Re: [xsl] Re: xsl-list Digest 13 Apr 2005 05:10:00 -0000 Issue 386

[Mike Ferrando <mikeferrando@xxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel O.,
For XSLT 1.0 I have the following solutions to suggest:

There is a simple hack you could try.

<xsl:template match="p[child::blockquote]">
  <xsl:element name="p">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | * | text()"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="blockquote[parent::p]">
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/p&gt;</xsl:text>
  <xsl:element name="{local-name()}">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | * | text()"/>
  </xsl:element>
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;p&gt;</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>

If this was unacceptable, I would use the saxon:node-set() function.
1. collect the entire document into a node-set variable.
2. create an attribute for each <p> giving the position number from
the root.
3. create a template for the node-set ($my_doc)//p/child::blockquote.
4. create a node-set of each p/child:blockquote numbering the nodes.
5. send the $x (beginning node) and $y (end node) to a call-template.
6. process these nodes before and after the blockquote inside a new
<p>.
7. process the blockquote normally.

This is a lot of work, but it is legal.

Mike Ferrando
Library Technician
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
202-707-4454

--- Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Transforming XML Blockquotes - Mixed Content 14744 by: Edward
> Bryant 
> > 14745 by: James Fuller 14746 by: Edward Bryant
> 
> > 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>
> > 
> > 
> > So, my first thought was to make a conditional statement that
> would
> > do this but I am having a lot of trouble constructing it. I can
> not
> > locate any information on a conditional statement that would test
> > whether one element (p) with mixed conternt contained another
> element
> > (blockquote). I also am having trouble with a way to split up the
> p
> > tag's text into the pre-blockquote and post-blockquote strings.
> Even
> > with the above problems, I haven't even touched on the problems
> that
> > a paragraph with multiple blockquotes would cause.
> 
> As Jim noted, I was asking the same question earlier in the day
> (how 
> weird is that). I've still not managed to get a XSLT 1.0 solution
> (which 
> I need), but in XSLT 2.0 it is really easy. There is even an
> example in 
> the recommendation that mutatis mutandis works out of the box: 
> <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#d5e20377> "Grouping Alternating
> Sequences 
> of Elements".
> 
> -dan
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Paul O'Donnell, PhD
> Associate Professor of English
> University of Lethbridge
> Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4
> Tel. (403) 329-2377
> Fax. (403) 382-7191
> E-mail <daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx>
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> 
> 


		
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