Subject: Re: [xsl] How Best to Generate Result Documents from Nested Structures? From: "Michael Sokolov msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 16:43:14 -0000 |
The DITA for Publishers Word-to-DITA transformation framework takes as input a DOCX document.xml file and produces as output one or more result documents reflecting DITA maps and topics generated from the Word document.
The result documents come from a hierarchy, e.g., a map that references topics using a hierarchy of nested links (topic references).
The way I've implemented this is to apply a series of transforms to the DOCX that transforms the flat sequence of Word paragraphs into a hierarchy of maps, topicrefs, and topics as a single XML document. From this hierarchical document I then identify the result document boundaries, still within a single XML document. Finally I process this "result documents" document to generate each of the result documents. This approach avoids the restriction on starting a new <xsl:result-document> in the context of an existing <xsl:result-document>.
I'm in the midst of a significant refactor of this code and I'm wondering if there's a better approach to this general problem of generating multiple result documents from a hierarchy where the natural way to process the hierarchy would be top-down, starting a new result document for each descendant that generates one? This comes up in typical "bursting" processes, where you're taking a single hierarchical XML document and generating multiple result documents from it, reflecting the hierarchy of the markup.
My approach has always been the above two-phase approach: process the input document to produce a single-document result with the document boundaries identified and then process that non-hierarchically in order to produce the result documents.
This works fine but adds complexity to the business logic.
Is there some alternative approach that would be either less complex or easier to understand or implement? How do other people address the limitation on nested xsl:result-document?
Thanks,
Eliot
bbbbb Eliot Kimber, Owner Contrext, LLC http://contrext.com
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