While applying the following to an rdf format. (for example
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="item" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
title:<xsl:value-of select="title" />
link:<xsl:value-of select="link" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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I get (only) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
It seems to me (the documentation says otherwise) that select is not
supported yet in apply-templates because if i remove the select it works
(not as expected though, will talk about that later). Is select not
supported yet?
--------- excerpt from slashdot.rdf
<?xml version="1.0"?><rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns="http://my.netscape.com/rdf/simple/0.9/">
<channel>
<title>Slashdot:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/</link>
<description>News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters</description>
</channel>
<image>
<title>Slashdot</title>
<url>http://slashdot.org/images/slashdotlg.gif</url>
<link>http://slashdot.org</link>
</image>
<item>
<title>World's Biggest Roller Coaster</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/articles/99/07/23/1722251.shtml</link>
</item>
[.... snip.....]
[multiple item ommited ]
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if i apply the stylesheet above, i get
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Slashdot:News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.
http://slashdot.org/
News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters
Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/images/slashdotlg.gif
http://slashdot.org
World's Biggest Roller Coaster
....
....
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Which is kind of strange to me. Why channel and image element are being
rendered???. If want to render item types only, i have 2 choices:
Using select in apply-templates (which doesn't work)
define an empy channel and image template. Which is cumbersome since it is
not practical to define a template for each element type we do not wish to
render. (which kinda defeats one of XML purposes that is to be extensible.
(or perhaps i've misunderstood XSLT completely??
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Is this a correct behaviour?? (it seems to me it is not)
Assume such a file:
----- simple.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<main>
main content
<subElement>subelement content</subElement>
</main>
<main>
main content2
</main>
</root>
----- simple.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="main">
main template:<xsl:value-of select="subElement" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
------ partial result
main template:subelement content
main content
subelement content
..
..
------
why is main content rendered after the main template?? (it seems obvious
that is because of <xsl:apply-templates /> inside the main template, but
wasn't main template only supposed to have access to the elements (and
content) inside main tags (not main tag content which cannot be parent of
itself??))
thanks.
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