Marked up data with sectbreaks (was Re: XSLT FAQ ideas

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Subject: Marked up data with sectbreaks (was Re: XSLT FAQ ideas)
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:25:22 -0500

At 11:02 AM 2/17/2003, ERH wrote:

I still don't know whether or not my qwuestion was answered in there somewhere. FYI, it was how do you change
marked up data
<sectbreak/>
marked up data
<sectbreak/>
marked up data
into
<sect>
marked up data
</sect>
<sect>
marked up data
</sect>
<sect>
marked up data
</sect>
I did eventually figure it out. (use the count() function in a recursive template to process all the nodes with a certain number of <sectbreak/> before them)

So far's I know that's a new solution or one not seen in public anyhow. The other known solutions are (1) indexing nodes to sectbreaks (generate-id(preceding::sectbreak[1]) works pretty well), then pulling them when matching sectbreaks ... documented somewhat in the FAQ under "flat" (flat structure to hierarchy). An alternative is a forward stepwise tree walk, in which a template matching a sectbreak has you proceed through the following sibling nodes one by one until you get a new sectbreak.

The problem gets more complicated (much more) if your breaks are not all at the same level.

Cheers,
Wendell


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