RE: XML -> XML and generate position in attribute prob

Thanks Mike, but what page is that in the 1st edition (the one I have here)?

Mick

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[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]Namens Michael Kay
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Onderwerp: RE:  XML -> XML and generate position in attribute
problem


You'll find a stylesheet that does something very close to this in my XSLT
Programmers Refererence, 2nd edition, page 185. It doesn't generate the
position numbers, but that's the easy part.

Mike Kay
Software AG

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>
> I?ve got the following prob that?s kept me busy all week. I
> want to convert
> one XML file into another in order to save me from having to
> write difficult
> macros in Word. The original XML looks something like this:
>
> <root>
> 	<line lineID="1">Hello there. World</line>
> 	<line lineID="2">one two, testing</line>
> etc. etc. etc.
> </root>
>
> What I want to do is wrap a <word>-tag around all words
> within <line>-tags,
> plus automatically generate something like 'wordID="x"' as
> well. The output
> of the sample above should look like this (underscores are
> spaces in this
> example):
>
> <root>
> 	<line lineID="1">
> 		<word wordID="1">Hello</word>_<word
> wordID="2">there</word>._<word
> wordID="3">World</word>
> 	</line>
> 	<line lineID="2">
> 		<word wordID="1">one</word>_<word
> wordID="2">two</word>,_<word
> wordID="3">testing</word>
> 	</line>
> </root>
>
> I know I can use <copy> to copy the original tags (with their
> attributes?)
> and probably use position() to work out the wordID (or am I
> wrong here?) but
> I simply can?t figure out how to do this. Plus I also have to
> look out for
> full stops and commas and exclude them from getting into the
> <word>-tags.
> Has anyone got any clues, ideas, tips (or totally-ready-made
> code) for me?
> Much appreciated.
>
> Mick
> m.vanrootseler@xxxxxxxxx
>
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