I have xsl code which I was hoping could be used to replace one specific tag from an xhtml document and output another xhtml document.
xsl has phenomenal potential in data replacing, but coming from C/C++ background, it looks like a functional language I'm not familiar with.
Here's the link to where I got the
code (thanks goes to the author), but I don't have a strong enough background in xsl to tell what is going on.
xslfile.xsl
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
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xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
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xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
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xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
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exclude-result-prefixes="xhtml xsl xs">
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<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd" indent="yes"/>
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<!-- the identity template -->
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<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
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<xsl:copy>
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<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
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</xsl:copy>
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</xsl:template>
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<!-- template for the head section. Only needed if we want to change, delete or add nodes. In our case we need it to add a link element pointing to an external CSS stylesheet. -->
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<xsl:template match="xhtml:head">
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<xsl:copy>
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<link rel="StyleSheet" href="xhtml_test.css" type="text/css"/>
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<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
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</xsl:copy>
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</xsl:template>
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<!-- template for the body section. Only needed if we want to change, delete or add nodes. In our case we need it to add a div element containing a menu of navigation. -->
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<xsl:template match="xhtml:body">
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<xsl:copy>
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<!-- Where I want the code to find all occurrences of
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<span> </span> within the body and replace it with
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<div> </div> (as an example--maybe with attributes included?) -->
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<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
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</xsl:copy>
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</xsl:template>
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</xsl:stylesheet>
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xslfile.xhtml
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="transform.xsl"?> <!-- To view xml in foxfire -->
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
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<body>
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<span width="20%" id="name"> stuff </div>
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<!-- rest of html goes here -->
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</body>
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</html>
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I know if I could understand how xsl files are parsed I know I could figure out how xsl works, but to me right now, that's a black box. <xsl:template > seems like a function which <xsl:apply-templates > calls, but tell me if I'm wrong on this.
I would like to figure this out without help, but being stuck learning this has been frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
