Re: [xsl] Moving examples around in output

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jackie,

To collect all the examples (or let's say examplegp elements) in the 
document, you'd use an XPath traversing from the document root.

So in your case,

... At 11:58 AM 3/23/2007, you wrote:

>  <xsl:template match="/field">
>    <fo:block font-size="10pt" text-align="justify">
>             <xsl:apply-templates
>                 select="definition | guidelines"/>
>             <xsl:call-template name="examplesec"/>
>         </fo:block>
>     </xsl:template>
>
> At <examplesec> you have:
>
>  <xsl:template name="examplesec">
> <fo:block text-decoration="underline">
> <xsl:text>Examples</xsl:text>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="examplegp" mode="section"/>
                              ^^^^^^^^^
The context for this select expression is the same as the context 
where the named template examplesec was called. Since "/field" 
(presumably) has no examplesec elements, you're not getting any.

To compensate for this, you want

<xsl:apply-templates select="//examplegp" mode="section"/>

As you may recall, '//examplegp' is short for

/descendant-or-self::node()/child::examplegp

... which traverses from the root of the document. (Starting with the 
'/' makes it an absolute path.)

You could also use "/descendant::examplegp" if you prefer being clear 
to being concise, or an expression such as "./descendant::examplegp" 
or ".//examplegp" to get all the examplegp elements under the field 
element (the context).

Cheers,
Wendell



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