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Looks like you need to close the paren for the not(). Change:
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(name() = 'title']" />
To:
<xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(name() = 'title')]" />
^^^
David
On 05/03/2012 03:02 PM, Joshua Wulf wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion Rob.
>
> When I try this I get:
>
> XSLT-apply-templates: could not compile select expression
> '*[not(name() = 'title']'
>
>
> - Josh
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "rob cavicchio"
> <> To: Sent:
> Friday, May 4, 2012 12:55:19 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] RE: Delete
> child <section> via xsl
>
> Joshua J Wulf [mailto:] wrote:
>
>> I'd like to do the following with an xsl template:
>>
>> If a section or chapter contains an immediate child section with
>> the same title, then delete the child's<section/> and<title/>
>> tags, but not the contents between the child<section>
>> and</section>.
>
>
> I think that you want to do something like the following
> (untested), though you might have to tweak the details. I'm
> guessing that the situation you are thinking of is that you have a
> chapter with only a single section in it. (This code does not
> actually test to make sure that there are no other sections within
> the chapter, but it could be made to do so.)
>
>
> <xsl:template match="section"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when
> test="string(title) = string(../title)"> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="*[not(name() = 'title']" /> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise>
> <!-- NORMAL SECTION PROCESSING --> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
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>
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