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July 2001 revised March 4th 2001 started XSLT, continued Sebastian Rahtz July 2001
Recap 1

We have met the following XSL basic controls: ]]>

Recap 2

... with the following `extras' id() count() sum() last() ]]>

Other important commands

]]>: make a new element

]]>: add an attribute and value

]]>: make a comment

]]>: make a processing instruction

]]>: copy the current element

]]>: copy a (sub)tree

]]>: put out a message

]]>: construct a lookup table

More functions document: (string) generate-id: (string) position: () name: (node) concat: (string, string) contains: (string, string) substring-before: (string, string) substring-after: (string, string) string-length: (string) translate: (node,string, string) normalize-space: (string)
Example of element/attribute creation

this was a hi element doing a hi now ]]> (test1.xsl)

Copying input to output

Contrast ]]> with ]]> (test2.xsl, test3.xsl)

A useful catchall template

< > </ > ]]> (test4.xsl)

.. but what about attributes?

< =' ' > ....]]> (test5.xsl)

String functions

( protocol) ]]> (test6.xsl)

Using generate-id():

para ,

]]> (test7.xsl)

Using keys

: ]]> (test8.xsl)

The document function

Using document to pull in another file and process it: ]]> (test13.xsl)

Named templates, parameters and variables

]]>: define a named template

]]>: call a named template

]]>: specify a parameter in a template definition

]]>: specify a parameter when calling a template

]]>: define a variable

Variables

Paragraph ]]> (test11.xsl)

Named templates

<xsl:value-of select="$title"/> ]]> (test12.xsl)

Top-level commands

]]>: include a file of XSLT templates, overriding them as needed

]]>: include a file of XSLT templates, but do not override them

]]>: specify output characteristics of this job

Some useful xsl:output attributes

method="xml | html | text"

encoding="string"

omit-xml-declation="yes | no"

doctype-public="string"

doctype-system="string"

indent="yes | no"

An identity transform

]]> (test9.xsl)

A near-identity transform

]]> (test10.xsl)

Generating plain text

]]> (test14.xsl)

XSLT extensions

Although we will not be covering them here, most XSLT processors support various extensions, which will probably be formalized in version 2.0: The ability to create multiple output files from one input The ability to `escape' to another language (eg Java) for special purposes The ability to turn results into input trees for further processing

TEI Stylesheets

A library of stylesheets for transforming TEI documents to either HTML or XSL Formatting Objects, at , with a form-filling interface for the HTML at

TEI Stylesheets (example)

An example of an importing stylesheet: 1 true true ]]>