[xsl] Re: Accounting for Arbitrary Wrappers Without Going Mad

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- W. Eliot Kimber wrote:

> I'm trying to implement support in my FO style sheet for Epic
> Editor's 
> change tracking markup. This markup is in a unique name space and may
> be 
> wrapped around any element or text to indicate whether the element is
> 
> added or deleted.
> 
> Within the scope of paragraphs it's not a big deal because the 
> processing in that context is pretty simple. But above the paragraph 
> level it gets pretty funky because the presence of the wrappers will 
> throw off match statements. I could of course add match options that 
> include the Epic change tracking elements, and would do so if that
> were
> 
> the end of it. Unfortunately, I also want to do different processing 
> based on the interaction of the change tracking markup and a
> parameter 
> that's passed in (reflecting the "view change tracking" setting in
> Epic
> 
> itself).
> 
> I can't think of an elegant solution to this sort of problem. An easy
> 
> solution would be to have the XPath matches simply ignore elements in
> a
> 
> particular name space, but I don't think that's possible. That would
> at
> 
> least keep the base transform working whether the wrappers were there
> or 
> not. But it wouldn't solve the larger problem of explosion of matches
> 
> and templates.
> 
> I'm wondering if there's a general pattern for approaching this type
> of
> 
> markup other than the brute force method?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eliot
> -- 
> W. Eliot Kimber, eliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Consultant, ISOGEN International

Hi Eliot,

You would not have such big problems, in case Epic did not use
wrappers, but just a simple attribute belonging to their namespace.

Therefore, if I were in your place, I would try a two-phase approach:

1. Convert the Epic editor's markup into an intermediate one, where
changes are tracked in attributes (or why not even get rid completely
of Epic's "added value").

2. Perform my regular transformation on the standard XML structure
(just ignoring or copying the tracking attributes)

3. (Only if necessary) convert the result back to Epic's wrappers.




=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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