Re: [xsl] Recursively link XML blocks

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Costantino:

What about --

<xsl:template match="insert">
   <xsl:apply-templates select="//*[local-name()=current()]"/>
</xsl:template>

Won't that do it?

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:44 AM 12/20/01, you wrote:


>Hello everybody,
>I am trying (without success, at the moment...) to do the following:
>
>XML document:
>...
><element_A>
>      textA textA textA
>      <insert>element_B</insert>
>      textA textA textA
></element_A>
>
><element_B>
>      textB textB textB
>      <insert>element_C</insert>
>      textB textB textB
></element_B>
>
><element_C>
>      textC textC textC
>      textC textC textC
></element_C>
>....etc.
>
>Desired output:
>      textA textA textA
>      textB textB textB
>      textC textC textC
>      textC textC textC
>      textB textB textB
>      textA textA textA
>
>In other words, I would like to "link" elements to other elements, and 
>compose a
>new document "recursively".
>This is exactly the same behaviour that I may obtain by changing my "content
>architecture", and putting all the text directly in the XSL, and then using
>"xsl:call-template"s to include one block in another.
>But if I do that I have to mix pure text with layout definitions (I want to
>output HTML and FO from the XML) - and therefore I will have to maintain two
>sets of documents.
>Does anybody have a suggestion?
>Thank you very much,


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