RE: [xsl] testing for position of an element and displaying it accordingly

[ms <mina_hurray@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello:

I have tried to implement this solution but I dont
know where I am going wrong. Here is my complete code:

This template is used for formatting.
<xsl:template name="lists">
	<xsl:param name="format"/>
	<fo:list-block>
		<fo:list-item>
			<fo:list-item-label>
				<xsl:choose>
					<xsl:when test="$format = '1'">
						<fo:block>
							<fo:inline>
								<xsl:number format="1"/>.</fo:inline>
						</fo:block>
					</xsl:when>
				</xsl:choose>
			</fo:list-item-label>
			<fo:list-item-body start-indent="body-start()"
end-indent="0pt">
				<fo:block>
					<xsl:apply-templates>
				
						</xsl:apply-templates>
				</fo:block>
			</fo:list-item-body>
		</fo:list-item>
	</fo:list-block>
</xsl:template>


This template calls the above template for formatting:

    <xsl:template match="r1">
<xsl:if test="child::a">
<xsl:apply-templates select="a" mode="t"/>
</xsl:if>

        <xsl:call-template name="lists">
            <xsl:with-param
name="format">1</xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:template>

This is the template for element a which is a child of
<r1>.

<xsl:template match="a" mode="t">
		<fo:block space-before="6pt">
	<fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="."/>
		</fo:block>
	</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="a">
		<fo:block space-before="6pt">
	<fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="."/>
		</fo:block>
	</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text">
		<fo:block space-before="6pt">
	<fo:inline><xsl:apply-templates/>
		</fo:block>
	</xsl:template>


And my Input is:
<r1>
<a>test</a>
<a>test2</a>
 <text>test test</text>
<a>test3</a>
</r1>
 
My desired output is:

test
test2
1. test test
test3


The reason for checking if <a> is a child of <r1> and
applying the mode is so that this <a> appears above
<r1> without getting formatted as 1. test

So even though <r1> element is formatted to be 1., any
<a> element which appear immediately after <r1> should
not be formatted. If there is an <a> element after
some other element like in this example <text>, then
it should be displayed as it is in the document tree. 

Please let me know if this is clear and if there is a
way to do it and if there is amistake in my code. 

--- ms <mina_hurray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I did see the axis specifier thread on this list,
> unfortunately it is not me, but I am facing a
> similar
> issue. I tried to implement the solutions given in
> those, but I was not  successful and thats te reason
> for posting this issue. 
> 
> 
> --- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I assume you're the same person as xslt.new who
> > posted "axis specifiers"
> > last week (if not, it's a remarkable that you have
> > exactly the same problem
> > and the same misunderstandings).
> > 
> > We need to go back a step. You haven't understood
> a
> > word of the explanations
> > we gave you last week. Giving you the same
> > explanations again isn't going to
> > do much good. I'm really trying hard to read your
> > postings and work out
> > which step in the learning process you've got
> stuck
> > on, but I'm struggling. 
> > 
> > The normal way of processing an XML document is to
> > work top-down. First, you
> > have to think of the document as a tree, with the
> > root at the top (strange
> > in botany, but not in computing). The document
> node
> > itself is at the top,
> > then the r1 element, and (a,a,b,a) are below the
> r1
> > element, at the next
> > level down (I stress this because you talk of
> test3
> > as being "below" b,
> > which means you're not yet thinking in tree
> terms).
> > So top down processing
> > means you write a template rule for r1, which
> > typically applies templates to
> > each of its children. You then define template
> rules
> > for each kind of child.
> > 
> > This works when the rules for an element are
> > independent of where it appears
> > relative to other elements at the same level. For
> > example, if every a
> > element is processed by converting the <a> tag to
> a
> > <p>, then you can write
> > a template rule
> > 
> > <xsl:template match="a">
> >   <p><xsl:apply-templates/></p>
> > </xsl:template>
> > 
> > Similarly, if every b is processed by outputting a
> > <p> but with a sequence
> > number attached, you can write
> > 
> > <xsl:template match="b">
> >   <p><xsl:number/>: <xsl:apply-templates/></p>
> > </xsl:template>
> > 
> > Now, your input and your processing seems to
> follow
> > this conventional style.
> > As far as we can see, you've got a perfectly
> > straightforward easy
> > transformation to do here that yields to the basic
> > techniques in chapter 1
> > of any textbook, and we can't see why you're
> making
> > it so difficult.
> > 
> > Michael Kay
> > http://www.saxonica.com/
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ms [mailto:mina_hurray@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > > Sent: 19 January 2007 14:58
> > > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [xsl] testing for position of an
> element
> > and 
> > > displaying it accordingly
> > > 
> > > Hi all:
> > > 
> > > My input XML looks like this;
> > > 
> > > <r1>
> > > <a>test</a>
> > > <a>test2</a>
> > > <b>test test</b>
> > > <a>test3</a>
> > > </r1>
> > > 
> > > For this XML, I would like to write an XSLT
> which
> > basically 
> > > achieves the following:
> > > 
> > > 1) For the <a> elements which are above the <b>
> > element, they 
> > > should be displayed this way:
> > > 
> > > Test
> > > Test2
> > > 1)test test
> > > 
> > > 2) For the <a> element which appears after the
> <b>
> > element, I 
> > > want it displayed after the <b> element:
> > > 
> > > Test
> > > Test2
> > > 1)test test
> > > test3
> > > 
> > > How can I achieve this in XSLT?  I tried testing
> > the 
> > > position, using position()=1. This works
> obviously
> > for the 
> > > first <a> element and fails for the second one. 
> > > 
> > > Please let me know if this is possible? 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  
> > >
> >
>
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