Thank you, Ken, also for your patient explanations to a newbie who
hasn't yet grasped fully the philosophy which is behind the XSL lexic
and grammar. I'll come to it later.
1st, your XSL snippet does not work out; the output is:
<TABLE>
<TTITLE/>
<TBODY/>
</TABLE>
I accept your gentle offer and attach the code of the input (an XML
export from a non-XML Adobe FrameMaker file) and the XSLT file to this
mail (see below).
2nd, let me come to your comments, the purpose of which, I guess, was to
make me understand once and for all. So let me try:
<Q> <xsl:template match="TABLE">
<Q> <TABLE>
<Q> ...
<Q> <xsl:if test="TROW/TH">
You are looking here for all <TH> that are children of a <TROW>;
however, if I know that all <TH> will always be in a <TROW>, I could
write also <xsl:if test="TH">, couldn't I? Or would this imply here that
I would be looking for <TH> that are children of <TABLE>?
<Q> <xsl:apply-templates select="TROW[TH]"/>
A similar expression I have found in M. Kay's "XSLT P.R.2" at the item
"PredicateExpr". This is not where I would have looked for it, simply
because I've never heard the term "PredicateExpr"...
<Q> <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy>
I would have written:
<TROW><xsl:apply-templates/></TROW>
but I assume it would have been the same. Correct?
<Q> > <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
<Q> > </TGROUP></xsl:text>
<Q> The above is expressly *not* the purpose of
<Q> disable-output-escaping= ...
I have used it as well to produce the DOCTYPE -- would that be ok?
<Q> A number of things that I have hopefully illustrated for you above.
Once again, thank you,
- Matthias
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Attachments
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1) Input file
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
href="D:\Daten\NEXUS\XML_FMaker\XSLT\NEXUS_XWare.xsl"?>
<XML>
<TITLE/>
<H1-H1>
<A ID="pgfId-492742"/>Descrizione funzionale</H1-H1>
<H2-H2>
<A ID="pgfId-507147"/>Uso previsto</H2-H2>
<A2-INSET-Source>
<A ID="pgfId-647166"/>Uso previsto della macchina descritta nel
presente manuale di istruzioni e la depurazione delle acque di scarico
urbane e/o industriali.</A2-INSET-Source>
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
<Table-TITLE>
<A ID="pgfId-647169"/>
Processi di depurazione</Table-TITLE>
</CAPTION>
<ROW>
<TH ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1">
<Table-HEADING>
<A ID="pgfId-647171"/>
Processi/sostanze</Table-HEADING>
</TH>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1">
<Table-PARA>
<A ID="pgfId-647173"/>
Concentrazione di fanghi, sabbia od altri solidi in sospensione delle
acque</Table-PARA>
</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1">
<Table-PARA>
<A ID="pgfId-647175"/>
Concentrazione di sabbie od altri solidi granulosi in sospensione nell'
acqua</Table-PARA>
</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1">
<T2-Table-PARA>
<A ID="pgfId-647177"/>
Separazione di solidi grossolani trascinati da una corrente d'
acqua</T2-Table-PARA>
</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1">
<Table-PARA>
<A ID="pgfId-647179"/>
Raccolta dei surnatanti presenti sulla superficie delle
acque</Table-PARA>
</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWSPAN="1" COLSPAN="1">
<Table-PARA>
<A ID="pgfId-647181"/>
Espulsione dei gas o vapori in sospensione nelle acque</Table-PARA>
</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE>
</XML>
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2) XSL
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="XML">
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><!DOCTYPE NEXUS
SYSTEM
"D:\Daten\NEXUS\XML_FMaker\DTDs\NEXUS	
5;XWare.dtd">
</xsl:text>
<NEXUS>
<HEAD>
<META title="" category="" product=""
company="" project=""
version="" author="" translator="" mod-by="" mod-date="" state=""
language="" keywords="" copyright="" doc-no=""/>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</BODY>
</NEXUS>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="H1-H1">
<H type="h-1">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</H>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="H2-H2">
<H type="h-2">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</H>
</xsl:template>
<!-- INSETs shall be boxed later on -->
<xsl:template match="A2-INSET-Source">
<P type="p-10">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</P>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="TABLE">
<TABLE>
<TTITLE>
<xsl:value-of select="Table-TITLE"/>
</TTITLE>
<xsl:if test="TROW/TH">
<THEAD>
<xsl:apply-templates select="TROW[TH]"/>
</THEAD>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="TROW/TF">
<TFOOT>
<xsl:apply-templates select="TROW[TF]"/>
</TFOOT>
</xsl:if>
<TBODY>
<xsl:apply-templates select="TROW[CELL]"/>
</TBODY>
</TABLE>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="TROW">
<xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="TH | CELL | TF">
<TDATA>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</TDATA>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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