Hi,

I have an XML:

<chapter id="ch01" label="1" prefix="Chapter">
<title>Understanding Assessment</title>
<para>Assessment is a major focal point in education today.</para>
<figure label="1.2" prefix="Figure" float="1" id="ch01fig2" type="fig2">
<title>General Requirements for Assessments</title></figure></chapter>

And I want to generate the text Chapter 1 and Figure 1.2 using prefix and label attribute, like below:

<chapter aid_pstyle="CHAP_NUM" id="ch01" label="1" prefix="Chapter">Chapter 1<title>Understanding Assessment</title>
<para>Assessment is a major focal point in education today.</para>
<figure aid_pstyle="FIG_NUM" label="1.2" prefix="Figure" float="1" id="ch01fig2" type="fig2">Figure 1.2<title>General Requirements for Assessments</title></figure>
</chapter>


My XSLT is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:template match="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="chapter">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="aid_pstyle">CHAP_NUM</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:value-of select="@prefix"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@label"/><xsl:text></xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="figure">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:attribute name="aid_pstyle">FIG_NUM</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:value-of select="@prefix"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@label"/><xsl:text></xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|comment()|processing-instruction()|text()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Using my XSLT, I can able to generate the required text. But I want to add the xml tag <inst>..</inst> around the text.

Is there a way in XSLT to generate the <inst> tag in comman way. That is, whatever the text generated by XSLT should also have <inst> .. </inst> around it.

Thanks,
Krish

Not quite sure what you mean. Does the following not do what you want?

<inst><xsl:value-of select="@prefix"/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="@label"/></inst>

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Yes, that is what I want. But I need this in generalized way.
Because, In XSLT, I can generate text using any level of tag (for ex: chapter, figure, table, sidebar). By using your suggestion, I need to include <inst> in all place where I generate the text.

The reason I am asking is:

I am generating XML file from another XML file with all these text inserted into it. Then this XML file is poured into Pagination software (Indesign). At some point I want to extract XML back from Indesign. At that time I need to remove all text that are generated by XSLT.
If I include <inst> around XSLT generated text, I can easily identify the text and remove it.

Thanks,
Gopal

You could only do this is the stuff you are generating was generic - i.e if you could wrap the text you are generating in a template and call that perhaps.

e.g. In the following example you can call the 'outputText' template from multiple places:

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Thanks samjudson.

I will try this method.