Re: [xsl] Fine tuning a template match

["Jay Bryant" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Trevor,

I sympathize, as I am doing FrameMaker-to-DocBook for my current client.

If I understand correctly, you want to narrow the XRefs within tables. If
so, could you add [ancstor::TABLE]:

<!-- hyperlink targets in rows -->
<xsl:template
match="A[ancestor::TABLE][@ID][not(@CLASS='XRef')][not(ancestor::FOOTNOTES)]
">

That would ensure that this template matches only A elements that somewhere
within tables.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Trevor Nicholls" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 10:56 PM
Subject: [xsl] Fine tuning a template match


> Hi
>
> I am trying to transform some FrameMaker-generated XML that contains lots
of
> tables. The tables optionally include a set of titles, and these titles
are
> usually wrapped in a caption element - but sometimes the caption element
> also includes all the table rows :-(
>
> Scattered "randomly" through the tables we have <A id=> elements and my
> requirement is to process all title-related <A> elements before the table,
> and all row-related <A> elements within their row. There are <A id=>
> elements elsewhere in the document, hence some of the conditions in the
> template which is designed to process them.
>
> The following extract successfully identifies the table types and the <A>
> elements to be processed at the head of the tables:
> ==============
> <!-- tables -->
> <!-- some tables have one caption child and multiple row children-->
> <xsl:template match="TABLE[CAPTION and ROW]">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="CAPTION//A[@ID]" mode="tblhd"/>
> <xsl:element name="table">...</xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- others have all the rows inside the caption -->
> <!-- in this case the title is wrapped in a titlelist -->
> <xsl:template match="TABLE[CAPTION/ROW]">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="CAPTION/TableTitleList//A[@ID]" mode="tblhd"
/>
> <xsl:element name="table">...</xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- and others have no caption at all -->
> <xsl:template match="TABLE">
> <xsl:element name="table">...</xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> ...
>
> <!-- hyperlink targets in headings -->
> <xsl:template match="A[@ID]" mode="tblhd">
> ...
> </xsl:template>
>
> <!-- hyperlink targets in rows -->
> <xsl:template
match="A[@ID][not(@CLASS='XRef')][not(ancestor::FOOTNOTES)]">
> ...
> </xsl:template>
> ==============
>
> As it stands this last template which matches all ID'ed "A" elements in
> tables causes these elements to be processed twice - once by the moded
> template and once by the standard template, so that the XML generated for
a
> hyperlink target appears both before the <table> element and once again
> inside it. So I need to fine tune the final template somehow: I need to
> exclude the pre-table context from the un-moded template. Does that make
> sense?
>
> Cheers
> Trevor