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Paul Medina

Subject: descriptive? node
Author: Paul Medina
Date: 23 Feb 2007 09:48 PM

Hi all,

I've been struggling with an XSLT project. I've got the basics down but I'm having trouble with the following XML to HTML conversion.

Sample XML

<document>
<item>
<pardef id="1" leftmargin="1in"/>
<par def="1">
<run>
<font style="italic" color="blue" size="8pt"/>
some text 1
</run>
</par>
<par>
<run>
<font weight="bold" size="8pt"/>
some text 2
</run>
</par>
<pardef id="2" align="center"/>
<par def="2">
<run>
<font size="8pt"/>
some text 3
</run>
</par>
<par def="1">
<run>
<font size="8pt" color="red"/>
some text 4
</run>
</par>
</item>
</document>

Each pardef node sets up a definition for each par node that has the same def attribute value as the matching pardef id attribute value and any subsequent par node without a def attribute up until either another pardef node or a par def="x" node is encountered.

So in the above xml the par def="2" node should be centered when converted to HTML then the following par def="1" node should have a left margin of "1in" as specified in the pardef id="1" descriptive node.

I tried capturing the id of a pardef node in a variable and then comparing each par that I came across. I would apply the attributes to each par node up until either the def id attribute changed or another pardef node was encountered . This would seem to work but unforutenately xsl:variable can't be re-assigned. The stylesheet I tried is below. It should produce the following HTML:

<span style="margin-left: 10px; font-size:8pt; font-style:italic; color:blue;">
some text 1
</span><p/>
<span style="margin-left: 10px; font-size:8pt; font-weight:bold;">
some text 2
</span><p/>
<span style="text-align: center; font-size:8pt;">
some text 3
</span><p/>
<span style="margin-left: 10px font-size:8pt;">
some text 4
</span>

I'd appreciate it if anyone can provide some insight.

Thanks.

stylesheet snippet

<xsl:variable name="parDefNodes" select="//pardef"/>

<xsl:for-each select="document/item/par">
<span>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="@def">
<xsl:variable name="id" select="@def"/>
<xsl:for-each select="$parDefNodes">
<xsl:if test="$id=@id">
<xsl:attribute>
<xsl:if test="@align">
assign attribute
</xsl:if>
.
.test for other attributes
.
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:apply-templates match="run"/>

</span>
</xsl:for-each>
.
.
.

the run template handles the application of the font attributes and outputs the par node content.

(Deleted User)

Subject: descriptive? node
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 26 Feb 2007 08:41 AM

Hi Paul,
this is a generic XSLT question, but this is a support forum for Stylus Studio; you can get better answers on a XSLT mailing list like the one run by Mulberry Tech.

Alberto

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