Moving to XML

Beginning XSL-T (vi) other useful bits

<xsl:template match="section[ @slot='main']">

This template will match only section elements which have an attribute named slot whose value is main

  <p>
    <xsl:call-template name="toc"/>

paste in the output of the named template called toc.

  </p>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="section">
    <xsl:sort select="title"/>

Apply templates in this stylesheet to sections which are children of this section, sorted alphabetically by their title sub-element

  </xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="toc">

This is the named template which was called earlier. Most templates are not named: they are applied automatically if their patterns match an element

  <xsl:for-each select="section">

for-each iterates over matching elements in turn

      <xsl:sort select="title"/>
        <a>
              <xsl:attribute name="href">#<xsl:value-of select="title"/>
                </xsl:attribute>

xsl:attribute allows us to construct the value of an attribute of the enclosing tag

          <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
      </a> |
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

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