RE: [xsl] Re: Wrapping problem

Subject: RE: [xsl] Re: Wrapping problem
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 12:06:35 +0100
> Hi Mike,
>    Can you please post this approach in more detail. I am not 
> able to find anything about it on google.
> 

Since you insist:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />

<xsl:template match="/play">
  <play>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="scene" />
  </play>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="scene">
  <scene name="{.}">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::character[1]"/>
  </scene>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="character">
    <character name="{.}">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::line]"/>
    </character>
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[self::character|self::scene][1][self::character
]"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="line">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::line]"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I call the technique "sibling recursion". It's more concise than most
recursive code, because it's self-terminating: you don't need to test
explicitly whether there are more items to process, because apply-templates
does that automatically for you.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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