I have an XML file that is somewhat unprofessional in design,
because it does this (essentially)
<quoteBegin/> this is a quote
<p> with a paragraph inside </p>
<p> and another, but the quote ends here <quoteEnd/> </p>
There's nothing unprofessional about this if the structure really isn't
hierarchic. But it does make it difficult to handle. Jeni Tennison has
doing a fair bit of work with parallel markup structures, there may be
some tricks on her web site.
I want to replace in the output the quoteBegin with a <font>
tag, and the <quoteEnd> with a closing font tag (this is
rendering to old HTML, so I am going to ignore, for the
moment, the mal-formattedness of this in XHTML). However, the
XSL parser won't let me do this "End tag 'font' does not
match the start tag...". Is there a way around this in XSL?
No, the result of the transformation is by definition a tree; it has to
be hierarchic, and this means that the serialization of the result will
always be well-formed. XSLT instructions don't output tags, they output
nodes in the result tree.
Michael Kay
Software AG
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