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Template rules are modules that describe how a particular part of your source XML should be output
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A template rule has three parts:
the opening tag describes which part(s) of your XML document the template should be applied to,
the middle bit describes what should happen once a match is found,
and the closing tag completes the template.
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<python version="2.3">
<keyword>while</keyword>
<keyword>continue</keyword>
<keyword>def</keyword>
<keyword>elif</keyword>
<keyword>except</keyword>
<keyword>from</keyword>
</python>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
extension-element-prefixes="saxon">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1" />
<xsl:strip-space elements="*" />
<xsl:template match="python">
<!-- to result tree as text -->
<xsl:text>Python 2.3 Keywords </xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="keyword" mode="text">
<xsl:sort />
</xsl:apply-templates>
<!-- save as HTML, too -->
<saxon:output href="keywords.html" method="html" indent="yes"
saxon:indent-spaces="1">
<xsl:fallback />
<html>
<body>
<h3>Python 2.3 Keywords</h3>
<ol>
<xsl:apply-templates select="keyword"
mode="html">
<xsl:sort />
</xsl:apply-templates>
</ol>
</body>
</html>
</saxon:output>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="keyword" mode="html">
<li>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</li>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="keyword" mode="text">
<xsl:value-of select="." />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when
test="not((position() mod 5)=0) and not(position()=last())">
<xsl:text>	</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
Python 2.3 Keywords
continue def elif except from
while
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