Re: page-specific footer for chunked output

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * Bob Stayton <obof@fntruvyy.arg> [2005-02-03 23:15:49 -0800]:
>
>> also, this strips out all the formating I have in the subtitle.
>> e.g., "<subtitle>foo <emphasis>bar</emphasis> baz</subtitle>"
>> is printed by
>>
>>  <xsl:if test="//bookinfo"><div class="bookinfo">
>>    <hr width="100%"/><table width="100%">
>>     <th><td align="left"><xsl:value-of select="//bookinfo/subtitle"/></td>
>>      <td align="right"><xsl:value-of select="//bookinfo/date"/></td></th>
>>  </table></div></xsl:if>
>>
>> as "<td>foo bar baz</td>" and not "<td>foo <em>bar</em> baz</td>"
>> why?
>
> That's because <xsl:value-of> will return the string value of a node, which
> means just the text.  You want to apply-templates instead, so the <emphasis>
> is processed by its template too. Just replace:
> <xsl:value-of select="/book/bookinfo/subtitle"/>
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="/book/bookinfo/subtitle"/>

oops:

No template matches subtitle in bookinfo.
No template matches date in bookinfo.


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