Hi all,
Hopefully someone can assist me in solving a (probably rather basic)
problem related to restricting the execution of an XSLT file to a
specific part of an XML file.
My XML file looks like this (very simplified):
<mss>
<msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>AAAA</title>
</msItem>
</msDesc>
<msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>BBBB</title>
</msItem>
</msDesc>
<msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>CCCC</title>
</msItem>
</msDesc>
</mss>
I have written an XSLT file which transforms my entire XML into a nice
HTML file. I would now like to restrict the XSLT file so that it ONLY
transforms the <msDesc> nodes which have a <title> tag with the value
'AAAA'. So, in simpler terms, I would like to say to my XSL file:
1. Find all <msDesc> nodes which have a <title> tag with the value 'AAAA'.
2. Apply the following <xsl:template> transformations, but only to the
<msDesc> nodes specified above.
3. [And then all my <xsl:template> transformations]
A possible solution to this would be to write a simple XQuery script to
extract the relevant <msDesc> nodes and put them in a separate XML file,
which can then be transformed. That requires a lot of manual labour
(especially since my titles go from AAAA to PPPP...), so I was wondering
whether there is a work-around or short-cut within XSL?
I hope this makes sense. I'm sure there's something obvious I'm missing...
Many thanks in advance,
Mark