Re: [xml] Replacing parts of xml with xsl

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 11:39:22AM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 08:17:51AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 12:06:16PM +0100, Colin Gillespie wrote:
> > > I hopefully have a simple problem.
> >
> >   Hopefully you have checked the existing examples.
> >
> > > I want to use a xsl style sheet to change a part of the xml that is
> > > specified with an xpath expression.
> >
> >   XSLT is not defined to work on a subtree.
>       well ok.  but how about if you just grab the subtree, set it as the root
> element in a new document, and then xslt that?  Then take the result and
> toss is back into the original document.  voila!  xslt on a subtree!

  Well, what about the id() lookup, does it work ? If yes how is it defined ?
It's just one example of many little things which can go wrong with an
half baked approach like that.
  I think not changing the document but applying the stylesheet templates
for that given element and cocllecting the resulting nodeset would be
a more well defined approach.

Daniel

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