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Re: [xsl] Grouping a List into A Grid Structure

2008-06-23 02:31:16

On 06 23, 08, at 4:38 PM, Florent Georges wrote:


I tried to extrapolate the exact rules to transform between those two
formats, but I failed to do so.  Could you please explain a bit
further?

  By the way, at first glance, it seems strange to want to loose
structure, from a more structured to less structured XML format.
Usually the question is the other way around.  But this is maybe
because I failed to see the relation between the two formats.

  Regards,

--drkm

I'm using the data for an XML workflow in InDesign. The main idea is to convert the list into a somewhat linear structure so that items are group according to order in which they appeared in the original list. Somewhat like a table, where there is a column for each list.

I added a wrapper element for the grouping that i want to achieve, to make it clearer:

<root>
        <list>
                <group order="1st">
                        <item type="a">list 1 item 1</item>
                        <item type="a">list 2 item 1</item>
                        <item type="a">list 3 item 1</item>
                </group>
                <group order="1st">
                        <item type="b">list 1 item 2</item>
                        <item/>
                        <item/>
                </group>
                <group order="1st">
                        <item/>
                        <item type="b">list 2 item 2</item>
                        <item type="b">list 3 item 2</item>
                </group>
                <group order="1st">
                        <item/>
                        <item type="b">list 2 item 3</item>
                        <item type="b">list 3 item 3</item>
                </group>
                <group order="1st">
                        <item/>
                        <item type="b">list 2 item 4</item>
                        <item/>
                </group>
        </list>
</root>

I need the empty item element for ease of reverting back to the original structure.

I hope this clears my problem a bit.

-- Jeff




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