Re: [xsl] Count Ancestors Up To But Not Including a Given Type

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> > It took my aging brain 
>
> I believe it's younger than mine:-)

Born the same week John Glenn circled the Earth for the first time...

> > Here's how I understand this to work:
>
> looks aboout right.
> Of course the 
>   <xsl:variable name="lists" select="QName('','ol'),QName('','ul')"/>
> is really just there to give Michael a chance to point out that a more
> elegant approach would be use a schema that put all lists into a list
> substitution group or schema type and then select on that schmema
> construct rather than selecting on names and maintaining a list of names
> (or QNames) in the stylesheet, but that requires a schema aware processor.

In the case of DITA there is no base class underlying ul and ol so I 
wrote a simple isList() function that serves the same purpose.

Cheers,

Eliot


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