Re: [xsl] inline troubles

Subject: Re: [xsl] inline troubles
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:18:19 -0400
Dear Luke,

Use templates.

This is XSLT 101:

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

<xsl:template match="a">
  <fo:inline text-decoration="underline">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </fo:inline>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="d">
  <fo:inline text-decoration="line-through">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </fo:inline>
</xsl:template>

I like to teach beginners never to use xsl:for-each at all unless they have a good reason. Good reasons do not include "I didn't know how to use a template", since to learn XSLT is to learn how to use them. :-)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:12 PM 9/5/2006, you wrote:
I'm having some trouble trying to underline and line-through specific
text from my xml.  My xml is formatted like so:

///XML///

<line number=3>
        This is some regular old text, <a> and now I want this
        underlined </a> and then maybe some more regular old text,
        <d>and this to be line-through</d> and finish up with some
        regular text.
</line>

Here is what I currently have in my xsl:

///XSL///
<xsl: for-each select = "line">
        <xsl:value-of select="./@number>
        <xsl:for-each select = "a">
                <fo:inline text-decoration="underline">
                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                </fo:inline>
        </xsl:for-each>
        <xsl:for-each select = "d">
                <fo:inline text-decoration="line-through">
                        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                </fo:inline>
        </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>

The above xsl however prints the line with both the underline/strike
through section and the non formatted version, giving me repeated lines.
Any ideas on how to properly handle this?

Thanks,
L

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