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 Reply to David Carlisle and Wendell: To the comments that I might try to use divs instead of the standard XHTML blockquote tag (because XHTML allows nested divs), I tried it and it doesn't work. If I remember correctly nested divs technically work but in IE6 a paragraph's initial indent is re-applied to the text following a blockquote (so, the continued part of the paragraph falsely appears to be a new paragraph). Hence, while some style features, such as line-height inherit correctly to the post blockquote text, it also incorrectly inherits the paragraph's initial indent. Reply to David Carlisle and Michael Kay: Thanks for David's explanation of why not to use DOE, as well as the tree-based reasoning behind XSLT (I understand why this kind of thing is a problem better). On the responses to my comment that Jay's solution was "overly complex", I did not mean that the offered solution was complex in that there were too many lines of code. What I meant was that the solution ends up handling or touching on a lot of data that isn't even involved in the blockquote problem. It is complex in that it results in a lot of extra processing of data, as in the example of a 20 page document with only one blockquote in one paragraph or the processing of documents without any blockquotes, etc. Reply to Jay Bryant: Thanks for your patience and your posting of a 1.0 compliant version of your solution. I did, however, have a few questions: 1. I tried to decipher this XPATH expression but I can't seem to understand it, can someone help explain what this is doing p[not(preceding-sibling::*[1]/self::p)] 2. In the below stylesheet (the second of the two you offered), how do you differentiate between the p representing the initial paragraph and the continued paragraph p tags. I need to figure out a way to output the original paragraph's "num" attribute next to the start of each real paragraph (but not repeat it for the new p tags surrounding the continued paragraph text). <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="x">
<html>
<head>
<title>Paragraph Chunking Test</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>
<body>
<xsl:for-each select="p[not(preceding-sibling::*[1]/self::p)]">
<xsl:variable name="group" select="@group"/>
<p>
<xsl:for-each select="../p[@group=$group]">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:for-each>
</p>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::blockquote"/>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template><xsl:template match="p"/> <xsl:template match="blockquote"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="span"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> 
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