Probably you think that the following applies the appropriate templates
to ***all*** of the set of the a "chapter" node and its descendents,
the string value of which contains the value of $query?

>     <xsl:template match="/">
>       <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,$query)]"/>
>     </xsl:template>

This is wrong. The above code will apply a template only to every
"chapter" node, the text of which contains that of $query -- not to any
descendent of a "chapter", even if the descendent contains the text of
$query.

At first it may seem that a "chapter" will be selected if one of its
descendents contains $query -- this may not be the case. A "chapter"
may be selected even if none of its descendents (including its own
children text nodes) contains $query. This will be the case, when
$query is "made up" by the concatenation of the text of several
descendents.

It seems to me that the code above does not express at all what you
wanted.


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL




"Marko Petersen" <lg002237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5.1.1.6.0.20021210194812.00bb66f0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to pass some words into my XSL file which should be used
> to build an XPath query in xsl:apply-templates. For an example, the
following
> works, but only for one word:
> 
>     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>     <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>      xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"  
> 
>     <xsl:param name="query"/>
> 
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>       <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,$query)]"/>
>     </xsl:template>
> 
>     <xsl:template match="chapter | section">
>       <table>
>         <tr>
>           <td>&#160;</td>
>           <td>Found <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
>             <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="section[contains(descendant-or-self::*, $query)]"/>
>           </td>
>         </tr>
>       </table>
>     </xsl:template>
> 
>     </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I don't know how many words will be passed into the XSL file, this
should 
> be flexible.
> For example, If $query has the value "word1 word2", the only chapters
and 
> sections that
> should be selected by apply-templates are those which contain word1
or 
> word2, I think
> in this case need I something like:
> 
>       <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word1') or
>                                                             
contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word2')]"/>
> 
> I tried to pass the whole string used by "select" as parameter, but
it does 
> not work.
> 
> Another thing is that I also have words that should be excluded and
that I 
> would like
> to pass a value into the XSL file that should define if it is an AND
or an 
> OR query to
> build something like:
> 
>       <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="chapter[contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word1') and
>                                                             
contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word2') 
> and
>                                                             
not(contains(descendant-or-self::*,'word3'))]"/>
> 
> Has anyone an idea how to do something like this? Or is it a better 
> solution to do this
> with Java DOM?
> 
> Thanks for help and greetings,
> 
> Marko
> 
> 
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