Re: Question about creating 2 output nodes from 1 input node

Yannick Nicolas wrote:
> 
> My original document is a set of paragraphs, and each of them has a title,
> which is tagged by <title id="...."> blahblah </title>.
> The <title> tag has an "id" attribute as you can see.
> 
> ----------
> 
> <title id="chapter-1">1st title</title>
> <p>blahblahblah</p>
> 
> <title id="chapter-2">2nd title</title>
> <p>blahblahblah</p>
> 
> <title id="chapter-3">3rd title</title>
> <p>blahblahblah</p>
> 
> ----------
> 
> My final document contains the same structure: a set of paragraphs that
> have each one a title which is tagged in another way : each title has
> an anchorage that links to the bottom of the document, where I can find
> the list of all the titles.
> 
> ----------
> 
> <a href="#chapter-1">1st title</a>
> <p>blahblahblah</p>
> 
> <a href="#chapter-2">1st title</a>
> <p>blahblahblah</p>
> 
> <a href="#chapter-3">1st title</a>
> <p>blahblahblah</p>
> 
> <list>
> <p><a name="chapter-1"></a>1st title</p>
> <p><a name="chapter-1"></a>2nd title</p>
> <p><a name="chapter-1"></a>3rd title</p>
> </list>
> 
> ----------
> 
> I know what rules to write to output the first part of the output tree
> (the paragraphs and their titles), but I don't understand how I can add
> the list of nodes that contains the information that are already used
> to make the 1st part of the output tree.
> 
> I hope you understand what I mean!!!

Try adding some code to the end of your top-level template, something
like:

<xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    <!-- ... or however you do the first part -->

    <list>
    <xsl:for-each select="//title">
	<p><a name="{@id}"></a><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
    </xsl:for-each>
    </list>
</xsl:template>

The for-each loop is gone round for every title element in the document
- that's what "//title" selects.

This is just one way of using information more than once in XSLT
- which is one of the reasons it is such a powerful language.

-- 

cheers

phil

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