Re: template matching

You haven't fully specified your input, in particular can your sub2
elements contain anything other than note elements?
most of the replies I've seen have assumed not and generated a ul on the
parent.

Thi sis an alternative that allows sub1 to contain other stuff to be
processed besides notes, and just wraps each bunch of consecutive notes
in a list, whatever their parent, so

<sub1>
foo foo <b>bar</b>
<note>a</note>
<note>aa</note>
foo foo <b>bar</b>
<note>b</note>
<note>bb</note>
</sub1>

comes out as
<div>
foo foo <b>bar</b>
<ul>
<li>a</li>
<li>aa</li>
</ul>
foo foo <b>bar</b>
<ul>
<li>b</li>
<li>bb</li>
</ul>
</div>



<!-- through most notes away (they will be handled elsewhere -->
<xsl:template match="note"/>

<!-- special case teh first note in each contiguous group of notes, to
form a list and then process the nodes in note mode -->
<xsl:template match="note[not(preceding-sibling::*[1][self::note])]">
<ul>
<xsl:apply-template mode="note" select="."/>
</ul>
</template>


<!-- make an item and process the next element node if it is a note-->
<xsltemplate match="note" mode="note">
<li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
<xsl:apply-templates seelct=following-sibling::*[1][self::note]"/>
</xsl:template>



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