Show Self-closed element property by xslt - xslt

I want to show the property of tag Page, like this xml:
<format class="Book">BookTitle </format>Test <page number="51" />….... </p>
I have this xslt for convert xml to html
<xsl:template match="format" name="format">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name() = 'format'" >
<xsl:if test ="#class = 'q'">
<xsl:call-template name="q" />
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test ="#class = 'Book'">
<xsl:call-template name="Book" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="Book" name=" Book">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="page" name="page">
<xsl:value-of select="#number" />
</xsl:template>
But, attribute of tag Page is not displayed, because this tag is as child of tag Book
What should I do?

<xsl:template match="Book" name=" Book">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="page" name="page">
<xsl:value-of select="#number" />
</xsl:template>
Change to
<xsl:template match="Book" name=" Book">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="page" name="page">
<xsl:value-of select=" #number"/>
</xsl:template>

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Removing the root element using xslt

I have an xml schema that has a structure like
<Level>
<Level1>...data...</Level1>
<Level2>...data...</Level2>
.
.
.
</Level>
I want to remove the <Level> tag. How am I supposed to do that, with the help of xslt.
The standard answer to any "how do I keep most of my XML the same but tweak some little bits of it" question is "use an identity template and then override it for the specific things you want to change"
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<!-- omit the <?xml?> line in the output, it won't be well-formed anyway -->
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()" /></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
but as Mr Lister points out in the comments, this will leave you with something that is not well formed XML, as it will have more than one document element.
When I apply this stylesheet on the input XML
<Level>
<Level1>...data...</Level1>
<Level2>...data...</Level2>
</Level>
it produces the result
<Level1>...data...</Level1>
<Level2>...data...</Level2>
If you want to store all child elements of the document element in a variable, you can do something like:
<xsl:variable name="myVar" select="/*/*"/>
If, however, you want to the stylesheet to produce a string, this might be a solution:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*">
<!-- We write the opening tag -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('<',local-name())"/>
<!-- Now, all attributes -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*"/>
<!-- Depending on whether we have an empty element or not,
we're adding the content or closing it immediately -->
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="node()">
<!-- Close opening tag -->
<xsl:value-of select="'>'"/>
<!-- Add the content -->
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
<!-- Write closing tag -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat('</',local-name(),'>')"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<!-- Create empty element by closing tag immediately -->
<xsl:value-of select="'/>'"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*">
<!-- Write an attribute -->
<xsl:value-of select="concat(' ',local-name(),'="',.,'"')"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It produces text (and therefore you won't get non-well-formed XML). It's a little over-simplified because it does not handle namespaces, comments, processing instructions and quotes in attributes. If your input XML contains any of these, you'd have to refine the stylesheet.
I have created a new XSLT definition which fulfill my requremtn with the help of your code
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output encoding="utf-8" method="text" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="nl">
<xsl:text/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="tb">
<xsl:text/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<!-- Open the root array -->
<xsl:text>[{</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$nl"/>
<!-- Process all the child nodes of the root -->
<xsl:apply-templates mode="detect" select="*">
<xsl:with-param name="indent" select="$tb"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
<!-- Close the root array -->
<xsl:value-of select="$nl"/>
<xsl:text>}]</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="detect">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="name(preceding-sibling::*[1]) = name(current()) and name(following-sibling::*[1]) != name(current())">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="obj-content" select="."/>
<xsl:text>]</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*[name() != name(current())]) > 0">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="name(preceding-sibling::*[1]) = name(current())">
<xsl:apply-templates mode="obj-content" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="name(following-sibling::*) = name(current())">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="following-sibling::*[1][name() = name(current())]">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
<xsl:text>" : [</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="obj-content" select="."/>
<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="count(./child::*) > 0 or count(#*) > 0">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : [<xsl:apply-templates
mode="obj-content" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*) > 0">], </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="count(./child::*) = 0">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : "<xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*) > 0">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="*" mode="obj-content">
<xsl:text>{</xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="attr" select="#*"/>
<xsl:if test="count(#*) > 0 and (count(child::*) > 0 or text())">, </xsl:if>
<xsl:apply-templates mode="detect" select="./*"/>
<xsl:if test="count(child::*) = 0 and text() and not(#*)">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : "<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="count(child::*) = 0 and text() and #*">
<xsl:text>: "</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="position() < last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="#*" mode="attr">
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="name()"/>" : "<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:text>"</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="position() < last()">,</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="node/#TEXT | text()" name="removeBreaks">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="normalize-space(.)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(contains($pText, '
'))">
<xsl:copy-of select="$pText"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat(substring-before($pText, '
'), ' ')"/>
<xsl:call-template name="removeBreaks">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, '
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Simple XSLT template

