes. I've documented what I'm  
working on here: http://www.tedmasterweb.com/htdig/

I've tried a variety of variations on the procedure you suggest, but it  
just doesn't seem to work, so, I'm reposting the question with a little  
better example...

Sample XML
<HtdigAttributes>
    <attribute name="accents_db" type="string_list" programs="htdig">
	<example>search_algorithm, search_results_header</example>
         <description>
             <p>bla bla bla bla bla bla <strong>bla bla</strong> bla  
bla bla <em>bla</em></p>
             <p>bla bla <ref>bla</ref> bla, bla!</p>
         </description>
    </attribute>
</HtdigAttributes>

Sample XSL
<xsl:output method="xml"
     
doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";
    doctype-public="-//W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" indent="yes"  
encoding="ISO-8859-1" />

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="HtdigAttributes">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="attribute" />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="attribute">
    <!-- we do a bunch of fun transofrmations here -->
    <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
    <xsl:value-of select="@type" />
    <!-- would like to have the value of the description node here, but  
with all HTML elements left in tact and all "ref" elements transformed  
-->
</xsl:template>

Any suggestions on changes that would make your suggestion work in this  
context?

Thanks again!

Ted

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 09:25  PM, Mike Brown wrote:

> Ted Stresen-Reuter wrote:
> > I have an xml document whose elements contain html as in the following
> > example:
> >
> > <myelement>
> >      <p>This is <ref>the</ref> text node</p>
> > </myelement>
> >
> > What I'd like to be able to do is transform just the ref element and
> > copy all the others.
>
> This is more or less in the XSLT 1.0 spec, under Copying.
>
> The "identity transform" described there is a template that has a  
> relatively
> low priority and recursively copies all nodes from the source tree to  
> the
> result. If you supplement that template with another that, by virtue of
> matching with a more specific node test than the other, has a higher  
> priority,
> then you can override the identity transform for certain elements:
>
> <!-- identity transform -->
> <xsl:template match="@*node()">
>   <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/></xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- replace a ref element with its children -->
> <xsl:template match="ref">
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> Also, just FYI, your source tree has a structure like this:
>
> root
>  |
>  |__element 'myelement'
>       |
>       |__text '\n     '
>       |
>       |__element 'p'
>       |    |
>       |    |__text 'This is '
>       |    |
>       |    |__element 'ref'
>       |    |    |
>       |    |    |__text 'the'
>       |    |
>       |    |__text ' text node'
>       |
>       |__text '\n'
>
> ...that is, "This is the text node" is not very accurate; the phrase  
> is split
> among 3 different text nodes, although if you use the templates above,  
> you'll
> end up with one :)
>
> Mike
>
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