RE: creating canonRef from flat

> Starting with
> <r>Mateus 3.1-12; Lucas 3.1-20; </r>
> I want
> <parallelPassage>
>         <canonRef book="MAT" chapter="3" verse="1" verseEnd="12"/>
>         <canonRef book="LUK" chapter="3" verse="1" 
> verseEnd="20"/> </parallelPassage>
> 
> I have just switched to 2.0 as it seemed the regular 
> expressions would 
> help me here.

Yes, this kind of "up-conversion" is an excellent use case for
<xsl:analyze-string>

> My thinking is to look in <r> and replace "Mateus" with 
> "<book>MAT</book>" 
> and "Lucas" with "<book>LUK</book>" ... and all the rest
> and in a second pass change
> 
> <r><book>MAT</book> 3.1-12; <book>LUK</book> 3.1-20; </r>
> <r>
>         <book>MAT</book> 
>         <chapter>3</chapter>
>         <verse>1</verse>
>         <verseEnd>12</verseEnd> 
>         <book>LUK</book>
>         <chapter>3</chapter>
>         <verse>1</verse>
>         <verseEnd>20</verseEnd 
> </r>
> and then put in final form in third pass
> <parallelPassage>
>         <canonRef book="MAT" chapter="3" verse="1" verseEnd="12"/>
>         <canonRef book="LUK" chapter="3" verse="1" 
> verseEnd="20"/> </parallelPassage>
> 
> Am I headed in the right direction? Or are there some really neat 
> shortcuts?

I would have thought it could be done more easily than that. Something
like (untested):

<xsl:analyze-string select="r" regex="[^;]+">
  <xsl:matching-substring>
    <canonRef>
    <xsl:analyze-string select="." 
          regex="([^\s]+)\s([0-9]+)\.([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+)">
      <xsl:matching-substring>
        <xsl:attribute name="book" select="my:abbrev(regex-group(1))"/>
        <xsl:attribute name="chapter" select="regex-group(2)"/>
        <xsl:attribute name="verse" select="regex-group(3)"/>
        <xsl:attribute name="verseEnd" select="regex-group(4)"/>
      </
    </
    </canonRef>
  </
</

[Correction, xsl:attribute doesn't take a select attribute - but watch
this space]

<xsl:function name="my:abbrev">
  <xsl:param name="long-name"/>
  <xsl:variable name="table">
    <book long="Mateus" short="MAT"/>
    <book long="Lucas" short="LUK"/>
    ...
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:sequence select="$table/book[@long=$long-name]/@short"/>
</xsl:function>

> If I use replace will I need to have it nested 66 times to 
> account for all 
> books?

No, use a lookup table as above.
> 
> 
> Jim Albright
> 704 843-0582
> Wycliffe Bible Translators
> 
> 
> 
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