Re: [xsl] Grouping issue - multiple page break locations

[Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Francis Norton wrote:

> <something excessively complicated>

this solution solves the same two problems but without the unnecessary 
complexity of my first clumsy effort

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

 <xsl:template match="book">
   <book>
     <!-- find all the pages, ignore how they're nested in each other 
or in paras -->
     <xsl:apply-templates select="descendant::page"/>
   </book>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="page">
   <!-- create a page element -->
   <page number="{@number}">
     <!-- and turn any continuation text into a new paragraph -->
     <xsl:if test="normalize-space(following-sibling::text()) != ''">
       <para>
         <xsl:value-of select="following-sibling::text()"/>
       </para>
     </xsl:if>
     <!-- find all the paragraphs for this page, which could be 
children or following elements -->
     <xsl:apply-templates select="(child::para | 
following::para)[preceding::page[1]/@number = current()/@number]"/>
   </page>
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="para">
   <para>
     <!-- only print out first text node, in case of embedded page 
element -->
     <xsl:value-of select="child::text()[1]" />
   </para>
 </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

That's better!

Francis.


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