There is XML document:
<data>how;many;i;can;tell;you</data>
Need to get XML using XSLT version 1:
<manydata>
<onedata>how</onedata>
<onedata>many</onedata>
<onedata>i</onedata>
<onedata>can</onedata>
<onedata>tell</onedata>
<onedata>you</onedata>
</manydata>
How I can do it?
UPDATE:
Output format must be XML.
This recursive solution is probably one of the shortest possible:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="data">
<manydata><xsl:apply-templates/></manydata>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="tokenize">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="string-length($pText)">
<onedata>
<xsl:value-of select=
"substring-before(concat($pText,';'),';')"/>
</onedata>
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select=
"substring-after($pText,';')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document;
<data>how;many;i;can;tell;you</data>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<manydata>
<onedata>how</onedata>
<onedata>many</onedata>
<onedata>i</onedata>
<onedata>can</onedata>
<onedata>tell</onedata>
<onedata>you</onedata>
</manydata>
<xsl:template match="data">
<manydata>
<!--
empty <manydata/> will be generated,
if <data/> without child text()
-->
<xsl:apply-templates select="text()"/>
</manydata>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="data/text()">
<!-- start point for recursion -->
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize-string">
<xsl:with-param name="separator" select="';'"/>
<xsl:with-param name="string" select="text()"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenize-string">
<xsl:param name="separator"/>
<xsl:param name="string"/>
<xsl:variable name="string-before-separator"
select="substring-before( $string, $separator )"/>
<onedata>
<xsl:choose>
<!-- if $separator presents in $string take first piece -->
<xsl:when test="$string-before-separator">
<xsl:value-of select="$string-before-separator"/>
</xsl:when>
<!-- take whole $string, if no $separator in the $string -->
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$string"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</onedata>
<!-- recursive call, if separator was found -->
<xsl:if test="$string-before-separator">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize-string">
<xsl:with-param name="separator" select="$separator"/>
<xsl:with-param name="string"
select="substring-after( $string, $separator )"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Try this:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="data">
<xsl:element name="manydata">
<xsl:call-template name="splitsemicolons">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="text()" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="splitsemicolons">
<xsl:param name="text" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text,';')">
<xsl:element name="onedata">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,';')" />
</xsl:element>
<xsl:call-template name="splitsemicolons">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,';')" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:element name="onedata">
<xsl:value-of select="$text" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This uses a named template that is called recursively, each time outputting what's before the first ;, and calling itself with everything after the first ;. If there isn't a ;, it just outputs whatever's left as-is.
You can use the XSLT extension library to get the tokenize function. Here is how the final code will look like:
<xsl:template match="/">
<manydata>
<xsl:for-each select="str:tokenize(data, ';')">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</xsl:for-each>
</manydata>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Please note you will have to import the extension library into you XSLT using:
<xsl:import href="path/str.xsl" />
before you use the library functions.

