Re: How to render TEI <div*>s with chapter-like pagina

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Subject: Re: How to render TEI <div*>s with chapter-like pagination?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:03:07 -0400

James,

Would it help to have a trick for selecting all the element children of body *except* the divs? So you can create a page sequence for them?

Fortunately, the TEI model doesn't allow any of these to occur intermixed with the divs, only before them, so given valid input, this can work....

<xsl:template match="body">
  <fo:page-sequence>
    <-- You may want to wrap this page-sequence in a conditional
        to avoid spurious ones -->
    <xsl:apply-templates select="*[not(self::div|self::div0|self::div1)]"/>
  </fo:page-sequence>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="div|div0|div1"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="div|div0">
  <fo:page-sequence>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="div1[not(parent::div0)]">
  <fo:page-sequence>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:template>

If I've misconstrued the problem -- or if the XPath is obscure -- please ask again.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:38 PM 4/9/2003, you wrote:

I have been trying to customize Sebastian Rahtz's
stylesheets for converting TEI to XSL-FO, and I have
been trying to figure out how to get top-level <div*s>
(that is, top-level subdivisions marked by <div0>,
<div1>, or the <div> tag) to render like
standard-issue chapters, with the page header
suppressed and the page number at the bottom (often
centered). The trouble is that it is more complicated
than just turning "<div> . . . </div>" to
"<fo:page-sequence>  . . . </fo:page-sequence>". The
following is a snippet of valid TEI:

<body>
<!-- Nearly arbitrary content, paragraphs and such -->
<div1>
<!-- Some content -->
</div1>
<!-- Not so arbitrary content, but some tags, like
<milestone/>, can go here. -->
<div1>
<!-- More content. -->
</div1>
</body>

If it weren't for the fact that <body>'s children
could be more than just <div*>s, I'd have an easier
time of this.

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How to render TEI <div>s with chapter-like pagination? James J. Ramsey - Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:33:47 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez* - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:00:19 -0400 (EDT) <= James J. Ramsey - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:12:44 -0400 (EDT) David Carlisle - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:35:10 -0400 (EDT) James J. Ramsey - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:33:04 -0400 (EDT) Wendell Piez - Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:34:30 -0400 (EDT)

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