Re: [xsl] Moded Templates

[S Woodside <sbwoodside@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 04:22  PM, Lopez, William wrote:

> <MaintFunction>
>  <Element1/>
>  <Element2/>
>  <Collection1>
>    <Collection1ChildCollection>
>      <AnotherElement>
>        <AnotherCollection>
>           <..Element>
>             <..Collection>
>                ...
>             </..Collection>
>           </..Element>
>        </AnotherCollection>
>      </AnotherElement>
>    </Collection1ChildCollection>
>  </Collection1>
> </MaintFunction>
>
> Some of these elements are optional or will be empty but the object
> structure is consistent (if that makes any sense) and some of the 
> elements
> will always need to be transformed into html. I was hoping that "mode" 
> was
> my ticket. Jeni replied with a solution- I'll have to tinker with it.

I'm not sure if I understand. If an element is optional, that's OK, 
write a template for it and the template will never be called if the 
element isn't present in the XML.

If that doesn't help, please send an instance of the XML and the output 
you are looking for.

simon

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