Re: [xsl] Conditional extraction of data

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Respectfully, I'd like to suggest you guys are all giving Peter very useful 
information, which is only likely to confuse him, despite (and even 
exacerbated by) the occasional "aha"!

The solution to his problem is in mastering templates and the recursive 
template-based processing model, operating over the tree (not the "tags", 
as David warns). If he understands this, there are a million ways for him 
to solve his problem (and one very simple, elegant and obvious way). If he 
doesn't, he'll try all the other stuff (copy-of, value-of, etc etc) and 
sometimes get what he wants but sometimes not -- never understanding why.

This is only more true of subsequent exercises in the assignment.

Peter, figure out what "apply-templates" does (what does this mean and what 
is it applying templates to?) and everything else will fall into place. 
This is the secret of handling mixed content (elements intermixed 
arbitrarily with text).

Cheers,
Wendell


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