Transformation of nested HTML span element - html

Question

We are trying to transform an HTML template with placeholders into the final HTML using XSLT.
The (simplified) HTML template looks like:
<p>
<span class="condition" id="v6">Some text here
<span class="placeholder" id="v1" />
</span>
</p>
The transformation should
replace every span element with placeholder class;
hide or show each span element that contains a condition class
The (simplified) XSLT we have is:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
xmlns:local="urn:local"
xmlns:s0="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="xml" version="1.0" />
<!-- Take the HTML template -->
<xsl:template match="#*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="#*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<!--Replace every placeholder in the HTML template with the value from the XML data-->
<xsl:template match="span[#class='placeholder']">
<xsl:variable name="this" select="current()/#id"/>
<xsl:value-of select="'replaced'" />
</xsl:template>
<!-- Handle conditions based on custom logic -->
<xsl:template match="span[#class='condition']">
<xsl:variable name="this" select="current()/#id"/>
<xsl:if test="$this = 'v6'">
<xsl:value-of select="current()" />
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
If the placeholder span is not nested into the condition span, everything works fine. However, in the HTML example above, it doesn't work, the output is:
<p>Some text here</p>
We would like it to be:
<p>
Some text here
replaced
</p>
It seems as if the condition is executed, but the placeholder is not executed or somehow overwritten; so basically, the placeholder span elements are not being replaced.
Does anyone has an explanation for this, and what we are doing wrong?
Thanks!

Answer 1

Meanwhile found a solution:
<!-- Handle conditions based on custom logic -->
<xsl:template match="span[#class='condition']">
<xsl:variable name="this" select="current()/#id"/>
<xsl:if test="$this = 'v6'">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/> <<<<----------------
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Instead of taking the current text, I just re-apply the node.