Ambiguous rule match in replacing style= attributes in XHTML via XSLT

This is a followup to this question.
I have several <span> tags in a document with several semicolon separated style attributes. Right now I have 3 specific style attributes I'm looking for to translate into tags. All works well in the example above as long as the style attribute only contains one of the three style attributes. If a span has more, I get an ambiguous rule match.
The three style attributes I'm looking for are font-style:italic, font-weight:600, and text-decoration:underline which should be removed from the style attribute and transformed into <em>, <strong>, and <u>, respectively.
Here's my current XSLT:
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="span[
contains(translate(#style, ' ', ''), 'font-style:italic')
]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(#style, ' font-style')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(#style, 'italic;')"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<em>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</em>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="span[
contains(translate(#style, ' ', ''), 'font-weight:600')
]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(#style, ' font-weight')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(#style, '600;')"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<strong>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</strong>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="span[
contains(translate(#style, ' ', ''), 'text-decoration:underline')
]">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(#style, ' text-decoration')"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(#style, 'underline;')"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<u>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
</u>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
Which will generate the ambiguous rule warning doesn't work correctly on some elements that contain more than one of the listed attributes.
An example of the input:
<span style=" text-decoration: underline; font-weight:600; color:#555555">some text</span>
gets transformed to:
<span style=" font-weight:600; color:#555555"><u>some text</u></span>
when the desired result is:
<span style="color:#555555"><b><u>some text</u></b></span>
How can I fix the ambiguous rule match for this?
Thanks in advance
Update:
If i set priorty on each of the templates to descending values and run the XSLT again on the output of the first XSLT run, everything works as expected. There has to be an easier way than running it through the transformation twice. Any ideas?
As Alejandro and Tomalak suggested, replacing the style attributes with a class attribute for CSS classes is an option, too.
EDIT: Just in case real problem gets hide, I have simplified the stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:s="styles"
exclude-result-prefixes="s msxsl">
<s:s prop="font-style:italic" name="em"/>
<s:s prop="font-weight:600" name="strong"/>
<s:s prop="text-decoration:underline" name="u"/>
<xsl:variable name="vStyles" select="document('')/*/s:s"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="span[#style]">
<xsl:variable name="vrtfProp">
<xsl:call-template name="parser"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="vProp"
select="msxsl:node-set($vrtfProp)/*"/>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*[name()!='style']"/>
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:for-each select="$vProp[not(.=$vStyles/#prop)]">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(.,';')"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:call-template name="generate">
<xsl:with-param
name="pElements"
select="$vStyles[#prop=$vProp]/#name"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="generate">
<xsl:param name="pElements" select="/.."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$pElements">
<xsl:element name="{$pElements[1]}">
<xsl:call-template name="generate">
<xsl:with-param
name="pElements"
select="$pElements[position()>1]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="parser">
<xsl:param name="pString" select="concat(#style,';')"/>
<xsl:if test="contains($pString,';')">
<xsl:variable
name="vProp"
select="substring-before($pString,';')"/>
<prop>
<xsl:value-of
select="concat(
normalize-space(
substring-before($vProp,':')
),
':',
normalize-space(
substring-after($vProp,':')
)
)"/>
</prop>
<xsl:call-template name="parser">
<xsl:with-param
name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,';')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<span style="color:#555555;"><strong><u>some text</u></strong></span>
Note: Simpler parsing with space normalization to match properties in an existencial comparison. Generating content without optimization (selecting no match, selecting match). "Stateful" or "stackful" named template for output nested elements. Either way there are two rules (identity and span with #style overwriting it) and two names templates (parser/tokenizer and generator of nested content)
Original stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:s="styles"
xmlns:t="tokenizer"
exclude-result-prefixes="s t msxsl">
<s:s r="font-style" v="italic" e="em"/>
<s:s r="font-weight" v="600" e="strong"/>
<s:s r="text-decoration" v="underline" e="u"/>
