Re: [xsl] seriously trivial question about processing the root el ement

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Jeni Tennison wrote:

> I'd have a different *stylesheet* to get XSL-FO. The mode names that I
> usually use are based on what the templates in that mode are supposed
> to produce. In this stylesheet, 'html' mode would produce HTML, and I
> might have other modes such as 'block', 'inline'.
> 
> In another stylesheet I might have a 'filter' mode that would filter
> the source XML.
> 
> When I wanted to filter-and-create-HTML, I'd create a third stylesheet
> that imported both the *2html and filter stylesheet, and had a
> template matching the root node that would look like:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:variable name="filtered">
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="doc" mode="filter" />
>   </xsl:variable>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="exsl:node-set($filtered)/*"
>                        mode="html" />
> </xsl:template>

ah, that's clever.  to be filed away in my "clever tricks"
folder.  thanks.

rday


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