Here's a god-awful way of doing it using some recursion.  Hopefully somebody
else will give you a more elegant solution to the problem:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<xsl:output method="html"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
 <xsl:apply-templates select="testText/text"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="testText/text">
 <xsl:call-template name="formatter"><xsl:with-param
name="current">1</xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="formatter">
 <xsl:param name="current"/>
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="$current &lt; 2">
   <xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="@bold='yes'">
		 <b>
      <xsl:call-template name="formatter"><xsl:with-param
name="current">2</xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template>
    </b>
	  </xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:call-template name="formatter"><xsl:with-param
name="current">2</xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template>
		</xsl:otherwise>
	 </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:when>

  <xsl:when test="$current &lt; 3">
   <xsl:choose>
	  <xsl:when test="@italic='yes'">
		 <i>
      <xsl:call-template name="formatter"><xsl:with-param
name="current">3</xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template>
    </i>
	  </xsl:when>
		<xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:call-template name="formatter"><xsl:with-param
name="current">3</xsl:with-param></xsl:call-template>
		</xsl:otherwise>
	 </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
  <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
 </xsl:otherwise>
 </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of mohamed
Sent:	Tuesday, February 01, 2000 12:36 PM
To:	xsl
Subject:	Fw:

I'm trying to call templates based on attribute names:
?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
?<testText >
???? <text bold="yes">WITH BOLD</text>
???? <text bold="yes" italic="yes"> WITH BOLD AND ITALIC</text>
?</testText>

so I declared templates that are called and?match bold and italics,
?
?<xsl:template match="bold" name="bold">
? <b>
??? <xsl:apply-templates/>
</b>
</xsl:template>
?
<xsl:template match="italics" name="italics">
? <i>
??? <xsl:apply-templates/>
</i>
</xsl:template>
?
and I want to get an output as follows:
<b>WITH BOLD</b>
<b><i>WITH BOLD AND ITALIC</i></b>
?
?but because the
<xsl:apply-templates match=""> and the
<xsl:call-template name=""> don't evaluate expressions (like a variable $att
whose value is bold, or the name() function that returns the name of the
attribute) within the match and the name attributes I couldn't call the
templates!
I don't know how many attributes I'll have (bold, italics, small, .... etc)
so I want to make it flexible enough so adding one more attribute requires
just adding a new template that matches it.
?
any suggestions?!
?
thanks ........
?
----------------------------------
?
Mohamed Abdelrahman


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