The XSLT Paradigm David J. Birnbaum, Martin Holmes Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanities, DHSI, 04-08 June 2012 Women Writers Project (via website)
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How XSLT thinks of XML
Nuts and bolts of an XSLT stylesheet xsl:stylesheet xsl:output xsl:template xsl:apply-templates Creating the XHTML output framework
xsl:stylesheet ]]>

Wrapper element that contains the entire stylesheet

Always required

Required if the output is XHTML

Optional, but useful when transforming TEI input documents Tells the stylesheet to assume input is in the TEI namespace unless specified otherwise

Required
xsl:output ]]>

Empty element; describes output formatting

May be xhtml, xml, text, html (use xhtml instead).

Set to yes to wrap long lines and indent nested elements for ease in reading the output
<xsl:template match="XPath">

Contains instructions to be executed when the template fires

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The match attribute specifies an XPath to which the template will be applied. This examples matches any div element.

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When you encounter a div, create a p. Then process the contents of the div, putting any output of those template rules inside the p.
<xsl:apply-templates select="XPath"/> Empty element. The select attribute identifies the XPath of the nodes to process at this point. What process means is determined by the template rule for the node selected. ]]>

Process all of the head children of the context node.

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Process the first speech (sp) of the first div that is immediately under another div immediately under the body. In Hamlet, this is the first speech of each scene.

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Process all of the children of the context node.
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