Re: [xsl] How to render TEI <div*>s with chapter-like pagination?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James,

Much of your problem may be in trying to handle arbitrary TEI. The DTD is 
loose enough, as you are finding, to make for quite a challenge in the 
general case. :->

Most (or let's just say all) TEI will not use the full tag set, and it'll 
be considerably easier to write stylesheets to handle the TEI subset used 
in a particular project. If there's any way you can do that, consider it.

You might also find splitting your transform into two passes helpful. First 
pass to normalize (e.g. makes all numbered divs into plain divs; XSLT 
doesn't need the numbering!), and a second pass to provide the formatting. 
The formatting stylesheet can accordingly be much tidier.

This is all because there's no getting around the problem of specifying, 
for example, which elements other than the divs should be pulled in with 
them, which should be given their own page sequences, which should be 
grouped, etc.

It's really beginning to sound like a grouping problem. This too is 
tractable -- but will be much more so if your source is normalized into a 
tighter model. (Grouping problems need tight models!)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:37 PM 4/10/2003, you wrote:
> Not quite. Some the stuff before the <div>s should
> definitely go in its own page sequence, but others
> maybe should not. However many of the elements in
> between and after the <div>s -- but not all -- do not
> belong in their own page sequence at all, but in the
> page sequence of the preceding <div*>.
>
> I'm beginning to see why the TEI stylesheets had yet
> to tackle this. Uy!


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