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>A more usual case is where you want templates
>that do an identity transform but then have higher priority templates
>for certain special attributes that do something other than copy.
I wish XSLT had provided the identity transform as the default
template instead of the markup-stripping ones.
We find this case so common that I have recently written a program
that takes a single template on the command line and inserts it
into a stylesheet with a low-priority identity template:
lxreplace -q match-expr -t template-body
To make it even simpler for the simple cases, the stylesheet defines
some entities:
<!ENTITY this
"<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select='@*|node()'/></xsl:copy>">
<!ENTITY attrs "<xsl:apply-templates select='@*'/>">
<!ENTITY children "<xsl:apply-templates select='node()'/>">
<!ENTITY text "<xsl:value-of select='.'/>">
Simple examples are wrapping elements:
lxreplace -q 'foo[@bar="unknown"]' -t '<bogus>&this;</bogus>'
renaming elements:
lxreplace -q 'foo' -t '<bar>&attrs;&children;</bar>'
and moving the text content of an element into an attribute:
lxreplace -q 'foo' -t '<foo value="{.}"/>'
-- Richard
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