Re: [xsl] Flattening parts of a document heirarchy

[David Holden <dh@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 17 Oct 2003 2:10 pm, David Holden wrote:
> I know there are faq's on flattening but as  newbie i'm  a little unclear
> on this.
>
> My problem:
>
> incoming document is something like this:
>
> <doc>
>     text text text
>     <sec id="sec1">
>        <p>text1text1text1</p>
>         <sec id="sec1.1">
>            <p>text2 text2 text2</p>
>         </sec>
>        <p>text3 text3 text3</p>
>    </sec>
> </doc>
>
> i.e <sec> tags are nested to arbitary level.
>
> I need
>
> <doc>
>    text text text
>    <section id="s1" level="1">
>        <p>text1 text1 text1</p>
>    </section>
>    <section id="s2" level="2">
>         <p>text text text</p>
>    </section>
>    <section id="s3" level="1">
>        <p>text3 text3 text3</p>
>    </section>
> </doc>
>
>
>  thanks in advance,
>
>  Dave.

No replies to this, can XSLT really not do this? I've decided to address this 
by pre-filtering using SAX where this kind of transform is pretty easy.

 Dave.


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