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Hi , I am currently writing some html coversion xsl sheets for a TEI based dialect the layout should basicly look like this <table> <tr> <td> page1 text </td> <td> footnotes page 1 </td> </tr> <tr> <td> page 2 text </td> <td> footnotes page 2 </td> </tr> </table> the problem is that TEI uses <pb /> (pagebreak) elements to seperate pages instead of heving something like <page> yadayada </page> this brings a problem linebreaks can occur in lists , blockquotes etc this means i close the tr tag on the pb element when a blockquote witch is matched by another template is still open, resulting in faulty html like this : <tr> <blockquote> part1 </tr> part2 </blockquote> <tr> while i need this : <tr> <blockquote> part 1 </blockquote> </tr> <tr> <blockquote> part 2 </blockquote> </tr> the way this is solved right now is that we check for the ancestor and then close it with <xsl:when test="ancestor::blockquote"> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[ </blockquote>]]></xsl:text> </xsl:when> then close the tr, open another tr and then reopen the tag like this <xsl:when test="ancestor::blockquote"> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[ <blockquote>]]></xsl:text> </xsl:when> IMHO Is is a quite distastefull solution as it increases the chances of nonvalid output, and you basicly have 3 blockquote templates if for instance i where to change <xsl:template match="bq"> <blockquote> <xsl:apply-templates /> </blockquote> </xsl:template> to <xsl:template match="bq"> <div class="bq"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </div> </xsl:template> i'd also have to change the pb template on 2 locations I imagine this is a fairly common problem and I find it hard to believe that this would be the best solution available but looking on the web I couldn't turn up anything Can anyone offer a cleaner solution ? or is this really the way it should be done thanks in advance -- jelmer XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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