[xsl] Bibliography author repetition handling

Subject: [xsl] Bibliography author repetition handling
From: "Charles Muller acmuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 06:24:41 -0000
In a TEI <biblStruct> bibliography that uses biblStruct/*/author/surname (etc), I have managed to write the code that checks if the author name in the prior <biblStruct> is the same, in which case the output is ---. rather than the author's name. It works fine, but I'm running into a problem where there the first author name is the same as that of the prior <biblStruct> entry, but there are also multiple authors, in which case the full name should be printed out.

I thought that one way I might resolve this is to test if the number of authors in the prior entry is the same as this one, but I can't get it to work. I also don't know if this is even the best way of handling this. The XML is like this: (present output here: http://www.acmuller.net/articles-shisou.html)

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<biblStruct xml:id="Muller2017"><analytic><author><surname>Muller</surname><forename>A. Charles</forename></author><author><surname>Shimoda</surname><forename>Masahiro</forename></author><author><surname>Nagasaki</surname><forename>Kiyonori</forename></author><title level="a"><ref target="articles/2017-10-sat-taisho.pdf">The SAT TaishE


Text Database: A Brief History</ref></title></analytic><monogr><title level="m">Reinventing the Tripitaka: Transformation of the Buddhist Canon in Modern East Asia</title><editor><surname>Wu</surname><forename>Jiang</forename></editor><editor><surname>Wilkinson</surname><forename>Greg</forename></editor><imprint><pubPlace>Lanham, MD</pubPlace><biblScope unit="pp">175b185</biblScope><publisher>Lexington Books</publisher><date>2017</date></imprint></monogr></biblStruct>

<biblStruct><analytic><author><surname>Muller</surname><forename>A. Charles</forename></author><title level="a"><ref target="articles/2017-05-20-new-treatise-review.pdf">Xiong Shili and the New Treatise: A review discussion
of Xiong Shili, <title level="m">New Treatise on the Uniqueness of Consciousness</title>, an annotated translation by John Makeham</ref></title></analytic><monogr><title level="j">Sophia</title><imprint><biblScope unit="vol">Online First</biblScope><date>2017</date><biblScope unit="pp">1b4</biblScope></imprint></monogr></biblStruct>


<biblStruct><analytic><author><surname>Muller</surname><forename>A. Charles</forename></author><title level="a"><ref target="articles/2017-05-01-JKR-04_8.1muller.pdf">The Meaning of the Explicit and Inexplicit Approaches in WEnhyobs <title level="m">System of the Two Hindrances</title> (<title level="m">Ijang E-i</title> d: ig>))</ref></title></analytic><monogr><title level="j">Journal of Korean Religions</title><imprint><biblScope unit="vol">8</biblScope><biblScope unit="issue">1</biblScope><date>2017</date><biblScope unit="pp">63b91</biblScope></imprint></monogr></biblStruct>

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and the relevant portion of the present XSLT is like this (new dysfunctional code commented out)


<xsl:template match="author">
<xsl:variable name="prev-autnum" select="count(preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/author)"/>
<xsl:variable name="this-autnum" select="count(*)"/>


<xsl:choose>
<!-- <xsl:when test="$prev-autnum = $this-autnum">
<xsl:choose>-->
<xsl:when
test="preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/editor[1] = . or preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/author[1] = .">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/author = .">
<xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/editor = .">
<xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/*/author = .">
<xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text>----.&#160;</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:when>
<!--</xsl:choose>
</xsl:when>-->
<xsl:otherwise>
.....




TIA,

Chuck


--------------------------- A. Charles Muller

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Faculty of Letters
University of Tokyo
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