Re: the <acronym> tag, time for a title?

I'm pretty good with XSL, you can mail me directly with what you want to do if you'd like. "Philip Olson" <philip@cornado.com> wrote in message news:Pine.BSF.4.10.10407270829470.23762-100000@merlin.pegasi.net... > Hello! > > We use <acronym> but it really has no use currently. As of right now our > setups do as follows: > > XSL: Puts acronym inside <span class="acronym"> > DSSSL: Puts acronym inside <ACRONYM CLASS="acronym"> > > I've been trying to get this working with XSL but am failing, and by > working I mean for example: > > Replace: <acronym>HTML</acronym> > With: <acronym title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</acronym> > > Seems like a simple concept I know. I first started messing around with > glossary tags (with glossentry.show.acronym) but gave up on that. Then, I > found this little gem of a resource: > > http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/replace.html#d7796e115 > > With a version of this I can get XSL to match the <acronym> tags but the > HTML output returns nothing instead of the actual acronym so essentially > I've implemented a template to remove all acronyms! I'm giving up for now > in the hope that someone with XSL knowledge can implement this in a > working fashion. Anyone? I don't think it's worth doing it in DSSSL. > > Regards, > Philip