xml-dev - Re: Style Rules for Mixed Elements

[Matt Sergeant <matt@sergeant.org>]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Charles Cantrell wrote:

> I have a DTD that declares a mixed "Para" element as follows:
> 
> <!ELEMENT Para  (#PCDATA | Menu | GlossItem | Prompt | WindowID | ErrMsg )*>
> 
> An example Para is:
> 
> <Para>Selections from menu <Menu>1,2,1</Menu> are used to control paramite
> tweaking.</Para>
> 
> I would like to write an xsl style rule that would format elements inside
> the Para element with a color, for example, while leaving the "text" of the
> Para element alone.
> 
> Formatting the above example, the character string "1,2,1" might appear in
> green, while the rest of the text in the element might be in black.

Is there anything wrong with this:

<xsl:template match="Para">
	<p>
	<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</p>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="Menu">
	<span style="color: green"><xsl:apply-templates/></span>
</xsl:template>

Or you can be more specific in the Menu case by specifying "Para/Menu"
as the match attribute value.

(this assumes you're using HTML as the output format, but the technique
applies the same if it's FO's).

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