Subject: [xsl] Creating Drop Caps with XSL From: David Laurie <dlaurie@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:18:23 -0600 |
Hello XSL list, I have been gleaning bits of coding help from the list archive for quite a while now (thanks!) but have run into something I cannot find a solution for so I finally needed to post. I am using xml and xslt to build a dynamic website that displays text and maps from an atlas. Our designer wants to be able to set off the first paragraph and first letter of each text block displayed. So I want to transform something like: <content> <header>Some heading</header> <paragraph> Some text here. Some text here<footnote number="1"/>. Some text here. </paragraph> <paragraph> Some text here. </paragraph> <paragraph> Some text here.</paragraph> </content> into: <content> <header>Some heading</header> <firstparagraph> <dropcap>S</dropcap>ome text here. Some text here<footnote number="1"/>. Some text here. </firstparagraph> <paragraph> Some text here. </paragraph> <paragraph> Some text here.</paragraph> </content> Following tips from list archive, I have managed to get almost proper output with the problem being the exclusion of the footnote tags from the newly created <firstparagraph> element. It is clear that this occurs because my xslt converts <paragraph> content to a string, thus omitting the <footnote> tags. The xsl I use: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <xsl:template match="div/paragraph[1]"> <xsl:variable name="dropcap" select="substring(.,1,1)"/> <xsl:element name="firstparagraph"> <xsl:element name="dropcap"> <xsl:value-of select="$dropcap"/> </xsl:element> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:copy> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> I am using the cocoon xslt tansformer built-in processor (a cagey way of saying I don't know the name of it ;).) The only solution I can see is to perform an intermediate transformation that captures all of the contents of paragraph[1] as a string (including the footnote tags), perform the transformation above, and then transform the appropriate firstparagraph contents back into tags using a string search operation. I couldn't find a means of accomplishing this so I am assuming it is not the correct solution. Can anyone suggest one? Thanks for your time, Dave David Laurie MA Humanities Computing
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