At 2009-04-23 16:23 -0400, Hintz, David L wrote:
Now I see that I over-simplified the problem. The XSLT also has to
suppress any <a1> that is not paired with an <a2>.
Ouch. You didn't say that.
So, I'm not sure the grouping works in your example since there
could be two <a1/> elements that are in the group that ends with
<a2/>. But, if you specify:
<xsl:for-each-group select="*"
group-starting-with="a1"
group-ending-with="a2">
will that consider "<a1/><a1/><a2/>" a group?
Yes, it would, so it would not find the isolated <a1/>.
So you want to report any a1 or a2 that does not satisfy the
bastardized regex syntax of (a1,[^a1|a2]*,a2)?
I think that can be done with nested groups as shown below with some
augmented data added to your original posting.
I hope this helps!
. . . . . . . . Ken
T:\ftemp>type hintz.xml
<test>
<a1/>
<a2/>
<a1/>
<a2/>
<b/>
<c/>
<a2/>
<d/>
<a1/>
<e/>
<a1/>
<f/>
<a2/>
<g/>
</test>
T:\ftemp>xslt2 hintz.xml hintz.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<a1/>
<a2/>
<a1/>
<a2/>
<!--Missing paired a1-->
<b/>
<c/>
<a2/>
<d/>
<a1/>
<e/>
<!--Missing paired a2-->
<a1/>
<f/>
<a2/>
<g/>
T:\ftemp>type hintz.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="test">
<xsl:for-each-group select="*"
group-starting-with="a1">
<xsl:for-each-group select="current-group()"
group-ending-with="a2">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="exists(current-group()/self::a1) =
exists(current-group()/self::a2)">
<xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="current-group()/self::a1">
<xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/>
<xsl:comment>Missing paired a2</xsl:comment><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:comment>Missing paired a1</xsl:comment><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
<xsl:copy-of select="current-group()"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>
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