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 I've learned a lot from reading the traffic here. At the moment, I've got a problem that I feel I could almost solve on my own, if I had enough time -- I hope it will be an easy one. My input (and output) is essentially XHTML (actually OEB, but they're almost identical). It has a series of <p> elements, and in two specific cases, I need to convert the <p> elements to <li> elements. Those cases are: (1) when the <p> element starts with a <span> with the contents "➤ " (yes, that's a character reference), and (2) when the <p> element starts with a <span> with the contents "&(!!char1!!); " (that string exactly) In both of these cases, I need to replace the <p> element with an <li> element and delete the child <span> element entirely. Perhaps the more difficult part of this is that I also would like to take a series of such elements and surround the entire series with a <ul> </ul> element structure. So, basically, I'm trying to find paragraphs that should be list items and setting up the appropriate list and list item structure. I know I should start with the identity transform structure, since I don't want to change anything else in my input (at least not yet). I've gotten that from the FAQ site, and I've got that set up in my stylesheet. Now I need (I think) something to iterate through the paragraphs that satisfy one or the other of the above requirements (perhaps for-each?) along with some sort of XPath expression. That's where I'm feeling foggy. If I can get this going, I'd get extra credit (no, this is not a homework assignment -- just an expression) if I could also handle lists inside of lists. Those seem to have the <span> contents of "𐁣 " and I'd like to end up with the correct XHTML structure of <li>....
<ul>
<li>...</li>
...
</ul>
</li>etc. I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions or advice. Thank you very much! --Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texterity ~ XML and PDF ePublishing Services ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Loschen, XML Developer Texterity, Inc. 144 Turnpike Road Southborough, MA 01772 USA tel: +1.508.804.3033 fax: +1.508.804.3110 email: loschen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.texterity.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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