Subject: Re: [xsl] Newbie: Embedding styles in XML blocks From: Brook Ellingwood <brook@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:13:49 -0700 |
> From: Arne Claassen <xsl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: 24 Sep 2003 09:23:21 -0700 > To: xsl list <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [xsl] Newbie: Embedding styles in XML blocks > > I'm relatively new to XSL, trying to ween myself of customer HTML > templating solutions. There's a fairly simple issue i've run into a > couple of times, which is embedding simple style controls in a paragraph > of XML data, such as: > > <para>This is an <i>important</i> paragraph</para> Just use "copy-of" instead of "value-of" and your tags will be left as <i></i>. There is no such thing as text styling in the proper XSL fashion -- whatever works best for you in your project is what works. If you did want to give the element in your XSL a name other than the one you want in the HTML output, you could. For example, this is one way to turn your <i>'s into <b>'s. <xsl:template match="p"> <xsl:apply-templates select="./node()"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="i"> <xsl:element name="b"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:element> </xsl:template> The question I always ask is whether I'm being more efficient by using an element I define, or by just putting in some HTML. And efficiency isn't always about streamlined code -- I'm doing a project now where an end user with no HTML experience will be updating content that may have embedded links in the text. In my XML, I used a "link" element with a "url" attribute, because the user understands those terms already. In the code, it would have been simpler to use "a" and "href" but I thought that would increase the likelihood of human error, so I created my own element with clearer terms. Whatever works best for each project... -- Brook XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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