Re: grouping nodes inside a new parent node

Note followed this thread, but isn't 

<xsl:copy-of select=".|following-sibling::node()[not(self::notes)] the same?

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:25:23 +0000, Andrew Male <ccsajm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> David,
> 
> Thanks for the information it helped a lot.  Just in case anyone else was
> interested and to close this thread this is what is working for me.
> Perhaps it could be a little more elegant but.......  I have also included
> the source of channel-list.xml which is used earlier in the xslt
> 
> NB. This:
> 
> <xsl:copy-of
> select=".|following-sibling::table|following-sibling::subheading|following-sibling::para|following-sibling::images|following-sibling::top|following-sibling::list"/>
> 
> was the only way I could think of saying every following sibling except
> <notes>.  Explicitly saying all the following-siblings I want except
> <notes>.  I notice XSLT 2.0 has provision for this, anything better than
> what I have used?
> 
> Working XSLT
> ------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>         <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
>         <xsl:variable name="contentnodes"/>
>         <xsl:template match="@xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation">
>                 <xsl:attribute
> name="xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation">http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/system/xxeconfig/config/news/newseditor.xsd</xsl:attribute>
>         </xsl:template>
>         <xsl:template match="publish-to">
>                 <xsl:copy>
>                         <xsl:for-each select="document('channel-list.xml')/channels/area">
>                                 <xsl:variable name="attname">
>                                         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>                                 </xsl:variable>
>                                 <xsl:choose>
>                                         <xsl:when test="$attname = //publish-to/*">
>                                                 <xsl:attribute
> name="{$attname}"><xsl:text>true</xsl:text></xsl:attribute>
>                                         </xsl:when>
>                                         <xsl:otherwise>
>                                                 <xsl:attribute
> name="{$attname}"><xsl:text>false</xsl:text></xsl:attribute>
>                                         </xsl:otherwise>
>                                 </xsl:choose>
>                         </xsl:for-each>
>                 </xsl:copy>
>         </xsl:template>
>         <xsl:template match="para[position() >
> 1]|table|subheading|images|top|list"/>
>         <xsl:template match="notes">
>                 <xsl:copy>
>                         <xsl:apply-templates select="child::*"/>
>                 </xsl:copy>
>         </xsl:template>
>         <xsl:template match="news-item/para[1]">
>                 <content>
>                         <xsl:copy-of
> select=".|following-sibling::table|following-sibling::subheading|following-sibling::para|following-sibling::images|following-sibling::top|following-sibling::list"/>
>                 </content>
>         </xsl:template>
>         <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>                 <xsl:copy>
>                         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>                 </xsl:copy>
>         </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> channel-list.xml
> ----------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <channels>
>                 <area>business</area>
>                 <area>international</area>
>                 <area>research</area>
>                 <area>swindon</area>
>                 <area>sport</area>
>                 <area>research</area>
>                 <area>releases</area>
>                 <area>community</area>
>                 <area>campus</area>
> </channels>
> 
> --On 25 February 2005 12:27 +0000 David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > It depends a bit how general you want it to be but basically you want to
> > have empty templates for all the elements that you want to group so the
> > "identity" template doesn't copy them to the wrong place, then have a
> > template for the first element in the group that copies all the group to
> > where you want.
> >
> > so if the rule is that the special nodes are para children of news-item
> > that don't follow a table then you want
> >
> > <xsl:template match="news-item/para[not(preceding-sibling::table)]"/>
> >
> > then
> >
> > <xsl:template match="news-item/para[1]" priority="10">
> >  <content>
> >   <xsl:copy-of
> >  select=".|following-sibling::*para[not(preceding-sibling::table)]"/>
> > </content>
> >
> > as with any grouping problem you can probably speed it up with keys,
> > although in this case I'd guess your news-items don't have hundreds of
> > children so it might not make so much difference.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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