Re: [xsl] Transforming XML Blockquotes - Mixed Content

[James Fuller <jim.fuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Edward Bryant wrote:

> I am having a lot of trouble transforming XML blockquotes that are
> structurally and grammatically correct (i.e, as child elements to a
> parent paragraph tag) into XHTML that will be displayed correctly by a
> browser. Because of two separate IE6 bugs that prevent a blockquote
> from being structured as the child of a paragraph, I pretty much need
> the XSL output to be
>
>   <p>Yadda yadda yadda:</p>
>   <blockquote><p>blah blah blah</p></blockquote>
>   <p class="cont">yackity yack</p>
>
> However, the XML is structured like this:
>
>   <p>Yadda yadda yadda:
>  <blockquote>blah blah blah</blockquote>
>   yackity yack</p>
>

your best bet is to remove all <p/>'s and then apply text() matching
template that wraps text with <p/>, along with a blockquote template
that just copies itself.

actually (as it weirdly seems) there was a similar type problem earlier
today on the list

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Re: [xsl] Transformation problem tei > xhtml

this should put you on the right track

gl, Jim Fuller