Dear List,
I'm having an issue and I'm not even sure where to start.
I have a document in TEI consisting of a group of several versions of
the same text, divided into segments (<seg>) and numbered (@n). The
numbering is the same in all versions (so <seg n="220.2"> is the same
in text A as in text B). The general structure is:
<group>
<text xml:id="A15">
<seg n="220.2">...</seg>
<seg n="220.3">...</seg>
(etc.)
</text>
<text xml:id="B15">
<seg n="220.2">...</seg>
<seg n="220.3">...</seg>
(etc.)
</text>
</group>
The texts may or may not have all the same segments (so text A may
have seg[(_at_)n='223.1'] and text B may not, or vice versa). In addition
the numbers are not unique to each segment (there may be several segs
in a row with the same number).
Given this, I would like to generate a file that pulls together the
like segments from each text, resulting in something that looks like
this:
<app>
<rdg wit="#A15"><seg n="220.2">...</seg></rdg>
<rdg wit="#B15><seg n="220.2">...</seg></rdg>
(etc.)
</app>
<app>
<rdg wit="#A15"><seg n="220.3">...</seg></rdg>
<rdg wit="#B15><seg n="220.3">...</seg></rdg>
(etc.)
</app>
<app>
<!-- for example, A15 lacks seg[(_at_)n='223.1'] -->
<rdg wit="#B15"><seg n="223.1">...</seg></rdg>
(etc.)
</app>
I suppose this can be done by matching the values of @n (those segs
have the same @n one after the other might be dealt with by counting,
or I could handle them by hand as they aren't numerous). I just have
no idea even where to start with this. My XSLT skills aren't bad but I
don't have too much experience using it to rearrange XML into new
structures.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated!
Dot
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Digital Humanities Observatory (RIA), Regus House, 28-32 Upper
Pembroke Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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http://dho.ie Email: dot(_dot_)porter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com
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