Re: Creating a container?

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cheers, jim fuller


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Müller-Hillebrand" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "XSL-List" <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject:  Creating a container?


> Hello,
>
> I am fairly new to XSL but have a special task to do. I'd like to ask
> all experts on the list for some starting advice, because currently I
> am blind in which direction to go (in parallel I am reading Michael
> Kay's book as well as some tutorials).
>
> I have some very low level XML documents, which can be seen as just a
> sequence of elements with almost no hierarchy or container elements.
>
> <chaptertitle>ABC</chaptertitle>
> <para>...</para>
> <note>...</note>
> <para><img src=... /></para>
> <heading1>...</heading1>
> <para>...</para>
> <note>...</note>
> <para>...</para>
> <para>...</para>
> ...
> <chaptertitle>DEF</chaptertitle>
> <para>...</para>
> ...
>
> I know my life would be easier if I had container elements around
> each chapter's content, because finally I want to write each chapter
> into a separate file:
>
> <chapter title="ABC">
>    <para>...</para>
>    ...
> </chapter>
> <chapter title="DEF">
>    ...
>
> My question is about which way to go:
>
> * Trying to create a XSL stylesheet that operates on a sequence of
> elements ("all elements after <chaptertitle> until the next") -- if
> that is possible at all?
>
> Or
>
> * Trying to enhance the XML source with above mentioned container
> elements (using which tool?) before applying a XSL stylesheet?
>
> Thanks you for any hints that help accelerate my learning [X?]path.
>
> - Michael
>
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