I am able to get a list of the titles without
a problem. I want to build a table from the
titles and file name so I can create another
conversion on another group of documents have
have the titles embedded and link back to the
individual files which are well-formed.
I want to get a listing such as:
<filename>foo1.xml</filename> <title>This is a title</title>
I want to use this to put links into another document:
<p>... see <xref href="foo1.xml">This is a title</xref><p>
I am grabbing the entity filename and title as a way of
including links in another document (which I can change).
I actually did this once before with a file that had IDs and it was a
really simple process. I created an Omnimark script from the XSLT since
XSLT isn't the best 'search and replace' program. I was hoping to do the
same thing this time but without ID's it is proving difficult.
Betty
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Wendell Piez wrote:
Betty,
If the title within each file is in the same place every time (or even if
not), you can retrieve it by adapting the method David showed:
document('',$node)/*/title
will get you the title element children of the document element of the file
containing $node.
I don't know how far that gets you, however. But it shouldn't be hard to
build a lookup table to get from this title (assuming it's unique) to a
file name or some such.
Note that this also assumes each file is a complete well-formed XML
document, not merely a parsed entity (which can have more than one
top-level element).
Cheers,
Wendell
At 02:29 PM 10/23/2003, you wrote:
Thanks! I think I will have to use XSLT 2 or another language. I am
building a key for another document to point to locations in the external
document.
The data files don't belong to me so I have to point to information within
the full document without the advantage of ID's. The only thing that
really makes the data unique is the filenames and the titles within each
file of the entities.
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