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Markup Utility

The Markup Utility is a utility for finding and changing words and phrases within some text. You can use it to:

Instructions

  1. Download the stylesheet into the same directory as your stylesheet.

  2. Import the markup.xsl stylesheet into your stylesheet:

    <xsl:import href="markup.xsl" />

  3. Call the template 'markup' with two parameters: text being the text to be marked up, and phrases being the phrases to be marked up within it:

    <xsl:call-template name="markup"> <xsl:with-param name="text" select="." /> <xsl:with-param name="phrases" select="/doc/keywords/keyword" /> </xsl:call-template>

  4. Create templates in 'markup' mode that match the keyword nodes and do the marking up. These can use the 'word' parameter to give the actual term that's being marked up:

    <xsl:template match="*" mode="markup"> <xsl:param name="word" /> <a href="{@id}.html"> <xsl:value-of select="$word" /> </a> </xsl:template>

There are a few extra options that you can set as parameters for the 'markup' template, namely:

words-only true true only whole words should be marked up (separated by punctuation) false any matching occurrence should be marked up, whether whole word or not. first-only false true only the first occurence of a word in a piece of text should be marked up false all occurrences of a word in a piece of text should be marked up match-case false true only occurences where the case matches exactly should be marked up false all occurences of the word should be marked up, regardless of case

More Information

A Simple Example How it Works