Subject: RE: how to <xsl:apply-templates /> for ELEMENT nodes only?
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:56:00 +0100
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You can apply templates to elements only by writing <xsl:apply-templates
select="*"/>. But I don't see what's inelegant about overriding the default
template rule for text nodes.
Michael Kay
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terence Kearns [mailto:terencek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 30 March 2004 07:04
> To: XSL-List
> Subject: how to <xsl:apply-templates /> for ELEMENT nodes only?
>
> At the moment, I have
>
> <!-- lots of imported templates in this XSL file -->
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>UC Policy Database</title>
> <link rel="StyleSheet" type="text/css"
> href="policydb_content.css"/>
> </head>
> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0"
> marginheight="0">
> <xsl:call-template name="header"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="//menu" mode="menu"/> 
>
> <xsl:apply-templates />
> <xsl:call-template name="footer"/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> But in order to stop the text node from being spewed out by
> default, I
> have to explicityly surpress it with
> <xsl:template match="//text()" />
>
> While this works, surely there is a more elegant way. The source XML
> uses an informal schema designed by someone else which mixes
> text with
> elements (document centric schema). I'm halfway through overhauling
> their XSLT templates and I just want all templates matching
> any type of
> element to be applied.
>
>
>
> --
> Terence Kearns
> ph: +61 2 6201 5516
> Enterprise Applications Developer
> Enterprise Systems Support and Development
> Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Services
> University of Canberra, Australia - http://www.canberra.edu.au
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