Re: [xsl] Ideas for creating quotation collection

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 19, 2004, at 2:28 AM, Steffen Gl|ckselig wrote:

> I have my quotations in a XML-file that looks like this:
> <coll>
>   <quote>
>     <line>The man who does not read books has no advantage over the
> man that can not read them.</line>
>     <source>Mark Twain</source>
>   </quote>
> </coll>
>
> After the first pass it should be something like
> <coll>
>   <quote category="Mark Twain">
>     <line>The man who does not read books has no advantage over the
> man that can not read them.</line>
>     <source>Mark Twain</source>
>   </quote>
> </coll>
>
> With this additional information in place I want to generate a
> XHTML-file like this:
>
> [html-stuff snipped]
> <h2 id="Mark_Twain>Mark Twain</h2>
> <blockquote>
>   <p>The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man
> that can not read them.</p>
> </blockquote>

Just some general thoughts from a non-expert who sometimes grapples
with this sort of stuff.

First, can you not clean up your XML so you don't have to worry about
the case-sensitivity?  How about, for example, an id for each name --
where you have code like  <source idref="twain">Mark Twain</source> --
and then group by id?

With respect to how to code this, the grouping support in XSLT 2.0 is
certainly useful for this sort of thing.  I got some help from Jeni
Tennison a few weeks back on this issue, in a thread called "regexs,
grouping (?) and XSLT2?"  The problem I had was more complex, but you
could probably adapt it.

I don't really see why you need multiple passes, but maybe I'm not
understanding right.

Bruce