Re: How to perse the whole source document

Hi Mo,

The XSLT is parsing the entire source document, it's just that you're
only accessing part of it.  You're stepping through the content of a
section element one node at a time in order to group the para
elements.  However, when you find a para element, you're only moving
on to the next para element with the same name - if there isn't one
you stop, so the section elements afterwards are ignored.

Perhaps it'd be better to try a different approach - apply templates
to everything and test within a template what you need to do.  So,
when you find a section element, create a sid and apply templates to
everything inside it:

<xsl:template match="section">
   <sid>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
   </sid>
</xsl:template>

When you find a para element, test whether its preceding sibling is a
para element with the same name as it has - if it is, do nothing, if
it isn't, do all the funky stuff you want to do with the para element:

<xsl:template match="para">
   <xsl:variable name="as" select="@name" />
   <xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::para[1]/@name != $as">
      <text name="{$as}">
         <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="content" />
         <xsl:copy-of select="document('doc2.xml')
            /TableName/RecordName[normalize-space(name) = $as]
            /*[not(self::name)]" />
      </text>
   </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="para" mode="content">
   <xsl:copy-of select="node()" />
   <xsl:text>&#xa;</xsl:text>
   <xsl:apply-templates mode="content"
      select="following-sibling::*[1][@name = current()/@name]" />
</xsl:template>

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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http://www.jenitennison.com/



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