Re: More XSL Discussion

["Michael Kay" <M.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>| - it imposes a requirement that the start and end tags be balanced. This
is
>| extremely restrictive: for example if you have two patterns, one for the
>| first element of a group and the other for the last element in a group,
you
>| cannot generate a opening <UL> tag in the first and a closing </UL> in
the
>| second.
>
>I'm having a hard time constructing an example where I'd want to
>do this.

I can't think of a <UL> example off my head, but the following example is
real. The XML is:

<SPEECH>
<SPEAKER>ROSENCRANTZ</SPEAKER>
<SPEAKER>GUILDENSTERN</SPEAKER>
<LINE>The single and peculiar life is bound,</LINE>
<LINE>With all the strength and armour of the mind.</LINE>
<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR>
</SPEECH>

and I want to render it in HTML as

<TABLE><TR>
<TD>ROSENCRANTZ<BR>GUILDENSTERN</TD>
<TD>The single and peculiar life is bound<BR>
With all the strength and armour of the mind.<BR>
<I>Exeunt</I></TD>
</TR></TABLE>

how do I do that in XSL? I can do it easily, of course, by generating
unbalanced tags in CDATA, but I'm told that's cheating.

And don't tell me to change the XML, I didn't design it!

Mike Kay




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