Re: [xsl] outputting mutiple html files

[David Elsmore <delsmore@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

George,

Thank you so much, this is perfect!

David

George Cristian Bina wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> When you match a session you can apply the templates further only on 
> the elements following the current session until the next session 
> element instead of the elements inside the current session element.
>
> Assuming the following input document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <test>
>   <section>section one</section>
>   <para>para1</para>
>   <para>para2</para>
>   <section>section two</section>
>   <para>para3</para>
> </test>
>
> then the following stylesheet
>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="1.0">
>     <xsl:template match="/">
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="test/section"></xsl:apply-templates>
>     </xsl:template>
>     <xsl:template match="section">
>       <!-- create section file file -->
>       section
>       <xsl:variable name="sid" select="generate-id(.)"/>
>       <xsl:apply-templates 
> select="following-sibling::*[name()!='section' and 
> generate-id(preceding-sibling::section[1])=$sid]"/>
>     </xsl:template>
>
>     <xsl:template match="para">
>       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>     </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
> will get as output:
>
>       section
>       para1para2
>
>       section
>       para3
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>  George
> -----------------------------------------------
> George Cristian Bina
> <oXygen/> XML Editor - http://www.oxygenxml.com
>
>
>
> David Elsmore wrote:
>
> > I want to transform an xml file, outputting separate sections into 
> > multiple html documents. If the xml was srtructured as follows I 
> > would have no problem, I could simply use <xsl:for-each 
> > select="section">
> >
> > <section>
> > <title>section one</title>
> > <para/>
> > <para/>
> > </section>
> >
> > However, the structure of the xml file (over which I have no control) 
> > is more like:
> >
> > <section>section one</section>
> > <para/>
> > </para>
> > <section>section two</section>
> > <para/>...
> >
> > The section tags, rather than wrap separate areas of content merely 
> > indicate where a new section begins
> >
> > Is there an easy way to do this?
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help
> >
> > David

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