Re: [xsl] processing different nodes

[Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sony,

> I had posted a similar question before. I am afraid the XML I had
> did not reflect the complexity and was wrong.

Am I right that the only real difference is that the 'def' attribute
points to a pardef element, and it's whether the pardef element has a
list attribute that indicates whether it should be a bulleted list or
not?

The first thing to do is to set up a key so that you can quickly get
from a 'def' attribute value to the relevant pardef element:

<xsl:key name="pardef-by-id" match="pardef" use="id" />

With that key in place, you can get the pardef element associated with
a particular id with:

  key('pardef-by-id', $def)

>From there, you can find out whether it's supposed to be a list with:

  key('pardef-by-id', $def)/@list = 'bullet'

As I discussed last time, given a particular par element, you can find
the relevant definition by looking at its own 'def' attribute or, if
it doesn't have one, the nearest preceding sibling par element that
has a 'def' attribute.  You can get this 'def' attribute with:

  @def | preceding-sibling::par[@def][1]/@def[not(current()/@def)]

or:

  (@def | preceding-sibling::par[@def][1]/@def)[last()]

this gets the last 'def' attribute in document order.  So within a
template that matches a par element, you can assign that 'def'
attribute to a variable, and then use it to get the relevant pardef
element, check whether it's supposed to be a list, and give a * if it
is:

<xsl:template match="par">
  <xsl:variable name="def"
      select="(@def | preceding-sibling::par[@def][1]/@def)[last()]" />
  <xsl:variable name="bullet"
      select="key('pardef-by-id', $def)/@list = 'bullet'" />
  <xsl:if test="$bullet">*</xsl:if>
  <xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:template>

Or you can still walk through the list one par element at a time, as I
described in the last email.  Again, use the key to find the relevant
pardef to work out what to do.

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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