Re: [xsl] Splitting XHTML by elements that have page-breaks

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martynas,

If your sibling recursion is very complex, it can be managed more 
easily by separating the process into two phases. Phase one marks the 
places where the splitting has to occur. (For example, you could use 
attribute flags on the elements starting the new chunk.) Phase two 
performs the sibling recursion, splitting at those places (looking 
for the attribute flags, not something else).

This way all the logic controlling where the splitting should happen 
is separate from the sibling recursion, which tends to make it much 
easier to see, extend and maintain.

In XSLT 2.0, where we can use for-each-group instead of sibling 
recursion, the same encapsulation can be achieved using a function.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 07:24 PM 9/15/2009, you wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I asked recently how to split a big XHTML file into several chunks
> (under 300 KB) for use in ePub. I have that problem semi-solved -- I
> decided to go the easier route and split the file into chapters, and
> the chunks turned out to be well less than 300 KB, so I'll stick to
> that so far.
>
> I used sibling recursion on html:h1 elements, and that worked fine.
> But now I need not only headings to be used for splitting, but many
> more elements, e.g. html:p[@class = 'Quote'] -- actually all those
> that have page-breaks defined in their styles.
>
> The styles are defined in a separate style.xml file which comes from
> ODT. Style names become CSS classnames in XHTML, so I can check by
> @class value if a style has a page-break:
> document('styles.xml')//style:style[@style:name =
> 'Quote']/style:paragraph-properties/@fo:break-before = 'page'
>
> And here comes the question -- how can I define sibling recursion not
> only on html:h1, but on html:* that have page-breaks? I hope it's
> possible to understand..
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martynas
> semantic-web.dk


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