Hey Trevor,

To add to your XPath arsenal, consider also the XPath 2.0 functions
exists() and empty().

Where you have, for example, not(not(section)), you might wish to
rewrite as not(empty(child::section)) which is indeed the same as
exists(child::section). This might help to expose all the logic.

Additionally, we have operators in XPath 2.0

union - same as | - e.g. (title union section)
except - I mentioned (* except title)
intersect  - works as you would expect --

and also the "is" operation for node identity ...

Mulberry Technologies Inc. Quick Reference to XPath 2.0:
http://mulberrytech.com/quickref/xpath2.pdf

Cheers, Wendell

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:07 PM Trevor Nicholls
trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Well the good news is that the simple test example I just created for you
> did copy the input document, although the subsects attributes were not all
> correctly filled in. While I work on chasing down the programming error that
> must be buried in there somewhere, I still have the problem of why my simple
> example incorrectly sets the attribute.
>
> Adding debug content has shown that my test message is correctly
> constructing the temporary structure, so this problem lies in my tests for
> the type of content.
>
> Given this for $tempstruct:
>
> <section>
>   <title />
>   <section />
>   <section />
> </section>
>
> the attribute should be "all"
>
> Given this:
>
> <section>
>   <title />
>   <para />
>   <table />
>   <para />
>   <img />
> </section>
>
> the attribute should be "none"
>
> and given this:
>
> <section>
>   <title>
>   <section />
>   <section />
>   <para />
>   <section />
> </section>
>
> the attribute should be "mixed"
>
> The process I am using to try to get this result is ($tempstruct is passed
> in as the parameter "top"):
>
> <xsl:template name="testsections">
>   <xsl:param name="top" />
>   <xsl:for-each select="$top/*">
>     <xsl:choose>
>       <xsl:when test="not(section)"><xsl:text>none</xsl:text></xsl:when>
>       <xsl:when test="not(not(section) and
> not(title))"><xsl:text>all</xsl:text></xsl:when>
>       <xsl:otherwise><xsl:text>mixed</xsl:text></xsl:otherwise>
>     </xsl:choose>
>   </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> This template correctly identifies the all and none options, but returns
> "all" instead of "mixed" for the last example.
>
> Tested on my full document (which has several hundred sections) I can see
> that all the "all" sections and all the "none" sections are correct, and all
> the "mixed" sections are erroneously reported as "all".
>
> I thought the test "not(not(section) and not(title))" would be true for all
> elements that had only title and section children. Evidently that's not
> true.
>
> I tried the test "child::*[not(self::title)][not(self::section)]" as an
> alternative, but that performed even worse.
>
> I've missed some subtlety in evaluating presence and absence of specific
> child elements, and it's probably in an FAQ somewhere, but if it is I missed
> it.
>
> cheers
> T
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, 16 March 2020 0:53
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  template matching with modes, not seeing what I expect
>
> Am 15.03.2020 um 11:04 schrieb Trevor Nicholls trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > I'm testing a simple stylesheet which implements a suggestion made in
> > reply to my previous approach, i.e. that I could process the output of
> > a document into a variable to test. When the stylesheet is just
> > reporting the results, it works just fine, but when I combine it with
> > templates which copy the input document and replace one attribute
> > based on those tests, the input document is not being copied.
>
> > But if I run this stylesheet and give it an input file (with no
> > subsects
> > attributes) which contains a parent with multiple sections and mixed
> > content, only the first section is output with the attribute
> > (incorrectly set to "none"), and the rest of the output XML is the
> > result of the mode="check" versions of the templates, i.e. the only
> > output is the initial XML header followed by a copy of the $tempstruct
> > variable built when the context node is the top level element of the
> > input document.. The default templates simply aren't executed.
>
> Can you show us a minimal sample input together with the output you get and
> then one you want?
>
>
> 



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