Question

Given the XSL template and XML below, here’s the HTML output i’m trying to achieve (more or less):

<p>
foo goes here
  <span class="content"><p>blah blah blah</p><p>blah blah blah</p></span>
bar goes here
  <span class="content">blah blah blah blah blah blah</span> 
</p>

Here is what is actually getting rendered (entire contents of <span.content> missing):

<p>
foo goes here
  <span class="content"></span>
bar goes here
  <span class="content">blah blah blah blah blah blah</span> 
</p>

Here’s my template (snippet):

 <xsl:template match="note[@type='editorial']">
   <span class="content">
     <xsl:apply-templates />
   </span>
 </xsl>
 <xsl:template match="p">
   <p>
     <xsl:apply-templates />
   </p>
 </xsl>

Here’s my xml:

<p>
foo goes here
  <note type="editorial"><p>blah blah blah</p><p>blah blah blah</p></note>
bar goes here
  <note type="editorial">blah blah blah blah blah blah</note> 
</p>

Rendering particular elements is not important. ie. I don’t care whether a <p> or <div> or <span> gets rendered, so long as none of the text elements are lost.
I would like to avoid creating a specific rule to match “p/note/p”, assuming that a <note> element can contain any arbitrary children.

I’m a total noob to xsl, so any additional tips or pointers would be really helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

OK, so I’m just fussing around and here’s the solution i finally came up with.

Nested <p> tags just don’t work. Your browser doesn’t like them, and XSLT doesn’t like them either. So, I switched everything to <divs> and <spans>

Also, I added a couple catch-all templates to the end of my template.

Here’s the final version that’s working well enough for my purposes:

<xsl:template match="note[@type='editorial']">
   <span class="content">
     <xsl:apply-templates />
   </span>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="p">
  <div class="para">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </div>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()">
  <xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:template>

h/t:

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/defaultrule.html

and How can xsl:apply-templates match only templates I have defined?