Hi Mike,
Can you please post this approach in more detail. I am not
able to find anything about it on google.
Since you insist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/play">
<play>
<xsl:apply-templates select="scene" />
</play>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="scene">
<scene name="{.}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::character[1]"/>
</scene>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="character">
<character name="{.}">
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::line]"/>
</character>
<xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[self::character|self::scene][1][self::character
]"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="line">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::*[1][self::line]"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I call the technique "sibling recursion". It's more concise than most
recursive code, because it's self-terminating: you don't need to test
explicitly whether there are more items to process, because apply-templates
does that automatically for you.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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