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Subject: RE: [xsl] Identity transform on node-set loaded with document()
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 09:10:00 +0100
Template rules use a match pattern to identify nodes, and unless you try
really hard to prevent it, they will match nodes in any document. For
example, <xsl:template match="*"> will match any element in any document. So
if you've have written an identity transformation, you can apply it to your
document simply by applying it - <xsl:apply-templates
select="document('abc.xml')/head"/>, for example. 

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Poff [mailto:matt.poff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 02 August 2007 01:27
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Identity transform on node-set loaded with document()
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been away from XSLT a while and am stumbling on how to 
> implement the following:
> 
> My transform imports, using document(), an HTML snippet 
> contain a populated <head></head> tag. I want to copy this 
> into one of several result trees I am outputting  as is 
> *except*  the <title/> tag needs to be populated with a  value.
> 
> Initially I created a named template and sent the loaded 
> node-set to it, then realised I probably needed an identity 
> transform but all of the identity transform examples I've 
> found seem to be set-up to operate on the master document 
> only. What's the best way to carry out this task? 
> Can I do an identity transform with a named template?
> 
> I'm sure there's a fairly simple solution but it's passing me by.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
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