XSLT Inferencing

[DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Given an arbitrary, valid XML document,
is it at all reasonable to use XSLT to 
analyse the document and make a fair
guess at which elements are containers,
which are atomic etc?

e.g. The sort of logic I'm getting at 
might be:
Total element count=100
element x contains 80 descendants
none of which hold pcdata,
hence its likely to be a container.
element y is atomic and first child of
element x, hence likely to be a title.
element 'para' occurs 38 times with
PCDATA content, hence likely to
be a paragraph. I'm loathe to use
element names for other than basics.

Unknowns might be reported as:
Element z has only 3 children,
a 'candidate' container:

Overall objective would be to 
do an initial analysis along these
lines, then manually finish off,
to permit transormation into HTML.

I'm hoping that a stylesheet might
break the back of the work before
handing off to a human.

Any feedback appreciated.
regards, DaveP


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