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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: designing an XSL stylesheet for "pidgin" docbook


On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 11:41:32AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i'm following the advice of one of the posters here and designing
> an XSL stylesheet that will allow me to write in what i'm calling
> "pidgin" docbook, with shortcuts for all of the elements i use,
> like <p> for <para>, <em> for <emphasis>, and so on.
> 
>   what i'm not clear on is how to write a template for an
> element that contains mixed content.  this is what markus
> spath posted to help me out:
>  
> > <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
> >    <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" /></xsl:copy>
> > </xsl:template>
> > 
> > <xsl:template match="li">	
> >    <listitem><para><xsl:apply-templates /></para></listitem>
> > </xsl:template>
> 
> obviously, in the case of the "li" element, i want to apply templates
> to all of the content, including just copying the text over untouched.
> is that what that first template definition is specifying?  that
> any non-element content is just copied?

Yes, node() matches element, text, pi, and comments nodes.
All but attribute nodes, which is why you also need @*.

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