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Subject: Re: BOUNCE xsl-list@l...: Admin request of type /\bremove\b/i at line 1
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:12:39 +0000
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Kurt,
The "Gordian knot" solution is to simply select the elements you know you
want, and have the stylesheet provide the intervening text:
<xsl:template match="book" mode="reference">
<xsl:apply-templates select="title"/>
<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
<xsl:apply-templates select="author"/>
</xsl:template>
This approach assumes that you want the punctuation to be consistent, so it
is fair to control it in the stylesheet rather than pick it up from the
source. (This doesn't seem like an unfair assumption in your case.)
Implicitly it makes the argument that "hey, those commas are really markup
(delimiting meaningful snippets of data), not really data at all, so the
stylesheet doesn't have to respect them." Of course, if this is not the
case (if the punctuation is actually significant as data), you have to do
something like the solution Jeni provided.
It's interesting that punctuation, in print, often inhabits that grey zone
between data and markup....
Regards,
Wendell
Simple Example
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DTD
<!ELEMENT book (#PCDATA | title | author | date)* >
<!ELEMENT title|author|date (#PCDATA) >
XML
<book><title>My Book</title>, <author>Me</author>,
<date>01-01-01</date></book>
HTML (main section)
<u>My Book</u>, Me, (01-01-01)
HTML (reference section)
<u>My Book</u>, Me
At 09:28 AM 1/11/01 -0500, Jeni wrote:
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From: "Devlin, Kurt" <Kurt.Devlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Xsl-List (E-mail)" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Remove PCDATA prior to a specified element
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 10:52:24 -0600
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I need to remove some PCDATA prior to a specified element. I am rendering my
XML to HTML. In the main section I want all the information shown. In the
table of references that gets generated at the end of the document, I want
to strip certain elements and the PCDATA that appears directly before that
element.
Currently, I have templates that ignore the elements that I'm not
interested, but I'm not sure how to get to the PCDATA before this element.
I have created a simple example of what I want to do below. In this example
it would be simple to just look at the elements that I do want, but in my
real project there are too many elements that I do want. I really only want
to add a couple of templates to handle ignoring the element and its
preceding PCDATA.
Thanks in advance for any help with this.
Regards,
Kurt
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Simple Example
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DTD
<!ELEMENT book (#PCDATA | title | author | date)* >
<!ELEMENT title|author|date (#PCDATA) >
XML
<book><title>My Book</title>, <author>Me</author>,
<date>01-01-01</date></book>
HTML (main section)
<u>My Book</u>, Me, (01-01-01)
HTML (reference section)
<u>My Book</u>, Me
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