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Re: Strange Template Behavior
- From: Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 01:27:27 +0200
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Strange Template Behavior
- References: <01b601c1f7a7$92c4ba90$9d47b9a3@austin.apc.slb.com>
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Because <xsl:value-of select="."/> returns a concatenated string form
all descendant text-nodes. What you want is <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>.
Regards,
Joerg
Faroukh Fekravar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just try to flat the structure of the xml file below:
> (I know there are better ways to do that, but I'm interested in knowing why
> the approach below does not work)
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="D:\finder\dims\mm.xsl"?>
> <project>
> <aa1>
> <aa11>aa11_value</aa11>
> <aa12>aa12_value</aa12>
> <aa13>aa13_value</aa13>
> <aa2>
> <aa21>aa21_value</aa21>
> <aa22>aa22_value</aa22>
> <aa3>
> <aa31>aa31_value</aa31>
> <aa4>
> <aa41>aa41_value</aa41>
> </aa4>
> </aa3>
> </aa2>
> </aa1>
> </project>
>
> by using
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xslo:stylesheet xmlns:xslo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="1.0">
> <xslo:output indent="yes"/>
> <xslo:template match="/project">
> <project>
> <xslo:apply-templates/>
> </project>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="*"/>
> <xslo:template match='text()'/>
> <xslo:template match="aa1">
> <xslo:element name="aa_1">
> <xslo:apply-templates mode="mapping"/>
> </xslo:element>
> <xslo:apply-templates/>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa1/aa11" mode="mapping">
> <xslo:element name="aa_11">
> <xslo:value-of select="."/>
> </xslo:element>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa1/aa12" mode="mapping">
> <xslo:element name="aa_12">
> <xslo:value-of select="."/>
> </xslo:element>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa1/aa13" mode="mapping">
> <xslo:element name="aa_13">
> <xslo:value-of select="."/>
> </xslo:element>
> <xslo:apply-templates/>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa2">
> <xslo:element name="aa_2">
> <xslo:apply-templates mode="mapping1"/>
> </xslo:element>
> <xslo:apply-templates/>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa2/aa21" mode="mapping1">
> <xslo:element name="aa_21">
> <xslo:value-of select="."/>
> </xslo:element>
> <xslo:apply-templates/>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa3">
> <xslo:element name="aa_3">
> <xslo:apply-templates mode="mapping2"/>
> </xslo:element>
> <xslo:apply-templates/>
> </xslo:template>
> <xslo:template match="aa3/aa31" mode="mapping2">
> <xslo:element name="aa_31">
> <xslo:value-of select="."/>
> </xslo:element>
> </xslo:template>
> </xslo:stylesheet>
>
> and I get something like that
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
> <project>
> <aa_1>
> <aa_11>aa11_value</aa_11>
> <aa_12>aa12_value</aa_12>
> <aa_13>aa13_value</aa_13>aa21_valueaa22_valueaa31_valueaa41_value</aa_1>
> <aa_2>
> <aa_21>aa21_value</aa_21>aa22_valueaa31_valueaa41_value</aa_2>
> <aa_3>
> <aa_31>aa31_value</aa_31>aa41_value</aa_3>
> </project>
>
> Why at the end of each element I have all the values of it's descendants?
>
> It should look like that
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
> <project>
> <aa_1>
> <aa_11>aa11_value</aa_11>
> <aa_12>aa12_value</aa_12>
> <aa_13>aa13_value</aa_13>
> </aa_1>
> <aa_2>
> <aa_21>aa21_value</aa_21>
> </aa_2>
> <aa_3>
> <aa_31>aa31_value</aa_31>
> </aa_3>
> </project>
>
> I appreciate any help,
> Thanks,
> Faroukh
>
>
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