RE: [xsl] Finding list items in XHTML

[Chris Loschen <loschen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 06:49 PM 11/12/02, you wrote:
> Chris: perhaps your templates don't match the <p> elements because of a
> namespace? Does your input document have a default namespace? If so, you
> should declare the namespace in your XSLT as well. Otherwise, your template
> (below) should match, it seems to me.

Yes, indeed, that was the problem -- I had a default OEB namespace assigned
in the DTD, and so XSLT wasn't finding the elements which were (invisibly)
attached to that namespace. Thanks very much!

I now have that part of the transformation working great.

> > <xsl:template match="p[starts-with(.,'&#10148; ')]">
> > <li><xsl:apply-templates /></li>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> I had to do something very like this just yesterday, and it worked fine.
>
> Note, though, that for your eBook to be valid, you'll also have to introduce
> a parent <ul> element for these <li> elements. To do this, you need to
> consider the GROUP of paras that start with &#10148; - there's information
> about this in the FAQ.

> Con

Yep, I'm working on this part of the problem now. Thanks for all your help,
everybody!


--Chris

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