RE: [xsl] Counting nodes up to a certain sibling

Mike,

If each row ends with linefeed/carriage return (after the columns), I'd suggest
writing a called template that uses the span space as a delimiter. Keep parsing
the supplied line till there there are no longer any span space and content. Or
if you are inclined use something like ant and a regular expression to convert
all span space to something more appropriate.

Mario

Quoting cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com:

A sample of your input would make helping you a good deal easier. Is this
what you're faced with?

&lt;div&gt;
  First column&lt;span&gt; &lt;span&gt;Second column&lt;span&gt; 
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

If not, please give a sample, not a description.
-- 
Charles Knell
cknell(_at_)onebox(_dot_)com - email



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Subject:  [xsl] Counting nodes up to a certain sibling

Hi -

I am transforming an input html doc into an xml formatted output stream.  The
portion of the document I am now working with has been laid out in html as a
set of columns, but instead of using tables they did it by inserting spaces
enclosed within span tags (aaarrrggghhh!).  I am attempting to implement this
simple rule:

for each span tag that includes a space, take all sibling nodes up to the
next span tag and output thes within a single output tag. 

The document is structured such that these will only be text nodes or
formatting nodes like <i> or <b> or <sub>.  I'm having a hell of a time,
however, figuring out how to create a node set that includes only nodes in
between a current span node and its next sibling span node.  I've been trying
to work with the position() function, but in order to identify the next span
node, I have to do it with an axis expression and a filter and then
position() only tells me the position of the node with respect to the
filtered set.  I need to identify the position of a node matching my
characteristics in an unfiltered parent node set.  Can't seem to figure out
how to do it.  Is there a way?

Thanks for any help anyone can offer.  If this has been answered before, I
apologize.  I've spent an awful lot of time looking for it.

Regards,

Mike  

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