RE: [xsl] Trying to select sibling nodes between two nodes

["Ylvisaker, Steve" <steve.j.ylvisaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Ken - that's where I figured I needed to go with it. Will do. Hope all
is well with you.
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 4:20 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Trying to select sibling nodes between two nodes

At 2010-01-08 16:12 -0600, Ylvisaker, Steve wrote:
>I have some unfortunate xml that I am trying to parse:
>
><label>first text<br/>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text<br/>third
>text</label>
>
>I need to transform this into:
>
><label>
>  <flowPara>first text</flowPara>
>  <flowPara>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text</flowPara>
>  <flowPara>third text</flowPara>
></label>
>
>Basically I need to select nodes between nodes in a "flat" data
>progression. I can think of some ugly approaches that would accomplish
>this but it seems I should be able to use "<<" and ">>"
>to select nodes between occurrences of <br/>. However, no matter how I
>attempt to use these operators the result is a syntax error with "<"
>being illegal.
>
>Can anyone point me to an example of how I can unflatten this xml?

This has come up before and it comes up in the classroom.  What you need to
use here is grouping, creating new groups for every <br> and encapsulating
everything in the group except <br> elements (which are the first in those
groups that have a <br> and possibly not present in the very first group, as
is true with your data).

I hope the working answer below helps.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type steve.xml
<label>first text<br/>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text<br/>third
text</label  >
T:\ftemp>xslt2 steve.xml steve.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<label>
    <flowPara>first text</flowPara>
    <flowPara>second<emphasis>bold</emphasis> text</flowPara>
    <flowPara>third text</flowPara>
</label>
T:\ftemp>type steve.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                 version="2.0">

<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="label">
   <label>
     <xsl:for-each-group select="node()" group-starting-with="br">
       <flowPara>
         <xsl:copy-of select="current-group()[not(self::br)]"/>
       </flowPara>
     </xsl:for-each-group>
   </label>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>


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