I wrote a xslt for converting xml to html. I have small problem regarding formats.I need to display the references as Ordered List Items in HTML.

Here is the small part of the main xml:


<ref-list>
    <title>References</title>
    <ref id="R1">
        <citation citation-type="web">
            <label>1</label>.#x0009;<collab>ABC</collab>. 2004 West Nile virus activity in the United States.
        </citation>
    </ref>
    <ref id="R2">
        <citation citation-type="web">
            <label>2</label>.#x0009;<collab>ABC</collab>. Addressing emerging infectious disease threats: a prevention strategy for the United States. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services
            </citation>
    </ref>
    <ref id="R3">
        <citation citation-type="web">
            <label>3</label>.#x0009;<collab>ABC</collab>. Preventing emerging infectious disease: a strategy for the 21st century. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services
           </citation>
    </ref>
</ref-list>


   How can i skip the parsing <label>1</label>.#x0009; in the above xml? I can skip the parsing label by using

   <xsl:template match="label"></xsl:template>, but i don't know how to skip .#x0009;. Can somebody help me?

Try

<xsl:template match="text()[.='.#x0009;']"/>

However, if the data is messier than this and you need to test more complex conditions, you may need a different approach.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thank you very much. it did work for me. since it is a large xml i did use like this.

    <xsl:template match="text()[.='.#x0009;']" priority="2"/>
    <xsl:template match="text()" priority="1">
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>

 Is there any way i can add condition .#x0009; comes after label elemnet?

Thanks once again,
pendyala.

Is there any way i can add condition .#x0009; comes after label elemnet?

<xsl:template match="text()[.='.#x0009;']
                     [preceding-sibling::node()[1][self::label]]"/>

Your rule

<xsl:template match="text()" priority="1">
                <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    </xsl:template>

is quite unnecessary. It's what the default template does anyway.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks for your help. i did remove the unnecessary template. Everything is working fine.

pendyalap.