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Victoria LuSubject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: Victoria Lu
Date: 02 Jun 2009 02:18 PM
Hello,

I need translate a source code attached here as tips.xml.
There are three <tps:context type="Single Page Sight" >. under each of them, I need to break each child <tps:p type="tx1"> to several pieces.

I have a problem to copy everything after <tps:c type="property name"> and text() eg. 'This bona fide patrician...', and before the first <tps:c type="Tip"> into a p tag.
But somehow the first <tps:c type="Tip"> always be copied over, which I have already copied to next lines with a different p type.

What's worng in my code as attched here as tips.xsl? The condition I marked there as '22222--How can I get rid of above extra &lt;tps:c type="Tip"&gt; line?--22222'.

I also attached here a result file tips_xfer.xml.

Would you please help me out?

Thank you sooooo very much,
Victoria


Unknowntips.xml
xml source file

Unknowntips.xsl
xlst file

Unknowntip_xfer.xml
result file

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(Deleted User) Subject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 04 Jun 2009 10:29 AM
Hi Victoria,
the XPath expression you wrote will pick the first Tip node because it selects all the nodes that have at least one Semi-Bold before and one Tip after, and the first Tip is followed by a second one, so it is satisfies such condition.
As you are already using XSLT 2.0, I would use the "between" operator to express your condition, like in this instruction:

<xsl:apply-templates select="tps:p[@type='tx1']/node()[. &gt;&gt; ../tps:c[@type='property name'][1] and . &lt;&lt; ../tps:c[@type='Tip'][1] ]">

This would extract each node that is after the first 'property name' and before the first 'Tip'.

Hope this helps,
Alberto

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Victoria LuSubject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: Victoria Lu
Date: 04 Jun 2009 11:22 AM
Hi Al,

That's what I wanted! So cool!
But I don't want the text() be copied over, which followed the node tps:c[@type='property name'] is "This bona fide patrician palace is still home...".

So I modified your condition to:
<xsl:apply-templates select="tps:p[@type='tx1']/node()[. &gt;&gt; ../text()[preceding-sibling::tps:c[@type='property name'][1]] and . &lt;&lt; ../tps:c[@type='Tip'][1]]">

But it doesn't work. Could you let me know what's wrong?



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(Deleted User) Subject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 04 Jun 2009 11:46 AM
Hi Victoria,
the >> operator works against a single node, so you have to add a [1] after the ../text()[...] expression.

Alberto

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Victoria LuSubject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: Victoria Lu
Date: 04 Jun 2009 12:12 PM
Hi Al,

You are great! Thank you so much!

Here are the results I got:
1. when I added [1] after, the text still copied over;
2. when I changed to [2] after, the text is gone but copied <tps:s/> over which followed the text and I don't wanted it;
3. when I changed [3] after, I got a prefect result.

This would put me on a risky. Sometimes they have a <tps:s/> to follow a text, and sometimes may not. How do I not hard code this [n] there?

Thanks again.


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(Deleted User) Subject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 04 Jun 2009 12:56 PM
Hi Victoria,
if the purpose is to get the first tps:c following the 'property name', you can directly write ../tps:c[@type='property name'][1]/following-sibling::tps:c[1]

Alberto

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Victoria LuSubject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: Victoria Lu
Date: 04 Jun 2009 01:04 PM
That's great idea!

But the first c: <tps:c type="Semi-bold">Doria Pamphilj<tps:s/></tps:c>
wouldn't copy in somhow.

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(Deleted User) Subject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 04 Jun 2009 02:51 PM
In that case we will have to pick as reference the previous node:

../tps:c[@type='property name'][1]/following-sibling::tps:c[1]/preceding-sibling::*[1]

Alberto

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Victoria LuSubject: How do I get rid of 'Tip' node?
Author: Victoria Lu
Date: 04 Jun 2009 03:24 PM
Wow, how prefect that works out!
You are the best! I learnt a lot from you.
I love you, Al and love your little beautiful princess, too!
She's so cute!

Many thanks again, Al!

 
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