RE: [xsl] nested XML using xslt

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Also, as an earlier respondent noticed, it's impossible to answer 
this question without specifying the source data on which the 
stylesheet must operate.

The confusing thing is that the OP spoke of having to generate nested 
structures, but the templates in his code matched structures with the 
same names as his presumed output.

So which is it: generating nested structures from some (unstated) 
input, or processing nested structures -- or mapping one nested 
structure to another? Any of these may be trivially easy in XSLT, but 
they aren't the same.

Following the list guidelines and providing illustrations of both 
source and intended result would be a big help here.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 07:05 PM 7/23/2009, Mike wrote:
> > The trick is to make sure that the first list3 gets closed
> > after <list4> , and a new <list3> opens after the first closes.
>
> It's too late at night for me to understand your problem, but this sentence
> sounds as if you're approaching it from the wrong angle.
>
> Don't think in terms of opening and closing elements. Think in terms of
> constructing a tree of nodes. Writing an element is an atomic operation, it
> isn't two separate operations to write the start and end tags. Draw the
> result tree you want to produce on a scrap of paper - as a tree - and keep
> it in front of you while coding; don't think about the serialized XML
> output.


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