<t:t s=";" n="p"/>
<t:t s=":" n="t"/>
<xsl:variable name="vStyles" select="document('')/*/s:s"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|#*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|#*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="span[#style]">
<xsl:variable name="vrtfStyles">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizer"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*[name()!='style']"/>
<xsl:call-template name="generate">
<xsl:with-param name="pStyles"
select="msxsl:node-set($vrtfStyles)/*"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="generate">
<xsl:param name="pStyles" select="/.."/>
<xsl:param name="pAttributes" select="/.."/>
<xsl:param name="pElements" select="/.."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$pStyles">
<xsl:variable name="vMatch"
select="$vStyles[#r=$pStyles[1]/t[1]]
[#v=$pStyles[1]/t[2]]"/>
<xsl:call-template name="generate">
<xsl:with-param name="pStyles"
select="$pStyles[position()>1]"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pAttributes"
select="$pAttributes|
$pStyles[1][not($vMatch)]"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pElements"
select="$pElements|$vMatch"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$pAttributes">
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:for-each select="$pAttributes">
<xsl:value-of select="concat(t[1],':',t[2],';')"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:call-template name="generate">
<xsl:with-param name="pElements" select="$pElements"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$pElements">
<xsl:element name="{$pElements[1]/#e}">
<xsl:call-template name="generate">
<xsl:with-param name="pElements"
select="$pElements[position()>1]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenizer">
<xsl:param name="pTokenizer" select="document('')/*/t:t"/>
<xsl:param name="pString" select="#style"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not($pTokenizer)">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($pString)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains($pString,$pTokenizer[1]/#s)">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizer">
<xsl:with-param name="pTokenizer" select="$pTokenizer"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-before(
$pString,
$pTokenizer[1]/#s
)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizer">
<xsl:with-param name="pTokenizer" select="$pTokenizer"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after(
$pString,
$pTokenizer[1]/#s
)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:element name="{$pTokenizer[1]/#n}">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizer">
<xsl:with-param name="pTokenizer"
select="$pTokenizer[position()>1]"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Note: Recursion paradise. Nested tokenizer for parsing style properties. "Stateful" template for nested content (and performance matching properties, by the way)
Here is an XSLT 1.0 solution using the str-split-to-words template/function of FXSL:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:ext="http://exslt.org/common"
exclude-result-prefixes="ext"
>
<xsl:import href="strSplit-to-Words.xsl"/>
<xsl:output indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="pStyleReps">
<r s="font-style:italic"><em/></r>
<r s="font-weight:600"><strong/></r>
<r s="text-decoration:underline"><u/></r>
</xsl:param>
<xsl:variable name="vReps" select=
"document('')/*/xsl:param[#name='pStyleReps']/*"/>
<xsl:template match="span">
<xsl:variable name="vrtfStyles">
<xsl:call-template name="str-split-to-words">
<xsl:with-param name="pStr" select="#style"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pDelimiters" select="';'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="vStyles" select=
"ext:node-set($vrtfStyles)/*"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=
"not($vReps/#s[contains(current()/#style, .)])">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<span>
<xsl:copy-of select="#*"/>
<xsl:attribute name="style">
<xsl:for-each select=
"$vStyles[not(translate(.,' ','')=$vReps/#s)]">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:if test="not(position()=last())">;</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:call-template name="styles2markup">
<xsl:with-param name="pStyles" select=
"$vReps/#s
[contains
(translate(current()/#style, ' ', ''),
.
)
]"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</span>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="styles2markup">
<xsl:param name="pResult" select="text()"/>
<xsl:param name="pStyles"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not($pStyles)">
<xsl:copy-of select="$pResult"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:variable name="vrtfnewResult">
<xsl:element name="{name($pStyles[1]/../*)}">
<xsl:copy-of select="$pResult"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="styles2markup">
<xsl:with-param name="pStyles" select=
"$pStyles[position()>1]"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pResult" select=
"ext:node-set($vrtfnewResult)/*"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:
<span style=" text-decoration: underline; font-weight:600; color:#555555">some text</span>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
<span style=" color:#555555">
<u>
<strong>some text</strong>
</u>
</span>

