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I am having a problem. Why else would I be posting, right? ;-) I have some XML that I can best describe this way. It is like notes taken from a college history class. Each <document> represents one class, and each subdocument element represents a specific event or time period (i.e. <war>, <legislation>, <civic-event>,etc.). One way I want to use this XML is to create one document that contains all the notes from every class. However, the professor would sometimes be in the middle of describing an event when class time was over, so he would continue it next time. But next time he wouldn't always start right away with what was incomplete from before. The notes have been transcribed into XML just as they were given in class. I have written a script using XSL to go through and make sure the subdocument elements that were incomplete in one class have a corresponding completed element in a following class. But my problem is when the professor left something incomplete in one class, talked about something completely different in the next, and then finished the incomplete topic in the third class. <root> <document date="2001.06.03"> <war title="a" complete="yes"> . . . </war> <legislation title="b" complete="yes"> . . . </legislation> <war title="c" complete="no"> . . . </war> </document> <document date="2001.06.10"> <civil-event title="d" complete="yes"> . . . </civil-event> </document> <document date="2001.06.17"> <war title="c" complete="continued"> . . . </war> <exploration title="e" complete="yes"> . . . </exploration> </document> <root> Using XSL, I look for all tags that have an @continued="no" and make sure it is followed by a corresponding tag with @complete="continued" and matching @title values. But how can I identify situations above where <civil-event title="d"> comes between the beginning and end of <war title ="c">? Thanks, Chris XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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