Re: [xsl] Using XSLT to build an index

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The list archives did not seem to contain an XSLT stylesheet that could
> index an XML file, but I may have missed it.

Perhaps my post from 2005 in this list on Concordance Building can help?

http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200511/post00190.html


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On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Mark <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The list archives did not seem to contain an XSLT stylesheet that could
> index an XML file, but I may have missed it. Is it practical to write my
own
> XSLT 2 indexing stylesheet? If so, I have a bilingual XML file that I want
> to index. My assumptions are that I must get rid of the punctuation
> properly, then isolate the words, sort them, remove stop words, and so on.
> To get started, I need a bit of help. All of the phrases are found in two
> attributes: @czech and @eng.
>
> Three questions:
> (1) I am aware from Michaelbs book that regex expressions may be used in
the
> replace() function, but I do not know how to write that regex expression. I
> would like to remove all the punctuation from a phrase as follows: for
> everything except a hyphen [-], replacement should be with an empty string;
> the hyphen should be replaced with a single space.
>
> (2) I assume that to get rid of extra spaces (if any), I can use a
construct
> like: normalize-space(replace(@czech, bsome regex expressionb)).
>
> (3) I assume that tokenize(normalize-space(replace(@czech, 'some regex
> expression'))) will permit me to write out a list of the words found in
> those attributes to an XML document. I am not completely clear as to what
> tokenize() returns, or how to access that return.
>
> I would appreciate any comments, and especially the construction of the
> regex expression needed.
> Thanks,
> Mark