Re: [xsl] converting Word dictionary to FLEx

["Jim Albright jim_albright@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So my final solution ended up being totally different. I was trying to put all
the content into an element but for my application which is to flatten the xml
all I needed to do was to tag the first item and let the others pass through.
See the <<< below

My final output looks like

\entry_number 00002
\lx a-
\hm 1
\vernacular FALSE
\co |ga a.f.|r /|ga i.a.|r   verb
\senseStart 1
\definition  so, in order that perhaps
\source D2
\senseStart
\source Asp1.19
\source D2
\sectionHead Variant Forms:
\variant ad-
\co |ga a.f.|r /|ga i.a.|r  verb
\grammatical_info in 1|sup st|r person singular and third person plural
\senseStart  1. so, in order that perhaps
\startExample  riI# ad-ftuI#				<<< so here is where everything is bundled
together.  I didn't need to have all in one element. I just needed the flag
StartExample and all following was included in example.
\definition I want to go.
\startExample ira a-t-ia:r
\definition  He wants to see it.

Thank you
Jim Albright

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Albright jim_albright@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:19 PM
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Subject: Re: [xsl] converting Word dictionary to FLEx

Michael,

I never looked at 3.0 so I will do that now.  This is getting me much closer.
Thanks for the heads up.  I'll post solution when I get it done.

Jim Albright

(1) Firstly, I think you can use following-sibling::html:b rather than
following::html:b, which is a much more contained search.

(2) To stop the search at element X, the best solution in XSLT 3.0 is probably
xsl:iterate

<xsl:iterate select="following-sibling::*">
   ...
   <xsl:if test="self::h:span[@class='Arial']"><xsl:break/></xsl:if>

</xsl:iterate>

xsl:iterate is basically like for-each except the order of processing is
guaranteed and you can therefore break out as soon as a condition is
satisfied; you can also pass data from one iteration to the next via
parameters.

Michael Kay
Saxonica