I have a book in a TEI-influenced flavor of XML. It contains many
footnotes, which may themselves contain additional footnotes. These
footnotes are coded inline in the originating text, directly following
their reference:
/publication/chapter/section/div/
<p>Some text here and here<ref type="footnote" target="someid">*</ref>
<note type="footnote" id="someid">
<label id="lsomelabelid">* </label>
<p>Some note text<ref type="footnote" target="anotherid">†</
ref>
<note type="footnote" id="anotherid">
<label id="anotherlabel">†
</label>
<p>A sub note for further reference</p>
</note>
goes here and here and here.
</p>
</note>
. And even more regular text here.
</p>
Side note: I am already using a multi-stage transform on this XML to
convert it to XHTML, so if I need to add another stage, that's just
fine.
What I would like to do is un-nest the notes, such that my output XML
would look more like this:
/publication/chapter/section/
div
div
div
note
note
note
note*
note*
(where asterisks denote formerly nested sub-notes)
Each note would then contain all of its text, refs, and any other
content, but no child notes.
Further complicating this process is the fact that the publication/
chapter/section part of this program cannot be guaranteed -- divs can
live at any level below publication and don't require any sort of
parent besides that.
Can anyone recommend a flexible way to extract these notes and make
them all one level?
Thanks in advance,
Walter
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