Excluding Child for Repurposing with XML and XSLT

07-06-2003

I have an XML document that I want to use to create two HTML versions:
one detailed and one a summary. The detailed output is straight forward
to create, but the summary output that excludes the details is giving me
trouble. The original XML file looks like:
<PROJECTS>
<PROJECT>
This is a brief description.
<DETAILS>
There are a lot of details here that should not always be in the output
html file.
</DETAILS>
There might be some more summary stuff here
</PROJECT>
</PROJECTS>

So the XSLT file to create a summary looks something like:
<HTML>
<xsl:apply-templates select="PROJECT">
</HTML>

<xsl:template match="PROJECT">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

Is there any way to do this without adding a <SUMMARY> child to
<PROJECT>? I would prefer not to do that because I am trying to come up
with a very general approach that would allow for different amounts of
information to appear in the detail.

Thanks.

Eric

07-06-2003

Thanks. That is just what I was looking for.

Eric

Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> The way to exclude only a certain node is the following:
>
> 1. Use the identity rule (template) as the first in the transformation.
>
> 2. Override it with a separate rule (template) for the node that must be
> excluded.
>
> 3. To exclude the node the overriding template must be empty.
>
>
> This gives us the following transformation:
>
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns

sl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
> <xsl

utput omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="@* | node()">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="DETAILS"/>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> When applied on this source.xml:
>
> <PROJECTS>
> <PROJECT>
> This is a brief description.
> <DETAILS>
> There are a lot of details here that should not always be in the output
> html file.
> </DETAILS>
> There might be some more summary stuff here
> </PROJECT>
> <PROJECT>
> 2This is a brief description2.
> <DETAILS>
> 2There are a lot of details here that should not always be in the output
> html file2.
> </DETAILS>
> 2There might be some more summary stuff here2
> </PROJECT>
> </PROJECTS>
>
> The wanted result is produced:
>
> <PROJECTS>
> <PROJECT>
> This is a brief description.
>
> There might be some more summary stuff here
> </PROJECT>
> <PROJECT>
> 2This is a brief description2.
>
> 2There might be some more summary stuff here2
> </PROJECT>
> </PROJECTS>
>
>
>
>
> =====
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
>
>
>
>
> "Eric Weiss" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>>I have an XML document that I want to use to create two HTML versions:
>>one detailed and one a summary. The detailed output is straight forward
>>to create, but the summary output that excludes the details is giving me
>>trouble. The original XML file looks like:
>><PROJECTS>
>><PROJECT>
>>This is a brief description.
>><DETAILS>
>>There are a lot of details here that should not always be in the output
>>html file.
>></DETAILS>
>>There might be some more summary stuff here
>></PROJECT>
>></PROJECTS>
>>
>>So the XSLT file to create a summary looks something like:
>><HTML>
>><xsl:apply-templates select="PROJECT">
>></HTML>
>>
>><xsl:template match="PROJECT">
>> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>></xsl:template>
>>
>>Is there any way to do this without adding a <SUMMARY> child to
>><PROJECT>? I would prefer not to do that because I am trying to come up
>>with a very general approach that would allow for different amounts of
>>information to appear in the detail.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Eric
>>
>
>
>

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