Re: [xsl] Overlap (was: Grouping Text Nodes)

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

You asked about a stylesheet that

> enables someone to easily switch between two (arbitrary?) overlapping 
> hierarchies as the
> dominant hierarchy?

Have you looked at my Extreme paper of 2004?

See

http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/Proceedings/html/2004/Piez01/EML2004Piez01.html

The job is not impossible, but isn't exactly trivial either. It requires 
careful specification of several intermediate steps. So it may be a taller 
order than you think. The hardest part is knowing when the target hierarchy 
is in fact a hierarchy. (We're working on that. This is the problem that 
made me to decide to do my tag-writing in LMNL "dragontooth" or "sawtooth" 
syntax, not XML.) If you know, in advance, that it is, things are a bit easier.

If you want to know more about this, ask me off-list.

Cheers,
Wendell


======================================================================
Wendell Piez                            mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mulberry Technologies, Inc.                http://www.mulberrytech.com
17 West Jefferson Street                    Direct Phone: 301/315-9635
Suite 207                                          Phone: 301/315-9631
Rockville, MD  20850                                 Fax: 301/315-8285
----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML
======================================================================