[xsl] re: Multiple Table Footnotes

["Michael Smith" <mikesmi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jay,
 
Sorry for the delay in getting back to you about my question. Take the
following XML code as an example of my question. Say that each FirstHist
grouping is converted into a separate table during transformation to HTML
(in this case I will have two separate tables). I want all body footnotes to
appear at the end of the HTML document, but all footnotes within each
FirstHist group to be placed at the end of their respective tables. So my
questions are:

1) How to I get the pass that will place the main body footnotes at the end
of the document to ignore the Footnotes in the FirstHist groupings? I don't
want these included in the count or the end-of-document placing.

2) How do I get each table to have their own Footnote count independent of
the main body footnotes and the other table's footnotes?


 
======== Code Begins ============
<RootTag>
   <FirstTag> 
      <FirstMainBody>

         <FirstName> debug diag online <FootNote>This is a title 
			footnote.</FootNote></FirstName>
         <FirstDesc>
            <Para> To enable online output of the goggly-gook, use the
                <FirstName>goggly-gook diag online</FirstName> command. To
			  disable debugging, use the no form of the command.
			  <FootNote>This is the first body footnote.
			  </FootNote></Para>
         </FirstDesc>
         
         <FirstHist>
            <FirstHistItem>
               <Release> 8.01</Release>
               <ModificationInfo>
                  <Para> The new command <FirstName>goggly-gook diag 
				online</FirstName> was released.<Footnote>
				We thought it was a good idea at the time.
				</FootNote></Para>
               </ModificationInfo>
            </FirstHistItem>	
            <FirstHistItem>
               <Release> 8.02</Release>
               <ModificationInfo>
                  <Para> The command <FirstName>goggly-gook diag 
				online</FirstName> was removed. <Footnote>
				But decided it was a bad idea, so removed.
				</FootNote</Para>
               </ModificationInfo>
            </FirstHistItem>
         </FirstHist>


         <FirstName> Some stupid name TWO</FirstName>
         <FirstDesc>
            <Para> To enable online output of the guillotine, use the
                <FirstName>enable guillotine online</FirstName> command. 
				To disable debugging, use the no form of the
command.
				<FootNote>This is the second body footnote.
				</FootNote></Para>
         </FirstDesc>

         <FirstHist>
            <FirstHistItem>
               <Release> 9.01</Release>
               <ModificationInfo>
                  <Para> The new command <FirstName>online mistake 
				catcher</FirstName> was released.<Footnote>
				We thought it was a good idea at the time.
				</FootNote></Para>
               </ModificationInfo>
            </FirstHistItem>	
            <FirstHistItem>
               <Release> 9.02</Release>
               <ModificationInfo>
                  <Para> The command <FirstName>online mistake catcher
				</FirstName> was removed. <Footnote>
					Yet another idea that flopped, so
removed.
					</FootNote</Para>
               </ModificationInfo>
            </FirstHistItem>
         </FirstHist>

         <FirstName> Some stupid name TWO</FirstName>
         <FirstDesc>
            <Para> To enable online output of the guillotine, use the
                <FirstName>enable guillotine online</FirstName> command. 
			  To disable debugging, use the no form of the
command. 
				<FootNote>This is the third body footnote.
				</FootNote></Para>
         </FirstDesc>

      </FirstMainBody>
   </FirstTag> 
</RootTag>
 
=========Code Ends ================

Hi, Mike,

Welcome to the list.

It sounds like a fairly straightforward grouping problem, but it's a bit 
hard to tell from the description. The preferred (because it removes 
ambiguities) way to post a question on the list is to show us a 
small-but-complete representation of your problem in XML, the XSL you've 
tried so far (unless you have been completely stumped, which is OK), and 
the desired output.

So, post a small-but-complete example of the problem you have, and we can 
do a lot more for you. The list doesn't take attachments (a feature many 
of us like), so just paste the XML and XSL right into the message.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




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[xsl] Multiple table footnotes

Hi everyone,

<newbie_alert>

I have a question about footnotes that I hope someone will be able to help
steer me in the right direction. In dealing with footnotes that appear in
both the body of the document, as well as in several tables, how does one
keep each table's footnote numbering and count separate from the footnote
numbering and count in the main body of the document, and from other table
footnote schemes (assuming you were using one tag - Footnote - for all
footnotes regardless of where they appeared in a document; also, != 
DocBook
if that's required info)? 

In the XML content I'm transforming, we're taking some non-tabular content
and putting them into tables during the transform. I'm stumped on how to
handle similarly-tagged footnotes in such newly-created tables so that 
they
have their own, independant numbering structure, with footnotes placed 
below
their respective tables.

Thanks much for your thoughts on this,

Mike

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