RE: [xsl] Copying-Replacing Elements

["Emerson, Matt" <Matt.Emerson@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Wendel,

Thanks for the help.  I think I have things working now.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:39 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Copying-Replacing Elements


Matt,

Your are on the right track. What you need is a "modified identity
transformation", an idiom widely used in XSLT to deal with problems like
yours.

At 05:43 PM 9/1/2005, you wrote:
>The original node would look something like this...
><data>
>         <cell id="8" flag="false">
>                 <name>bob</name>
>                 <member>5</member>
>         </cell>
></data>
>
>The output would like something like this...
><data>
>         <cell id="8" flag="true">
>                 <name>matt</name>
>         </cell>
></data>
><data>
>         <cell id="8" flag="false">
>                 <name>bob</name>
>                 <member>5</member>
>         </cell>
></data>
>
>I'm thinking the xsl would look something like this
><xsl:template name="createNewSiblingMember" match="something that
>returns a single node">
>         <xsl:copy-of select=".">
>                 ...do some kind of transformations...
>         </xsl:copy-of>
>         <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
></xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="data">
   <xsl:copy>
     <!-- the copy instruction copies the element, but not its
          attributes or children -->
     ...what do you want to do? add new stuff?
     change values of attributes or child elements?
     based on what rules?...
   </xsl:copy>
   <!-- the copy-of instruction "deep-copies" the node as is -->
   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template

Check out more in the FAQ at
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/identity.html

Cheers,
Wendell


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