Re: [xsl] (text processing) lexical context

Hello Nicolas,

<root>
This is the <w>first</w> <i>sentence</i>. This is the <w>second</w>
<i>sentence</i>. This is the <w>third</w> <i>sentence</i>.
</root>

you have really bad structured XML. Where should the processor know from, where a sentence ends and a new one starts? Can you always use '.' as marker?

I tried with a key-based solution (all nodes will be collected by the id of the text-node with the next '.'):

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:key name="sentences" match="node()" use="generate-id(following-sibling::text()[contains(., '.')][1])"/>

<xsl:template match="root"> <html> <ol> <xsl:apply-templates select="text()[contains(., '.')]" mode="end-of-sentence"/> </ol> </html> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()" mode="end-of-sentence"> <li> <xsl:apply-templates select="key('sentences', generate-id(.))" mode="rest-of-sentence"/> <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(., '.')"/> <xsl:text>.</xsl:text> </li> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="node()" mode="rest-of-sentence">
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="text()[contains(., '.')]" mode="rest-of-sentence">
    <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(., '.')"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The output with Xalan:

<html>
<ol>
<li>
This is the <w>first</w>
<i>sentence</i> without a comma.</li>
<li> This is the <w>second</w>

<i>sentence</i>.</li>
<li> This is the <w>third</w>
<i>sentence</i>.</li>
</ol>
</html>

I don't know whether the solution is perfect. It's a bit difficult to see any errors. But I would start with changing the terrible XML.

Regards,

Joerg

would be formatted so that the list would look like:

<html> <ol> <li>first: This is the first sentence. <li>Second: This is the <w>second sentence. <li>Third: This is the third sentence. </ol> </html>
But I can't figure out how I can select the text surrounding the <w>
element without using <xsl:value-of.../>, which does not allow me to
process the following element...
i.e., I get

<html> <ol> <li>first: This is the first sentence. <li>Second: This is the <w>second sentence. <li>Third: This is the third sentence. </ol> </html>

and the element is lost...
And I can't do <xsl template match="substring(...)"> because substring
is not a DOM node.
Help: is there a way to process substrings or stg?

N. Mazziotta

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