[xsl] Re: xsl-list Digest 13 Apr 2005 05:10:00 -0000 Issue 386

[Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx>]

> Transforming XML Blockquotes - Mixed Content 14744 by: Edward Bryant 
> 14745 by: James Fuller 14746 by: Edward Bryant

> I am having a lot of trouble transforming XML blockquotes that are
> structurally and grammatically correct (i.e, as child elements to a
> parent paragraph tag) into XHTML that will be displayed correctly by
> a browser. Because of two separate IE6 bugs that prevent a blockquote
> from being structured as the child of a paragraph, I pretty much need
> the XSL output to be
>
> <p>Yadda yadda yadda:</p> <blockquote><p>blah blah
> blah</p></blockquote> <p class="cont">yackity yack</p>
>
>
> However, the XML is structured like this:
>
> <p>Yadda yadda yadda: <blockquote>blah blah blah</blockquote> yackity
> yack</p>
>
>
> So, my first thought was to make a conditional statement that would
> do this but I am having a lot of trouble constructing it. I can not
> locate any information on a conditional statement that would test
> whether one element (p) with mixed conternt contained another element
> (blockquote). I also am having trouble with a way to split up the p
> tag's text into the pre-blockquote and post-blockquote strings. Even
> with the above problems, I haven't even touched on the problems that
> a paragraph with multiple blockquotes would cause.

As Jim noted, I was asking the same question earlier in the day (how 
weird is that). I've still not managed to get a XSLT 1.0 solution (which 
I need), but in XSLT 2.0 it is really easy. There is even an example in 
the recommendation that mutatis mutandis works out of the box: 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#d5e20377> "Grouping Alternating Sequences 
of Elements".

-dan

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