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Hi all,
Hopefully someone can assist me in solving a (probably rather basic) problem related to restricting the execution of an XSLT file to a specific part of an XML file. My XML file looks like this (very simplified): <mss>
<msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>AAAA</title>
</msItem>
</msDesc>
<msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>BBBB</title>
</msItem>
</msDesc>
<msDesc>
<msItem>
<title>CCCC</title>
</msItem>
</msDesc>
</mss>I have written an XSLT file which transforms my entire XML into a nice HTML file. I would now like to restrict the XSLT file so that it ONLY transforms the <msDesc> nodes which have a <title> tag with the value 'AAAA'. So, in simpler terms, I would like to say to my XSL file: 1. Find all <msDesc> nodes which have a <title> tag with the value 'AAAA'. 2. Apply the following <xsl:template> transformations, but only to the <msDesc> nodes specified above. 3. [And then all my <xsl:template> transformations] A possible solution to this would be to write a simple XQuery script to extract the relevant <msDesc> nodes and put them in a separate XML file, which can then be transformed. That requires a lot of manual labour (especially since my titles go from AAAA to PPPP...), so I was wondering whether there is a work-around or short-cut within XSL? I hope this makes sense. I'm sure there's something obvious I'm missing... Many thanks in advance, Mark
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