Transforming XML Blockquotes - Mixed Content 14744 by: Edward Bryant
14745 by: James Fuller 14746 by: Edward Bryant
I am having a lot of trouble transforming XML blockquotes that are
structurally and grammatically correct (i.e, as child elements to a
parent paragraph tag) into XHTML that will be displayed correctly by
a browser. Because of two separate IE6 bugs that prevent a blockquote
from being structured as the child of a paragraph, I pretty much need
the XSL output to be
<p>Yadda yadda yadda:</p> <blockquote><p>blah blah
blah</p></blockquote> <p class="cont">yackity yack</p>
However, the XML is structured like this:
<p>Yadda yadda yadda: <blockquote>blah blah blah</blockquote> yackity
yack</p>
So, my first thought was to make a conditional statement that would
do this but I am having a lot of trouble constructing it. I can not
locate any information on a conditional statement that would test
whether one element (p) with mixed conternt contained another element
(blockquote). I also am having trouble with a way to split up the p
tag's text into the pre-blockquote and post-blockquote strings. Even
with the above problems, I haven't even touched on the problems that
a paragraph with multiple blockquotes would cause.
As Jim noted, I was asking the same question earlier in the day (how
weird is that). I've still not managed to get a XSLT 1.0 solution (which
I need), but in XSLT 2.0 it is really easy. There is even an example in
the recommendation that mutatis mutandis works out of the box:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#d5e20377> "Grouping Alternating Sequences
of Elements".
-dan
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