I have a quite stupid question. How can I make sure that my XML mixed content node doesn't get mixed up? I have, say, an XML structure resembling this.
<root>
<book>
<title>Stuff</title>
<description> This book is <i>great</i> if you need to know about stuff.
I suggest <link ref="Things">this one</link> if you need to know
about things. </description>
</book>
[other books]
</root>
I need the final content to look like this
<h1>List of books</h1>
<h2><a name="Stuff"/>Stuff</h2>
<p> This book is <i>great</i> if you need to know about stuff.
I suggest <a href="#Things">this one</a> if you need to know
about things. </p>
But I can't extract the portions of the text node, I always grab the whole thing. I'm using the descendant axis. Any clue what I'm doing wrong?
Here is my xslt:
<xsl:template match="description/*">
<xsl:for-each select="following-sibling::*">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name(.)='link'">
<a href="{@ref}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="name(.)='em'">
<em><xsl:value-of select="."/></em>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise><p><xsl:value-of select="."/></p></xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
Please note that the enclosed XML and resulting html are merely examples, I have to deal with a bigger structure which I'm not enclosing in, for sake of clarity.
<xsl:apply-templates>
is your friend:
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>
<xsl:output method="html" />
<xsl:template match="root">
<h1>List of books</h1>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<!-- a <book> consists of its <title> and <description> -->
<xsl:template match="book">
<xsl:apply-templates select="title" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="description" />
</xsl:template>
<!-- <title> is turned into a <h2> -->
<xsl:template match="title">
<h2>
<a name="{.}"/>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</h2>
</xsl:template>
<!-- <description> is turned into a <p> -->
<xsl:template match="description">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates />
</p>
</xsl:template>
<!-- default rule: copy any node beneath <description> -->
<xsl:template match="description//*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!-- override rule: <link> nodes get special treatment -->
<xsl:template match="description//link">
<a href="#{@ref}">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</a>
</xsl:template>
<!-- default rule: ignore any unspecific text node -->
<xsl:template match="text()" />
<!-- override rule: copy any text node beneath description -->
<xsl:template match="description//text()">
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The following output is generated for your input XML (Note: I piped it through tidy for the sake of readability. Non-relevant white-space was removed in the process):
<h1>List of books</h1>
<h2><a name="Stuff">Stuff</h2>
<p>This book is <i>great</i> if you need to know about stuff. I
suggest <a href="#Things">this one</a> if you need to know about
things.</p>
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