Re: Marked up data with sectbreaks (was Re: [xsl] XSLT FAQ ideas)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ERH,

At 09:47 AM 2/18/2003, you wrote:
> > The problem gets more complicated (much more) if your breaks are not all 
> > at the same level.
>
> Yes, I can see that. Fortunately, mine are at the same level. I wonder if 
> multi-level breaking could be handled just by using the following axis 
> instead of following-sibling?

Take a look at the thread on "extracting a verse" from last December.

This is an example of a classic "up-translation" (because you're taking 
information that is only implicit in the markup structures, and making it 
explicit). XSLT excels at down-translations. New constructs to support 
grouping, more versatile string-processing, capabilities to match more 
freely (matching on ranges or substrings remains an intriguing concept), 
all will help with going uphill. But it still may be a bit unnatural for 
the processing model. The getting-your-parsing-for-free aspect of XSLT is 
less useful when the information isn't visible to an XML parse.

Cheers,
Wendell


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