Am I missing something?

["Kirk V. Hastings" <khasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

I'm working on transforming TEI documents to HTML for on-line display. My 
problem has to do with converting page-break and column-break elements to 
HTML table elements so that the book page can be visually reconstructed. 
TEI unfortunately uses EMPTY elements to indicate page and column breaks. 
For a two page, two column document, you would have something like the 
following:

...
  <div type="document">
    <pb n="1"/>
    <cb n="1/1"/>
    <p>Some Text</p>
    <cb n="1/2"/>
    <p>Some Text</p>
    <pb n="2"/>
    <cb n="1/1"/>
    <p>Some Text</p>
    <cb n="1/2"/>
    <p>Some Text</p>
  </div>
...

What I would like to do is convert those empty elements to container 
elements so that I can use tables to render the textual divisions. For 
instance:

...
  <div class="document">
    <table class="pb">
	<tr><th colspan="2">Page 1</th></tr>
	<tr>
	  <td class="cb"><p>Some Text</p></td>
	  <td class="cb"><p>Some Text</p></td>
	</tr>
    </table>
    <table class="pb">
	<tr><th colspan="2">Page 2</th></tr>
	<tr>
	  <td class="cb"><p>Some Text</p></td>
	  <td class="cb"><p>Some Text</p></td>
	</tr>
    </table>
  </div>
...

But for the life of me, I don't see how to do it with XSLT. The following 
template makes XT see red:

<xsl:template match="pb">
  </table>
  <table>
    <tr><th colspan="2">Page <xsl:value-of select="@n"/></th></tr>
</xsl:template>

Is there a workaround that allows you to open an element in one template 
and close it in another. Is there a "correct" way to approach this. Or, am 
I just missing something obvious?

Kirk

Kirk V. Hastings
Digital Publishing Specialist
Library Systems Office
386 Doe Annex
University of California
Berkeley, CA, 94720

khasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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