Re: [xsl] Joining sibling elements

[Marcin Miłkowski <milek_pl@xxxxx>]

Mukul Gandhi wrote:
> Hi Marcin,
>    I think, in this case we have to follow some hard coding approach.
> IMHO, I think there is a point when automation of XSLT Stylesheet
> writing is not feasible.

You might be right. That's why I wondered from the start if that's 
feasible. Note that what I want to achieve is clearly and easily 
computable in many functional languages (I'm searching forward for a 
given pattern and applying a kind of compression to the output). Of 
course, given that XSLT is Turing Machine Equivalent, there must be a 
way to do this but it could be quite cumbersome.

Yet I can see some other way to do this. I use a template on a <a> 
level. I call a template which processes the node: If there are two 
sibling <b> elements with same children, I join d/text() contents adding 
a space, if not, I output the joined node processed so far (until the 
position of the following-node) and I call the same template recursively 
for the rest of the node.

This could work, I think, and should not even be very slow with this 
recursive processing. But turning this vague idea into code will take me 
some time :)

Best regards, and thanks again -
	Marcin