[xsl] Re: have you an idea?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abbouh,

I'm sorry, I don't see how the numbers 12 and 32 are generated for 
paragraph1....

I'm guessing that 12 and 32 are start and end positions in the *output* file.

If this is the case, I suggest you use XSLT for the output but not the 
table of contents; generate that after the contents are done with another 
technology, such as Perl or Python. XSLT is not well designed for 
character-level manipulations.

Good luck,
Wendell

At 07:13 AM 6/11/2003, you wrote:
> this is an example for what i want to do:
>
> i supose this is my xml file:
> <document>
> <para>
> <word>aaa</word>
> <word>bbb</word>
> <word>ccc</word>
> <word>ddd</word>
> <word>eee</word>
> </para>
> <para>
> <word>kkk</word>
> <word>fff</word>
> <word>mmm</word>
> <word>ppp</word>
> </para>
> </document>
>
> my output file should have this structure:
>
> table of contents:
> paragraph1  12    32
> paragraph2  44  59
>
> paragraph1
> aaa
> bbb
> ccc
> ddd
> eee
> paragraph2
> kkk
> fff
> mmm
> ppp
>
>
> so  the first paragraph begin in character 12 and finish in character 32
>
> in the output file.

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