Chapter 25: XQuery for XSLT users

Example 25-1. A "pull" stylesheet

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="catalog">
    <ul>
        <xsl:for-each select="product">
          <li>Product #: <xsl:value-of select="number"/></li>
          <li>Product name: <xsl:value-of select="name"/></li>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </ul>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Example 25-2. A "push" stylesheet

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="catalog">
    <ul>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </ul>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="product">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="number">
     <li>Product #: <xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="name">
     <li>Product name: <xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="node()"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Example 25-3. A "push" stylesheet on narrative content

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="p">
    <para>
      <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </para>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="b">
    <Strong><xsl:apply-templates/></Strong>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="i">
     <Italics><xsl:apply-templates/></Italics>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Example 25-4. An attempt at a "pull" stylesheet on narrative content

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="p">
    <para>
        <xsl:for-each select="node()">
          <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="self::text()">
               <xsl:value-of select="."/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="self::b">
              <Strong><xsl:value-of select="."/></Strong>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:when test="self::i">
              <Italics><xsl:value-of select="."/></Italics>
            </xsl:when>
          </xsl:choose>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </para>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Example 25-5. Emulating templates with user-defined functions

declare function local:apply-templates($nodes as node()*) as node()* {
  for $node in $nodes
  return typeswitch ($node)
        case element(p) return local:p-template($node)
        case element(b) return local:b-template($node)
        case element(i) return local:i-template($node)
        case element() return local:apply-templates($node/(@*|node()))
        default return $node
};
declare function local:p-template($node as node()) as node()* {
   <para>{local:apply-templates($node/(@*|node()))}</para>
};
declare function local:b-template($node as node()) as node()* {
   <Strong>{local:apply-templates($node/(@*|node()))}</Strong>
};
declare function local:i-template($node as node()) as node()* {
   <Italics>{local:apply-templates($node/(@*|node()))}</Italics>
};
local:apply-templates(doc("p.xml")/p)