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Newbie question--applying templates, selecting paragraphs
- From: Grant-Kathryn at vikingfreight dot com
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 12:04:14 -0700
- Subject: [xsl] Newbie question--applying templates, selecting paragraphs
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Hi all,
I have an xHTML file to which I need to apply a style sheet in order to copy
CERTAIN paragraphs to a new HTML file. Now of course, as a newbie, I didn't
know how to do this. After searching the archives, I found code that copies
ALL paragraphs to the new file. So this is what I have so far:
----------------------xHTML file--------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Testing Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mgronly">
<p>The first paragraph applies only to managers.</p>
</div>
<div class="both">
<p>Paragraph 2 applies to both investigators and
managers.</p>
<p>The third paragraph to both.</p>
</div>
<div class="mgronly">
<p>The last paragraph applies only to managers.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>
--------------------end xHTML file--------------------------------
---------------------- XSL file-----------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<!-- Match the root node -->
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
</xsl:template>
<!-- Handle any node not yet matched -->
<xsl:template match="*|@*|text()|comment()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="*|@*|text()|comment()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
---------------------- XSL file-----------------------------------
----------------------- Result -----------------------------------
The first paragraph applies only to managers.
Paragraph 2 applies to both investigators and managers.
The third paragraph to both.
The last paragraph applies only to managers.
----------------------- Result -----------------------------------
So far so good. But now, when I try to modify the XSL file so only <div>'s
with a certain class are copied out, nothing works. I either get a blank
screen or I get the title text and all the paragraphs strung together with
no breaks between them. I could tell you everything I've tried, but it
would probably be faster if someone could just explain how to modify the xsl
file so it copies out only <div>'s of a certain class.
Just when I think I've understood something in XSL, I try code that seems
like it should work and it doesn't. Very confusing. So I really appreciate
the help.
Kathryn
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