converting into <br/> using XSL 1.0

Given XML of:
<data>
<field>Value 1
Value 2
Value 3
</field>
</data>
I would like to be able to create some HTML to display the values and convert the 
 into <br/>
<html>
<head/>
<body>
<div>Field Values</div>
<div>Value 1<br/>Value 2<br/>Value 3<br/></div>
</body>
</html>
However I can't think of way to do this using XSL version 1.0?
I tried
<xsl:value-of select="field" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
However the text all appears on 1 line.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks
Dave
You can use a recursive template do do the replacement:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<data>
<xsl:call-template name="replaceCharsInString">
<xsl:with-param name="stringIn" select="data/field" />
</xsl:call-template>
</data>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="replaceCharsInString">
<xsl:param name="stringIn"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($stringIn,'
')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($stringIn,'
')"/>
<br />
<xsl:call-template name="replaceCharsInString">
<xsl:with-param name="stringIn"
select="substring-after($stringIn,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$stringIn"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Here is how you can replace 
 with <br/>:
<xsl:template match="data">
<xsl:call-template name="add-br">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="field" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="add-br">
<xsl:param name="text" select="."/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($text, '
')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, '
')"/>
<br/>
<xsl:call-template name="add-br">
<xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Rendering a node sequence as M x N table

#Oded: Sorry to have been poor in my exposition... My input document has a fragment like this:
<recordset name="resId" >
<record n="0">example 1</record>
<record n="1">example 2</record>
<record n="2">example 1</record>
....
<record n="N">example 1</record>
</recordset>
containing an arbitrarily long node sequence. The attribute "n" reports the order of the node in the sequence. I need to arrange as output that sequence in a M (rows) x N (columns) table and I have some trouble doing that. I cannot call a template
<xsl:template match="recordset">
<table>
<xsl:apply-templates select="record"/>
</table>
</xsl:template>
with something like:
<xsl:template match="record">
<xsl:if test="#n mod 3 = 0">
<tr>
</xsl:if>
........
<td><xsl:value-of select"something"></td>
because code is invalid (and I should repeat it at the end of the template in some way)
and I must put some (maybe too much) trust in the presence of the numbered attribute. Someone has a hint? Thanks!
You must ensure that nesting is never broken. Things you want nested in the output must be nested in the XSLT.
<xsl:variable name="perRow" select="3" />
<xsl:template match="recordset">
<table>
<xsl:apply-templates
mode = "tr"
select = "record[position() mod $perRow = 1]"
/>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="record" mode="tr">
<tr>
<xsl:variable name="td" select="
. | following-sibling::record[position() < $perRow]
" />
<xsl:apply-templates mode="td" select="$td" />
<!-- fill up the last row -->
<xsl:if test="count($td) < $perRow">
<xsl:call-template name="filler">
<xsl:with-param name="rest" select="$perRow - count($td)" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</tr>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="record" mode="td">
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</td>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="filler">
<xsl:param name="rest" select="0" />
<xsl:if test="$rest">
<td />
<xsl:call-template name="filler">
<xsl:with-param name="rest" select="$rest - 1" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Using xslt 2.0
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="rows">3</xsl:param>
<xsl:template match="recordset">
<table>
<xsl:for-each-group select="record" group-by="count(preceding-sibling::*) mod $rows ">
<xsl:value-of select="current-grouping-key()"/>
<tr>
<xsl:for-each select="current-group()">
<td>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</td>
</xsl:for-each>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
In XSLT 1.0, using a general n-per-row template.
With the row element name as a parameter, the n-per-row template is not tied to you input or output format.
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="recordset">
<table>
<xsl:call-template name="n-per-row">
<xsl:with-param name="select" select="record" />
<xsl:with-param name="row-size" select="2"/>
<xsl:with-param name="row-element" select="'tr'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</table>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="record">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="n-per-row">
<xsl:param name="select" />
<xsl:param name="row-size" />
<xsl:param name="row-element" />
<xsl:param name="start">
<xsl:text>1</xsl:text>
</xsl:param>
<xsl:variable name="count" select="count($select)" />
<xsl:variable name="last-tmp" select="number($start) + number($row-size)" />
<xsl:variable name="last">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$last-tmp > $count">
<xsl:value-of select="$count"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$last-tmp"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:element name="{$row-element}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="$select[position() <= $last]"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:if test="count($select) > $last">
<xsl:call-template name="n-per-row">
<xsl:with-param name="select" select="$select[position() > $last]"/>
<xsl:with-param name="row-size" select="$row-size"/>
<xsl:with-param name="row-element" select="$row-element"/>
<xsl:with-param name="start" select="$start"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>