Re: Re: (Probably trivial) grouping problem

Thank you very much indeed - works like a charm.

Stefan

owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 19.07.2003 12:38:50:

> Use the following transformation:
> 
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> 
>  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
> 
>  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
>  <xsl:key  name="kFollParas" match="para[not(@title)]"
>   use="generate-id(preceding-sibling::para[@title][1])"/>
> 
>   <xsl:template match="para[@title]">
>     <section>
>       <title><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></title>
>       <para><xsl:value-of select="."/></para>
>       <xsl:copy-of select="key('kFollParas', generate-id())"/>
>     </section>
>   </xsl:template>
>   <xsl:template match="para[not(@title)]"/>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> When applied on your source.xml:
> 
> <text>
>   <para title="title1">
>         some text
>   </para>
>   <para>
>         a para without a title
>   </para>
>   <para title="title2">
>         more text
>   </para>
>   <para>
>         yet another untitled para
>   </para>
> </text>
> 
> 
> the wanted result is produced:
> 
> <section>
>    <title>title1</title>
>    <para>
>         some text
>   </para>
>    <para>
>         a para without a title
>   </para>
> </section>
> <section>
>    <title>title2</title>
>    <para>
>         more text
>   </para>
>    <para>
>         yet another untitled para
>   </para>
> </section>
> 
> 
> Hope this helped.
> 
> 
> =====
> Cheers,
> 
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> 
> "Stefan Tilkov" <stefan.tilkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> 
news:OFF1F431D7.102B9DE9-ONC1256D68.002AEF58-C1256D68.002AFA73@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I can't for the life of me figure out how to solve a simple problem. I
> > know that it is related to grouping, but my XSL (and XPath) knowlegde 
is
> > not up to translating answers given to similar problems to my 
particular
> > case.
> >
> > I have a couple of paragrahps, marked up this way:
> >
> > <para title="title1">
> >         some text
> > </para>
> > <para>
> >         a para without a title
> > </para>
> > <para title="title2">
> >         more text
> > </para>
> > <para>
> >         yet another untitled para
> > </para>
> >
> > I want to turn them into this:
> >
> > <section>
> >         <title>title1</title>
> >         <para>
> >                 some text
> >         </para>
> >         <para>
> >                 a para without a title
> >         </para>
> > </section>
> > <section>
> >         <title>title2</title>
> >         <para>
> >                 more text
> >         </para>
> >         <para>
> >                 yet another untitled para
> >         </para>
> > </section>
> >
> > That is, I want to create sections from paragraphs, turning the title 
into
> > an element belonging to the section. My experiments with 
following-sibling
> > and preceeding-sibling all had the problem that *all* paragraphs 
without a
> > title were returned, and I somehow need to get access to only those 
before
> > the next para with a title.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> >  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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