Subject: RE: Unwanted elements in xsl output
From: "Rudi Starcevic" <rudi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:57:33 +1000
|
Hi Jarno,
Thanks,
In my Sam's 24 hours book I can't see a mention of the Built in templates
but after I checked the index of my two new Book's by Jenni I see it clearly.
Thanks for the link too.
Great !
Regards
Rudi.
> Hi,
>
> > <xsl:template match="/">
> > <html>
> > <head><title>Web app. list</title></head>
> > <body>
> > <xsl:for-each select="webapps/website">
> > <table border="1" summary="Web Application Table">
> > <tr>
> > <td>Site Name:</td>
> > <td><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></td>
> > </tr>
> > <xsl:apply-templates/>
>
> Here you ask to process all the child nodes, including the language element
>
> > </table>
> > </xsl:for-each>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="address">
>
> and this will match the address elements
>
> > <tr>
> > <td>URL:</td>
> > <td><xsl:value-of select="."/></td>
> > </tr>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> but you don't have a template to match the language element. Thus,
> the build-in template is used to process it, see
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#built-in-rule>. The result is that a text
> node "PHP" will be added to the result tree, without tr and td
> element wrappers. The HTML DTD doesn't allow PCDATA inside table,
> thus browser error recovery kicks in; Mozilla recovers by
> outputting the PCDATA after the table, IE before.
>
> You can fix your stylesheet by either selecting only the elements
> you want to process in the / template, i.e.
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="address" />
>
> or be adding a template to match the language element and output
> nothing in it.
>
> <xsl:template match="language"/>
>
> It usually/always helps in debugging if you use a command-line XSLT
> processor, or an IDE like Xselerator to see what the output is,
> instead of just looking at the HTML renderation on a browser.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jarno - Razed In Black: Oh My Goth!... aah, the nostalgia
>
> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
|
Cart
