RE: [xsl] Using XSLT to add markup to a document

[cknell@xxxxxxxxxx]

As Ed used to say to Johnny, "You are correct, sir!". XSLT 1.0 is good at working with elements and attributes and so forth. What you want to do is create an element where none existed before and there are no XML semantic cues to identify them. You have two choices, upgrade to the latest Saxon version which supports XSLT 2.0 features like regular expression matching, or go the non-XSL route and pre-process your XML document with Perl (or another language that supports regular expression matching) and add the new markup before you run your XSLT transform. Having said that, I expect that Dimitre Novachev will now tell you that he has just the thing you need in his FXSL bag o' tricks.
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Jim Melton <jim.melton@xxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 03 Jul 2003 14:27:36 -0600
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:       jim.melton@xxxxxxx
Subject:  [xsl] Using XSLT to add markup to a document

Gentlepeople,

I'm struggling with a problem that I fear isn't easily solved with XSLT, 
but there are many experts on this list who might be able to help.  The 
brief summary of my problem is that I want to find certain words that 
appear in paragraphs throughout a very large (XML) document and mark up 
those words without making any other changes to my document.

For example, consider a document with the following fragment:

<para>
This is a sample document that deals with markup of <emph>text</emph>.
</para>
<para>
When one applies <emph>markup</emph> to a large document, one is faced with 
a <def>time-consuming</def> effort.
</para>

If one of the words to which I wish to apply markup is "markup" and another 
is "document", then I would want the result to be something like this:

<para>
This is a sample <special>document</special> that deals with 
<special>markup</special> of <emph>text</emph>.
</para>
<para>
When one applies <emph><special>markup</special></emph> to a large 
<special>document</special>, one is faced with a <def>time-consuming</def> 
effort.
</para>

As you see from this example, I want to *add* markup to the words I have 
found where they appear in my result tree, but copy everything else in my 
document to the output tree unchanged.

I tend to use Saxon (currently using 6.5.2) as my primary XSLT engine, but 
I also have Microsoft's MSXML 4.0 (and could undoubtedly find others if 
required to do so).

Any guidance or advice?

Many thanks,
    Jim
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