Re: xsl grouping problem

An XSLT 1.0 solution:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:key name="kLLast" match="line_last | line"
  use="generate-id(preceding-sibling::line_first[1])"/>

  <xsl:template match="node()|@*">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="line_first">
    <stanza>
      <xsl:copy-of select=
      ".|key('kLLast',generate-id())"/>
    </stanza>
  </xsl:template>
  <xsl:template match="line|line_last"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev

On 9/9/05, Jeff Hatch <hatchjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been chewing on this for some time now and would love some
suggestions.
> Coming from a document-centric environment, I am given xml that looks like
this:
>
> <chapter>
> <para>This is a paragraph in the chapter</para>
> <line_first>This is first line of a stanza of poetry</line_first>
> <line>This is line of poetry</line>
> <line>This is line of poetry</line>
> <line>This is line of poetry</line>
> <line_last>This is last line of a stanza of poetry</line_last>
> <para>This is a paragraph in the chapter</para>
> </chapter>
>
> The challenge is to perform copy and grouping operations to a) copy all
existing
> structure as is, using copy-of, which is not a problem. However, to the
above
> xml I wish to apply additional structure to create a poem stanza:
>
> <chapter>
> <para>This is a paragraph in the chapter</para>
> <stanza>
> <line_first>This is first line of poetry</line_first>
> <line>This is line of poetry</line>
> <line>This is line of poetry</line>
> <line>This is line of poetry</line>
> <line_last>This is last line of poetry</line_last>
> </stanza>
> <para>This is a paragraph in the chapter</para>
> </chapter>
>
> My difficulty stems from being dealt two dissimilar element names at the
> beginning and end of the block of xml that needs to be grouped. My attempts
to
> do this with group-starting-with and group-ending-with have failed.
Performing
> group-adjacent on the <line> elements miss the first_ and last_line
elements.
> Any thoughts?
>
>
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