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Define and use template
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File: Data.xml
<poem>
<author>author 1</author>
<date>1912</date>
<title>Song</title>
<stanza>
<line>line 1</line>
<line>line 2</line>
<line>line 3</line>
<line>line 4</line>
</stanza>
<stanza>
<line>line 5</line>
<line>line 6</line>
<line>line 7</line>
<line>line 8</line>
</stanza>
<stanza>
<line>line 9</line>
<line>line 10</line>
<line>line 11</line>
<line>line 12</line>
</stanza>
</poem>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="poem">
<html>
<head>
<title>
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
</title>
</head>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="title" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="author" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="stanza" />
<xsl:apply-templates select="date" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<div align="center">
<h1>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</h1>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="author">
<div align="center">
<h2>
By
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</h2>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="date">
<p>
<i>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
</i>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="stanza">
<p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="line" />
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="line">
<xsl:if test="position() mod 2 = 0">  </xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="." />
<br />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Song</title>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<h1>Song</h1>
</div>
<div align="center">
<h2>
By
author 1
</h2>
</div>
<p>line 1<br> line 2<br>line 3<br> line 4<br></p>
<p>line 5<br> line 6<br>line 7<br> line 8<br></p>
<p>line 9<br> line 10<br>line 11<br> line 12<br></p>
<p><i>1912</i></p>
</body>
</html>
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