Hi Ken,
I really appreciate your code and comments, but after reading it many
times, I can't reach to the bottom of the logic here.
I'm a newbie so forgive my stupid questions.
1. Why do we need the outer most copy element:
<xsl:template match="body">
<xsl:copy>
How does it work in combination with xsl:for-each-group?
2. Can you please explain the group-ending-with selection?
Why do we need *[not(self::p)] ? Doesn't it mean all except p elements?
Thanks, Viente
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:39 PM, G. Ken
Holman<gkholman(_at_)cranesoftwrights(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 2009-06-14 17:53 +0300, Israel Viente wrote:
I am working with Saxon-B9.1 on the command line (XSLT 1.0 or 2.0 are OK).
My input is something like the following:
...
The reault output should be:
Thank you for supplying complete examples to make the job of helping easier.
For every span element that the class<>'chapter' verify that in every
p the last span element text ends with one character of .?"!
(paragraph ending char).
If it does, copy as is to the output.
Otherwise: Move the span elements from the next p to the current one
and remove the next p completely.
I tried doing it with following-sibling & for-each , but I'm not sure
it is the right approach.
That wasn't the approach that came to mind immediately for me. I've learned
over the years that the reach of following-sibling is usually too extensive
to help out in many algorithms.
With the advent of XSLT 2.0 what comes to mind immediately for me for such
cases is grouping. And I think it fits well here, though I am a bit
concerned your requirement may be under-specified. Certainly I could
rewrite your requirement by considering where paragraphs need to be
considered part of the same group when the span movement you need is being
triggered.
The code below groups all of the elements of interest such that the group
always ends in a paragraph with the desired punctuation. Then I simply copy
the first as is and the spans and paragraph white-space of the others. I
didn't know what to do with the NBSP characters of the others and you only
said spans, so I only copied the white-space. Given this is paragraph
content between the spans, perhaps all text nodes should be preserved and
not just indentation. If so, just take the predicate off of the text()
address.
I hope this shows how to look at your problem as a grouping problem.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
T:\ftemp>type viente.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html [<!ENTITY nbsp " ">]>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<body>
<p dir="rtl">
<span class="chapter">line1</span>
</p>
<p dir="rtl"> <br />
<span class="regular">line3.</span>
<span class="italic">line4</span>
<span class="regular">line5."</span>
</p>
<p dir="rtl"> <br />
<span class="regular">line6.</span>
<br />
<span class="regular">line7</span>
</p>
<p dir="rtl"> <br />
<span class="regular">line8.</span>
<span class="regular">line9.</span>
</p>
</body>
</html>
T:\ftemp>call xslt2 viente.xml viente.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><html
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
<body><p dir="rtl">
<span class="chapter">line1</span>
</p><p dir="rtl">Â Â <br />
<span class="regular">line3.</span>
<span class="italic">line4</span>
<span class="regular">line5."</span>
</p><p dir="rtl">Â Â <br />
<span class="regular">line6.</span>
<br />
<span class="regular">line7</span>
<span class="regular">line8.</span>
<span class="regular">line9.</span>
</p></body>
</html>
T:\ftemp>type viente.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
xpath-default-namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="no"/>
<xsl:template match="body">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<xsl:for-each-group select="*"
group-ending-with="*[not(self::p)] |
p[span/@class='chapter'] |
p[matches(span[last()],
'[.?"]$')]">
<!--now the information is grouped by p elements that end as
required-->
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="current-group()[last()]
[self::p][matches(span[last()],'[.?"]$')]">
<!--in a group of p elements that end as required-->
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
<!--preserve the content of the first of these p elements-->
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<!--preserve only the span elements and indentation from the
rest;
(the indentation is needed because this is paragraph
white-space)-->
<xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()[position()>1]/
(text()[not(normalize-space())] |
span)"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<!--in another kind of group so just copy these using identity-->
<xsl:apply-templates select="current-group()"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each-group>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*|node()"><!--identity for all other nodes-->
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>rem Done!
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