RE: [xsl] newbie question

["Andrew Welch" <awelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>         but I do not understand. why are the contents of the
> <english_name>,
>         <german_name> and <prey> printed and why is value="" ??
> 
> The first part to this is the concept of "built in template rules"

Actually this is because there is an <xsl:value-of /> on the <eagles>
element - the built in templates will only get fired through an
apply-templates.

When you do a value-of on an element you get the text of all of its
child nodes concatinated together.  Im not sure what you were intending
here so I wont second guess - if you post what you would like the result
of the transform to look like that would be helpful.

cheers
andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dion Houston [mailto:dionh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 September 2002 22:31
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] newbie question
> 
> 
> Hi Markus:
> 
> Welcome to the brave new world of XSLT :)
> 
> 	<xsl:for-each select="/birds/eagles">
> 
> This is actually iterating through each eagles element that is a child
> of the birds element. You probably want: "/birds/eagles/species"
> 		  
> 		<input type="text" name="bla" value="{comment}"/>
> 
> Even if you were sitting on the right node, though, this 
> attribute value
> template (AVT) will get the text content of a child comment _element_
> not attribute.  You probably want value="{@comment}"
> 
> 
>         but I do not understand. why are the contents of the
> <english_name>,
>         <german_name> and <prey> printed and why is value="" ??
> 
> The first part to this is the concept of "built in template rules"
> (please look up in your favorite reference).  The default 
> rule for text
> elements is to display them, you'll probably want to add:
> 
> <xsl:template match="text()"/>
> 
> Which will turn that off. 
> 
> HTH!
> 
> Dion
> 
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