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Re: xslt question



Regarding the question I sent to you directly on the transformation for the 
<img> tag not working, it appears that the XSLT processor I am using does 
different things for
<xsl:copy-of select="node()" />
and <xsl:copy-of select="." />

I am using Apache's Xalan processor.

Madhu

>From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@friday.u-net.com>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>To: "XSL User" <xsltuser@hotmail.com>
>CC: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>Subject: Re: xslt question
>Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:15:17 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
> >I am trying to get the 5th table of the 1st table of the 3rd table ONLY 
>from
> >an HTML document. I've been trying various combinations for a couple of 
>days
> >now and it is frustrating?
>[snip]
> ><xsl:template match="table[3]/table[1]/table[5]">
> ><HR>
> >	<xsl:apply-templates />
> ></HR>
> ></xsl:template>
>
>When you have a step in an XPath and you don't specify an axis name, then
>the step uses the 'child' axis.  This means that your XPath translates as:
>
>a table that is the fifth table that is a direct child of
>   a table that is the first table that is a direct child of
>     a table that is the third table of its parent
>
>Since your input is HTML, I guess that the tables aren't nested as direct
>children of each other, and that instead they are within rows and cells.
>You probably want something like:
>
>   table[3]/tr/td/table[1]/tr/td/table[5]
>
>I hope that helps,
>
>Jeni
>
>
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