nutsmuggler wrote:

> Well, honestly I am not really experienced in xml and xsl..
> I use xml for very practical purpouses; I am literary researcher, and
> I was looking for the right way to encode my annotations.

Have you looked at the Text Encoding Initiative (www.tei-c.org). It
provides a DTD/Schema for literary encoding which has become the de
facto standard in the Humanities. It's very large, but its modular
construction means you can generate a subset suitable for your needs.
The advantages are that there is a huge existing user base, some good 
software, lots of support, and pre-written XSLT for formatting which
you can modify to suit. Plus you would be creating XML that conforms
to the standard that the rest of the field is using.

> I guess I used the "for-each" approach because it was the first I
> could find on the online manuals I consulted (www.html.it).
> I knew the existence of the apply-templates strategy, but I could
> never understand fully how it works; as a very-practically-oriented
> xml user I just discarded the strategy I could not understand. I have
> always been using just the value-of command..
> Now, thanks to Lars's example I got some hold on the recursive
> principle behind the xsl:apply-templates command.
> That' more or less how things went

That's very useful, thanks. Clearly we need to improve the visibility
of XSLT documentation.

///Peter
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