Re: [xsl] targeting the 'first' instance of the same element in variable structures

["Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>How about <xsl:template match="(div/descendant::head)[1]"> ?

same result as Martin's solution, alas.

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 1:08b/PM David Birnbaum djbpitt@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How about <xsl:template match="(div/descendant::head)[1]"> ?
>
> On Jul 2, 2024, at 7:04b/AM, Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> o;?
> At first Martin's solution  <xsl:template match="(div//head)[1]"> looked
> like it would work. But then I started to test the various documents I have
> to work with, in particular at the most problematic. Below is an actual
> fragment, but I've put it in this Fiddle
>
<https://martin-honnen.github.io/cheerpj3-saxonhe12-fiddle/?code=%3C%3Fxml+ve
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ode-type=XSLT&input-type=XML>.
> As we can see it matched two items...it should only match the first. In
> bold below are what the template matched, in red bold what should be
> exclusively matched.
>
>   <div xml:id="michael-meld-dist-div-5Ehm2la0">
>     <div xml:id="michael-meld-dist-div-1k784804" type="fulltext">
>       <div xml:id="michael-meld-dist-div-23IEC0ec" type="prologus">
>
> *<head>PREFATIO<note type="source">Indicem analyticum, qui ex vetusta
> exemplari Ms. in ceteris editionibus hoc loco legitur, ad
>    calcem  voluminis tomi rejecimus.</note>          </head>*
>           <p xml:id="michael-meld-dist-p-k78i0214">Quisquis ad divine
> pagine lectionem erudiendus accedit, in principio considerare debet, que
> sit illius                Scripture materia, circa quam versatur ejus
> tractatus. Est autem illius
>                principalis materia, opus restaurationis.</p>
>           <div xml:id="michael-meld-dist-div-02847i24"
> sameAs="michaelis_0001" type="distinctio">
>         *     <head>Opus conditionis et restaurationis</head>*
>              <p xml:id="michael-meld-dist-p-0M0t4368">Sunt enim duo opera
> : opus conditionis, et opus restaurationis. Opus conditionis est, quo
> factum                 est ut essent, que non erant; opus restaurationis
> est, per quod meliorata sunt, que
>                perierant. Opere conditionis factus est mundus cum suis
> elementis; opere restaurationis, Verbi incarnatio cum suis sacramentis.
</p>
>           </div>
>           <div xml:id="michael-meld-dist-div-qA5X66Ks"
> sameAs="michaelis_0002" type="distinctio">
>              <head>Sacre Scripture prestantia</head>
>              <p xml:id="michael-meld-dist-p-E1v5wA1j">Ex quo manifestum
> est, quod Scriptura cunctis aliis precellit, tum materie dignitate, tum
>                              profunditate, et subtilitate. Et si quis
> diligenter attendit, potest percipere quod omnes
>              artes, tam liberales, quam naturales, ei tanquam domine
> famulantur. </p>
>         </div>
>      </div>
>     </div>
>    </div>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 12:41b/PM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 02/07/2024 12:34, Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> Dear XSL list,
>>
>> I am trying to target a specific <head> which can appear nested within a
>> variable number of <div> and  possible <list> elements. In the three
>> examples below I have put in red the <head> element I want to target with
>> the same XSL template. In my way of thinking, it is always the first
>> appearance of <head> no matter how deep or shallow it may be nested. But I
>> am having trouble conceiving a path that can take into account the
variable
>> depth. Any thoughts about how to target this?
>>
>>
>> You can do
>>
>>   <xsl:template match="(div//head)[1]">
>>
>> in XSLT 3 (if the processor is up to it, I think early Saxon releases
>> like 9.8 or 9.9 that are no longer supported, didn't support it, but
>> current releases (11 and 12) certainly do.
>>
>>
>> fiddle link
>>
<https://martin-honnen.github.io/cheerpj3-saxonhe12-fiddle/?code=%3C%3Fxml+ve
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++++++++++++++%3C%2Flist%3E%0A+++++++++++++%3C%2Fdiv%3E%0A+++++++++++++%3Cdiv
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