Re: [xsl] Best Way to Break Up Nested Structures Based On Inline Elements

["Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I definitely owe Gerrit the beverage of his choice. I was able to make this
code work with my details.

While it's not obvious (at least not to me--I still need to take some time to
fully appreciate how it works) it's definitely much more elegant than the
recursive approach I was thinking of.

I will probably also need to use this technique to handle the challenge of
changing page sequences to render long rotated tables or foldout pages.

When generating FO it's much eaiser logically to emit page sequence start
markers and then come back and allocate things to page sequences than it is to
try to work out the page sequence mapping when there's not a simple mapping
from top-level elements to page sequences.

Cheers,

Eliot
--
Eliot Kimber
http://contrext.com

o;?On 4/18/18, 2:00 PM, "Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    Hold my beer.

    <?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";
       xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
       exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
       version="2.0">

       <xsl:output indent="yes"/>

       <xsl:template match="node() | @*" mode="#default split">
         <xsl:copy>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" mode="#current"/>
         </xsl:copy>
       </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template match="fo:block[empty(ancestor::fo:block)]"
    mode="#default">
         <xsl:variable name="block-root" as="element(fo:block)" select="."/>
         <xsl:for-each-group select="descendant::node()[empty(node())]"
    group-starting-with="two-column-start">
           <xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()"
    group-ending-with="two-column-end">
             <xsl:apply-templates select="$block-root" mode="split">
               <xsl:with-param name="restricted-to" as="node()*"
                 select="current-group()/ancestor-or-self::node()"
    tunnel="yes"/>
               <xsl:with-param name="two-col-start" as="xs:boolean"
    tunnel="yes"
                 select="exists(self::two-column-start)"/>
             </xsl:apply-templates>
           </xsl:for-each-group>
         </xsl:for-each-group>
       </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template match="node()" mode="split" priority="1">
         <xsl:param name="restricted-to" tunnel="yes" as="node()+"/>
         <xsl:if test="exists(. intersect $restricted-to)">
           <xsl:next-match/>
         </xsl:if>
       </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template match="fo:block[empty(ancestor::fo:block)]"
mode="split">
         <xsl:param name="restricted-to" tunnel="yes" as="node()*"/>
         <xsl:param name="two-col-start" tunnel="yes" as="xs:boolean"/>
         <xsl:copy>
           <xsl:apply-templates select="@*" mode="#current"/>
           <xsl:if test="$two-col-start">
             <xsl:attribute name="span" select="'none'"/>
           </xsl:if>
           <xsl:apply-templates mode="#current"/>
         </xsl:copy>
       </xsl:template>

       <xsl:template match="two-column-start | two-column-end" mode="split"/>

    </xsl:stylesheet>


    On 18/04/2018 20:23, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
    > Gerrit,
    >
    > I don't immediately see how the code in the referenced message works but
it's simple enough to try in my context.
    >
    > In my case the number of switches is small relative to the total
content, so it will only be applied occasionally and infrequently.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > E.
    >
    > --
    > Eliot Kimber
    > http://contrext.com
    >
    > o;?On 4/18/18, 1:15 PM, "Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex
gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    >
    >      Hi Eliot,
    >
    >      I think this can be tackled with what I call "upward projection",
see
    >      for ex. https://markmail.org/message/kmq2g4fidmw6cofz
    >
    >      You'd identify all leaf elements and group them (maybe a
combination of
    >      group-starting-with="two-colum-start" and
    >      group-ending-with="two-colum-end" is in order here).
    >
    >      Then for each group you transform the top-level block in a certain
mode,
    >      with a tunneled parameter. The tunneled parameter contains the
current
    >      group and its ancestors.
    >
    >      In the template that matches any element in this mode, you check
whether
    >      the tunneled parameter contains the current element. If so, the
    >      next-match identity template will apply, if not, nothing will be
written
    >      to the result.
    >
    >      There's a special template in this mode that matches the
    >      two-column-start element. It will create <fo:block span="none"> and
then
    >      go on processing the children.
    >
    >      I'm not 100% sure whether this works, but I have an
intercontinental
    >      flight ahead of me. It will give me some time to create working
code,
    >      unless you're faster implementing the suggested solution (or a
better one).
    >
    >      I guess that the solution scales with the number of splitting
points
    >      times the number of leaves, so performance may deteriorate for
large
    >      documents with frequently changing column spans.
    >
    >      Gerrit
    >
    >      On 18/04/2018 19:45, Eliot Kimber ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
    >      > Using XSLT 2 with Saxon.
    >      >
    >      > In the context of generating XSL-FO markup where there tree of
fo:block elements can be quite deep, I need to break the blocks into a
sequence of top-level blocks that specify @span based on the presence of
markers anywhere in the heirarchy. This is to support FOP's strict
implementation of the FO spec, which only allows specifying column spans on
direct children of fo:flow.
    >      >
    >      > In my processing I'm emitting marker elements to signal the
starts and ends of areas that need to change the column spanning, e.g.:
    >      >
    >      > <fo:block span="all">
    >      >    <fo:block>
    >      >       <fo:block>
    >      >         <fo:block>
    >      >            <two-column-start/>
    >      >        </fo:block>
    >      >        ...
    >      >       <two-column-end/>
    >      >     </fo:block>
    >      >    <fo:block>...
    >      >    </fo:block>
    >      > </fo:block>
    >      >
    >      > Where the result needs to be:
    >      >
    >      > <fo:block span="all">
    >      >     <!-- Stuff before two-column start -->
    >      > </fo:block>
    >      > <fo:block span="none">
    >      >     <!-- Stuff up to <two-column-end/> marker -->
    >      > </fo:block>
    >      > <fo:block span="all">
    >      >    <!-- Stuff after <two-column-end> marker -->
    >      > </fo:block>
    >      >
    >      > There must be a general pattern for solving this kind of
transformation pattern but I'm not seeing it or not remembering it.
    >      >
    >      > I can think of a recursive algorithm to do it but is there a
simpler or more efficient approach? Conceptually it's a for-each-group problem
but the structure of the content doesn't see to lend itself to grouping.
    >      >
    >      > Thanks,
    >      >
    >      > Eliot
    >      > --
    >      > Eliot Kimber
    >      > http://contrext.com
    >      >
    >      >
    >      >
    >
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    Gerrit Imsieke
    GeschC$ftsfC<hrer / Managing Director
    le-tex publishing services GmbH
    Weissenfelser Str. 84, 04229 Leipzig, Germany
    Phone +49 341 355356 110, Fax +49 341 355356 510
    gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx, http://www.le-tex.de

    Registergericht / Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Leipzig
    Registernummer / Registration Number: HRB 24930

    GeschC$ftsfC<hrer / Managing Directors:
    Gerrit Imsieke, Svea Jelonek, Thomas Schmidt