Question

I have the following XML code:

<detaileddescription>
   <para>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum aliquam
   interdum erat, <computeroutput>monospace output</computeroutput> eget rhoncus nunc
   porttitor ut. Ut ac metus sed erat rutrum dignissim.
   <parameterlist kind="param">
       <parameteritem>
           <parameternamelist>
               <parametername>item1</parametername>
           </parameternamelist>
           <parameterdescription>
               <para>Param description.</para>
           </parameterdescription>
        </parameteritem>
    </parameterlist>
    <simplesect kind="return">
        <para>
            <computeroutput>ERR</computeroutput> mattis nunc sed velit ultricies
            volutpat. Suspendisse potenti. Vivamus nec ligula blandit urna lobortis   
            tempus.
        </para>
     </simplesect>
     </para>
 </detaileddescription>

I’d like to use xsl:apply-templates only to the text node child of the detaileddescription/para element and the <computeroutput> element that’s inside the text node. In other words, I want to apply-templates only to the following content:

   Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum aliquam
   interdum erat, <computeroutput>monospace output</computeroutput> eget rhoncus nunc
   porttitor ut. Ut ac metus sed erat rutrum dignissim.

Can anyone show me how to do this using XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0?

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly, this should work:

<xsl:apply-templates select="detaileddescription/para/(text()|computeroutput)"/>

of course, depending on the context note. Otherwise, you could also mean the corresponding tempate that will fit only those elements you want:

<xsl:template match="detaileddescription/para/(text()|computeroutput)"/>
  <xsl:copy-of select="." /> 
  <!-- or whatever you want to do with it -->
</xsl:template>

Hope this helps,
R