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Subject: Re: xsl-list Digest 13 Apr 2005 05:10:00 -0000 Issue 386
From: Daniel O'Donnell <daniel.odonnell@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:56:10 -0600

Transforming XML Blockquotes - Mixed Content 14744 by: Edward Bryant 14745 by: James Fuller 14746 by: Edward Bryant

I am having a lot of trouble transforming XML blockquotes that are
structurally and grammatically correct (i.e, as child elements to a
parent paragraph tag) into XHTML that will be displayed correctly by
a browser. Because of two separate IE6 bugs that prevent a blockquote
from being structured as the child of a paragraph, I pretty much need
the XSL output to be

<p>Yadda yadda yadda:</p> <blockquote><p>blah blah
blah</p></blockquote> <p class="cont">yackity yack</p>

However, the XML is structured like this:

<p>Yadda yadda yadda: <blockquote>blah blah blah</blockquote> yackity
yack</p>


So, my first thought was to make a conditional statement that would
do this but I am having a lot of trouble constructing it. I can not
locate any information on a conditional statement that would test
whether one element (p) with mixed conternt contained another element
(blockquote). I also am having trouble with a way to split up the p
tag's text into the pre-blockquote and post-blockquote strings. Even
with the above problems, I haven't even touched on the problems that
a paragraph with multiple blockquotes would cause.

As Jim noted, I was asking the same question earlier in the day (how weird is that). I've still not managed to get a XSLT 1.0 solution (which I need), but in XSLT 2.0 it is really easy. There is even an example in the recommendation that mutatis mutandis works out of the box: <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#d5e20377> "Grouping Alternating Sequences of Elements".

-dan

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