hi!
   below is partial xslt file.This template works perfectly fine but i want to revise it in a way that
pattern of

<xsl:element name="DIV">
         <xsl:attribute name="DEPTH">1</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:element name="HEADER">OBJECTIVE</xsl:element>
              <xsl:element name="P">
                    <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
           </xsl:element>
           </xsl:element>


should not repeate every time.I want to eliminate this repetation. note: string "BACKGROUND,METHODS,..... could be change or added later"
I need suggestion to do this.


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<xsl:template match="xhtml:table/xhtml:tbody/xhtml:tr/xhtml:td">
     <xsl:for-each select="xhtml:p">
       <xsl:variable name="textcontent" select="text()" />
        <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($textcontent,'OBJECTIVE')">
            <xsl:element name="DIV">
         <xsl:attribute name="DEPTH">1</xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:element name="HEADER">OBJECTIVE</xsl:element>
              <xsl:element name="P">
                    <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
           </xsl:element>
           </xsl:element>
          </xsl:when>

           <xsl:when test="contains($textcontent,'BACKGROUND')">
         <xsl:element name="DIV">
         <xsl:attribute name="DEPTH">1</xsl:attribute>
         <xsl:element name="HEADER">BACKGROUND</xsl:element>
         <xsl:element name="P">
         <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
         </xsl:element>
         </xsl:element>
                  </xsl:when>

                 <xsl:when test="contains($textcontent,'METHODS')">
                  <xsl:element name="DIV">
               <xsl:attribute name="DEPTH">1</xsl:attribute>
                 <xsl:element name="HEADER">METHODS</xsl:element>
                  <xsl:element name="P">
                <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
                    </xsl:element>
                     </xsl:element>
                          </xsl:when>

        <xsl:when test="contains($textcontent,'CONCLUSIONS')">
               <xsl:element name="DIV">
             <xsl:attribute name="DEPTH">1</xsl:attribute>
            <xsl:element name="HEADER">CONCLUSIONS</xsl:element>
                 <xsl:element name="P">
                 <xsl:value-of select="text()" />
                  </xsl:element>
                    </xsl:element>
                  </xsl:when>

          <xsl:otherwise></xsl:otherwise>
          </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:for-each>
   </xsl:template>

You could cut it down a fair bit by using literal result elements, and putting the stuff that doesn't vary outside the xsl:choose:
<xsl:for-each select="xhtml:p">
<xsl:variable...>
<DIV DEPTH="1">
  <HEADER>
    <xsl:choose>
     <xsl:when test="contains($textcontent,'OBJECTIVE')"
       >OBJECTIVE</xsl:when>
     <xsl:when test="contains($textcontent,'BACKGROUND')"
       >BACGROUND</xsl:when>

   ....
</DIV>


Beyond that, you can call a named template with parameters but it wouldn't reduce the number of lines of code very much.

Your logic can probably be simplified if one knows more about the source document, for example can a p element contain more than one of these strings, and is the order of testing them important? The following 2.0 code isn't equivalent to yours, but might give the right result depending on the data:

<xsl:for-each select="xhtml:p">
<xsl:variable name="textcontent" select="text()"/>
<DIV DEPTH="1">
  <HEADER>
    <xsl:for-each select="'OBJECTIVE', 'BACKGROUND', 'METHODS'...">
      <xsl:if test="contains($textcontent, .)">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>

   ....
</DIV>


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

Thanks, Michael
      It works ..thanks