[xsl] Re: cleanup of <div>-elements

["Piez, Wendell A. (Fed) wendell.piez@xxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Monika,

The reason Chris asks his question is that this will impact how good your
solution can be.

In XSLT it is often easy to implement if it is easy to define. The question
here is whether you  can easily and deterministically distinguish between a
div element that should become a p, and one that should stay a div. Answer
that question and the code is straightforward.

A rule to do this might be something like "any div that has a child `sub`, `a`
or untagged text becomes a p, while any other div (containing only the blocks)
stays a div".

But how well this works depends on your case. One reason we use schemas to
validate!

Regards, Wendell

From: Chris Papademetrious christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 11:40 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] Re: cleanup of <div>-elements

Hi Monika,

Will the content between headings always be limited to known "block-level"
element types (p, ol, ul, etc.)?


  *   Chris

From: Madlik, Monika (LNG-VIE)
monika.madlik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:monika.madlik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, February 27, 2023 11:31 AM
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Subject: [xsl] cleanup of <div>-elements

Hi,

I have a problem with an XML-file that has to be converted.

I get XML-files that are semi-structured. So I have the h1/h2-information in
it and also tables, lists, ...
Paragraphs are tagged with <p> - but not always. Sometimes <p> is missing and
instead of it a weird construct of <div>-elements is tagged around texts and
other elements.

Is there a possibility to unravel this div-constructs without loosing texts
and structure? I need to have the element <p> around texts and markup for i.e.
strong text or italic text, ...

My problem is, that the div-elements could appear in any form and any depth
and it's also possible that many div-elements are wrapped around other
div-elements.

Example-XML:
<root>
              <h1>...</h1>
              <p>...</p>
              <ul>
                            <li>...</li>
                            <li>...</li>
              </ul>
              <div>
                            <h1>...</h1>
                            <h2>...</h2>
                            <p>...</p>
                            <h2>...</h2>
                            <p>...</p>
                            <h1>...</h1>
                            <p>...</p>
                            <h2>...</h2>
                            <p>...</p>
                            <div>
                                          <h1>...</h1>
                                          <div>...<sup><a href="#footnote-9"
id="9" rel="footnote">[9]</a></sup></div>
                            </div>
                            <div>
                                          <br/> ... <strong>...</strong>
...<sup><a href="#footnote-10" id="10" rel="footnote">[10]</a></sup>
                                          <div>
                                                         <h1>...</h1>
                                          </div>
                            </div>
                            <p>...</p>
              </div>
</root>

The yellow marked text should look like this after my transformation:
<h1>...</h1>
<p>...<sup><a href="#footnote-9" id="9" rel="footnote">[9]</a></sup></p>
<p><br/> ... <strong>...</strong> ...<sup><a href="#footnote-10" id="10"
rel="footnote">[10]</a></sup></p>
<h1>...</h1>


Thanks a lot,
Monika

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