Re: [xsl] Extract footnotes

["J. S. Rawat" <jrawat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ken,
Thanks you very much for your efforts, thanks a lot.

...JSR
At 10:12 AM 11/3/2007 -0400, you wrote:
> At 2007-11-03 12:24 +0530, J. S. Rawat wrote:
> > Can anybody let me know how to extract "footnote" from paragraph and 
> > write it to end of the section.
>
> This is an exercise in my class for creating end notes from footnotes.
>
> > Below is what I am trying to do
> >
> > Input
> > <section>
> > <para>111...<footnote label="1" id="f1"><para>First fnt</para></footnote> 
> > 222... <footnote label="2" id="f2"><para>second fnt</para></footnote> </para>
> > <para>333...<footnote label="3" id="f3"><para>Third fnt</para></footnote> 
> > ...</para>
> > </section>
> >
> > Required Output
> > <level>
> > <para>111....222 ....  </para>
> > <para>333... ...</para>
> > <footnote label="1" id="f1"><para>First fnt</para></footnote>
> > <footnote label="2" id="f2"><para>second fnt</para></footnote>
> > <footnote label="3" id="f3"><para>Third fnt</para></footnote>
> > </level>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="section">
> > <level>
> > <xsl:apply-templates/>
> > <xsl:if test="descendant::*[self::footnote]">
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::*[self::section//footnote]"/>
> > </xsl:if>
> > </level>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > <xsl:template match="para">
> > <xsl:copy>
> > <xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::*[not(self::footnote)]"/>
> > </xsl:copy>
> > </xsl:template>
>
> Your problem is trying to do too much imperatively rather than 
> declaratively.  You are treating this like a programming language rather 
> than a templating language.
>
> BTW, your <xsl:if> isn't required because if there are no descendants, 
> then nothing gets pushed.
>
> Also, I feel your predicates are misleading and lengthy, and can be 
> expressed far more succinctly.
>
> In the solution below I'm using modes so that footnotes are handled in two 
> different ways at two different times.  Note how I'm "letting things 
> happen" with the template rules, rather than "forcing things to happen".
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> t:\ftemp>type rawat.xml
> <section>
> <para>111...<footnote label="1" id="f1"><para>First fnt</para></footnote> 
> 222...
>  <footnote label="2" id="f2"><para>second fnt</para></footnote> </para>
> <para>333...<footnote label="3" id="f3"><para>Third fnt</para></footnote> 
> ...</para>
> </section>
>
> t:\ftemp>type rawat.xsl
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
>                 version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="section">
>   <level>
>     <!--do the body of the section-->
>     <xsl:apply-templates/>
>     <!--do the end notes for the section-->
>     <xsl:apply-templates select=".//footnote" mode="end-notes"/>
>   </level>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="footnote">
>   <!--do nothing when first encountered-->
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="footnote" mode="end-notes">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"><!--identity for all other nodes-->
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> t:\ftemp>xslt rawat.xml rawat.xsl con
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <level>
>
>    <para>111... 222...  </para>
>
>    <para>333... ...</para>
>
>    <footnote label="1" id="f1">
>       <para>First fnt</para>
>    </footnote>
>    <footnote label="2" id="f2">
>       <para>second fnt</para>
>    </footnote>
>    <footnote label="3" id="f3">
>       <para>Third fnt</para>
>    </footnote>
> </level>
> t:\ftemp>
>
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