Re: How to combine consecutive input nodes into one o

Check the following grouping resources:

Jeni Tennison's site: http://www.jenitennison.com/
Dave Pawson's FAQ: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html

In Dave's FAQ, check both grouping and flat file transformation.

If you want to throw a bigger XML snippet and your shot at an XSL
transformation at the list, you'll probably get some help that way, too.
What you've included here doesn't show much. For example, depending on the
tags that contain the content you've shown, your problem may be as simple
changing how the parent element is handled. As it is, I can't see enough
to be any help (not that I'm a heavy hitter on the list anyway - probably
the best thing I can do is send you to those resources).

Jay Bryant
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 How to combine consecutive input nodes into one output node?






Hi

I've only just started working with XML and XSL. What
I'm trying to do is to write a simple XSLT that will
change an Openoffice Writer document into fairly
presentable (X)HTML. I've accomplished most of what I
need to do except the following:

What I need to know is how to transform a bunch of
consecutive similar nodes into a single output node.

For example:

< ... >
<text:p text:style-name="Listing">Line 1</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="Listing">Line 2</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="Listing"><text:s
text:c="4"/>Line 3 (indented)</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="Listing"><text:s
text:c="4"/>Line 4 (indented)</text:p>
<text:p text:style-name="Listing">Line 5</text:p>
< ... >

Here I need to combine all the _consecutive_ <text:p>
nodes which have the attribute "text:style-name" equal
to "Listing" so that the output looks something like:

<p class="Listing>
Line 1
Line 2
    Line 3 (indented)
    Line 4 (indented)
Line 5
</p>

Note that I need to take into account the <text:s>
nodes which provide the spacing and are interspersed
amongst the <text:p> nodes.

Any code, pointers to FAQs/manuals, or even keywords
to Google for will be much appreciated.

tia

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