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Re: Joining sibling elements

2005-08-10 14:35:04
Hi, Marcin,

I have worked a bit with WordML, and I generally don't get such cluttered 
output. I suggest that you investigate what you can do to get Word to 
produce more reasonable output. Even at its best, though, WordML tends to 
be very verbose, so I bet you'll want a way to merge the content of 
sibling tags no matter what you can do with Word to improve the source.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)




Marcin Miłkowski <milek_pl(_at_)o2(_dot_)pl> 
08/10/2005 04:00 PM
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Joris Gillis napisał(a):
Tempore 19:49:30, die 08/10/2005 AD, hinc in 
xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com scripsit Marcin Miłkowski 
<milek_pl(_at_)o2(_dot_)pl>:

<b>this</b><b> </b><b>is</b><b> </b><b>bold<text</b>

which should be transformed this:

<b>this is bold text</b>


Here's a stylesheet that will handle this simple scenario:

Thanks, I'll try to extend it to my WordML scenario (your version seems 
to destroy the format and the most annoying parts are still there).

See a sample of the WordML:

<w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>It</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>is</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>an</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>honour</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>to</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>be</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>here</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>in</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>the</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>European</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>Parliament</w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t> </w:t></w:r><w:r><w:rPr><w:sz 
w:val="27"/></w:rPr><w:t>today.</w:t></w:r>

It is a single sentence, and the translator is supposed to translate it 
not in MS Word, but in kind of a specialized XML editor with tags 
visible. The problem is that the task is to join elements <w:t> so the 
challenge is not really to join immediate siblings but to join (you 
might say "compress") same groups of tags to make <w:t> enclose more 
text. If I understand WordML specs the task would be to join <w:t> under 
the condition that <w:r> enclosing adjacent <w:t> elements contains same 
formatting tags.

But from your answer I see that this is possible using XSLT (that was my 
original question) although because of the recursion involved the 
processing would probably take some time.

Thanks again,
                 Marcin


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