Re: [xsl] Moving elements during identity transformation

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

See this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3632244/move-certain-child-nodes-down-to-a
-new-grandchild-level/3632373#3632373



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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Martynas Jusevicius
<martynas.jusevicius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I'm doing an identity transformation which cleans up, filters and
> moves around elements from my source document.
>
> Let's say there is <ToC> anywhere in the document, and from there it
> has to be moved directly *before* <Index> element, wherever that one
> is.
>
> What I'm doing is this:
>
> B  B  B  B <xsl:template match="Index">
> B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B <xsl:apply-templates select="/ToC"/> <!-- lets just
say this selects ToC -->
> B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B <xsl:copy>
> B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
> B  B  B  B  B  B  B  B </xsl:copy>
> B  B  B  B </xsl:template>
>
> So the <ToC> is now at its new location, but the old one has still to
> be removed:
>
> B  B  B  B <xsl:template match="ToC"/>
>
> Now the problem is, this will also remove the new <ToC>. Since this is
> a identity transformation, I don't want to use <xsl:copy-of>, as some
> of the <ToC> descendants might also need processing.
>
> What do you do in such situation?
> The only thing I can think of is introducing some parameter like $keep
> in the <ToC> template and then pass it from the <Index> template to
> differentiate between the two cases.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martynas
> semantic-web.dk