Hi, all!
I've learned a lot from reading the traffic here. At the moment, I've got a
problem
that I feel I could almost solve on my own, if I had enough time -- I hope
it will
be an easy one.
My input (and output) is essentially XHTML (actually OEB, but they're
almost identical). It has
a series of <p> elements, and in two specific cases, I need to convert the
<p> elements
to <li> elements. Those cases are:
(1) when the <p> element starts with a <span> with the contents "➤ "
(yes, that's a character reference), and
(2) when the <p> element starts with a <span> with the contents
"&(!!char1!!); " (that string exactly)
In both of these cases, I need to replace the <p> element with an <li> element
and delete the child <span> element entirely.
Perhaps the more difficult part of this is that I also would like to take a
series of
such elements and surround the entire series with a <ul> </ul> element
structure.
So, basically, I'm trying to find paragraphs that should be list items and
setting up
the appropriate list and list item structure.
I know I should start with the identity transform structure, since I don't
want to change
anything else in my input (at least not yet). I've gotten that from the FAQ
site, and I've
got that set up in my stylesheet. Now I need (I think) something to iterate
through the
paragraphs that satisfy one or the other of the above requirements (perhaps
for-each?)
along with some sort of XPath expression. That's where I'm feeling foggy.
If I can get this going, I'd get extra credit (no, this is not a homework
assignment -- just
an expression) if I could also handle lists inside of lists. Those seem to
have the
<span> contents of "𐁣 " and I'd like to end up with the correct
XHTML structure
of
<li>....
<ul>
<li>...</li>
...
</ul>
</li>
etc.
I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions or advice. Thank you very much!
--Chris
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