Unfortunately it doesn't. When I used exactly the same template with the XML
document I have, it changed every instance of the word into a hyperlink. I
had hoped it would only do it once as well, since it doesn't call the
template again, but alas, it still changes every instance of the word. I
thought it might have something to do with the the match="text()" part, but
I didn't know any other way to get it to pull the word out of the text
without it being in an element of it's own.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cina Zone" <zfyzhangji@xxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 4:22 AM
Subject: Re:  auto-replacing text with hyperlink


i think it would only turn the first instance,just as you wished



> I'd like to have the XSLT automatically turn certain words into a link (a
> glossary definition), but I'm having some problems doing this. I've
managed
> to find a search-and-replace template on the net and I've tailored it to
> turn the specified word into a link. It seems to be working so far,
although
> I'm not sure if this is best way to do it. However, I'd like to have it
turn
> only the *first* instance of the word into a link instead of every
instance
> on the page. Any suggestions of how I can do this?
>
> (I'd love to buy an XSLT book for reference, but I'm afraid my student
> budget doesn't let me afford it, thus, I ask here.)
>
> Here's what I have so far:
>
> ----------
> <xsl:variable name="term" as="xs:string">stratigraphy</xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:template match="text()">
>  <xsl:call-template name="definition">
>  <xsl:with-param name="text" select="."/>
>  <xsl:with-param name="from" select="$term"/>
>  <xsl:with-param name="to">
>  <![CDATA[<a href="glossary.asp?term=]]><xsl:value-of
> select="$term"/><![CDATA[">]]><xsl:value-of
select="$term"/><![CDATA[</a>]]>
>  </xsl:with-param>
>  </xsl:call-template>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template name="definition">
>     <xsl:param name="text"/>
>     <xsl:param name="from"/>
>     <xsl:param name="to"/>
>     <xsl:choose>
>  <xsl:when test="contains($text, $from)">
>  <xsl:variable name="before" select="substring-before($text, $from)"/>
>  <xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($text, $from)"/>
>  <xsl:value-of select="$before"/>
>  <xsl:value-of select="$to" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
> <xsl:value-of select="$after"/>
>       </xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise>
>         <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
>       </xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ---------
>
> Thanks for the help!
> Noelle
>



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