Re: [xsl] Converting from <dt><dd> pairs to better XML

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 25.08.2010 23:56, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> There are variable numbers of each dt/dd combination, but they are
> generally kept together by<dt>  value.
> Ultimately I'd like to convert this into a pipe-separated-value file
> (with implied headers):
>
> 111|222,333,444|555,666|....

Dear Evan,

You say you are using xsltproc which is XSLT 1. On the other hand, you 
teach yourself XSLT 2.0 with Michael Kay's book. Can you switch to an 
XSLT 2 processor, such as Saxon? Then this will serve as a solution:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
  xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
  version="2.0"  >

  <xsl:output method="text" />

  <xsl:template match="dl">
    <xsl:variable name="dds" as="xs:string+">
      <xsl:for-each-group select="dt" group-by=".">
        <xsl:sequence
          select="string-join(
                    for $dt in current-group()
                      return $dt/following-sibling::*[1]/self::dd,
                    ','
                  )">
        </xsl:sequence>
      </xsl:for-each-group>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:sequence select="string-join($dds, '|')" />
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

This is based on the assumption that each dt is followed by exactly one 
dd. If there may be multiple dds after each dt, you should group 
adjacent dds in a first pass.

-Gerrit

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