Re: alphabetic counters

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Subject: Re: alphabetic counters
From: Nicholas Shanks <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 19:12:21 +0100

On 10 May 2004, at 17:30, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:

So, generally speaking, you won't need to use <![CDATA[...]]> unless it is *absolutely* necessary. A combination of CDATA and disable-output-escaping is hinting that they're both superfluous Another purpose they serve is to trick the XSL processor into thinking that it is *not* outputting XML while it actually is...

Well thanks guys! Due to learning about {} and replacing all that xsl:text crap I reduced my stylesheet from 18,705 to 15,196 bytes. But I still have some CDATA and escaping going on. This occurs when creating table rows:

<tr>...

<xsl:if test="position() != 1"> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[<tr class="]]></xsl:text> <xsl:copy-of select="$planetbg"/> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[">]]></xsl:text> </xsl:if>

...

<xsl:if test="position() != last()">
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[</tr>]]></xsl:text>
</xsl:if>

...</tr>

It's designed to create new rows like this:

<tr>
	<th rowspan="3">...</th>
	<td>some data</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>more data</td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td>row 3 of the header</td>
</td>

But outputting nodes within an xml:if and closing them within another causes parse errors in Libxslt and Sablotron.

<xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="concat('#',@cite)" /> <xsl:number count="/catalogue/citation[@author=id(@cite)/@author and @year=id(@cite)/@year]" format="a"/> </xsl:attribute>

<xsl:number> doesn't work for me. I tried putting it in a variable and outputting the variable as a test and nothing was produced.

nor was anything output by David's <xsl:number format="a" count="reference[@author=current()/@author][@year=current()/@year]"/> or by changing " and " to "][" in Andreas' version.

The key approach from Michael Key didn't seem to work from just copying and pasting, but I will read the docs on keys and see if i can fix it.

I'm using Libxslt and Sablotron - Saxon and Xalan-J cannot parse the xsl file properly, so I am not bothering with them. I don't know what versions I have, whichever ones are bundled with Marc Liyanage's TestXSLT 3.0 software (http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/)

If you want to take a look at everything, these are the URLs: http://astro.nickshanks.com/library/extrasolar.en.html > HTML after processing http://astro.nickshanks.com/library/extrasolar.xml http://astro.nickshanks.com/stylesheets/extrasolar.xsl http://astro.nickshanks.com/dtds/extrasolar.dtd

- Nick.

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alphabetic counters
- Nicholas Shanks - Mon, 10 May 2004 16:50:23 +0100
  - David Carlisle - Mon, 10 May 2004 17:13:05 +0100
  - Michael Kay - Mon, 10 May 2004 17:17:20 +0100
  - Andreas L. Delmelle - Mon, 10 May 2004 18:30:00 +0200
    - Nicholas Shanks - Mon, 10 May 2004 19:12:21 +0100 <=
      - Wendell Piez - Mon, 10 May 2004 14:42:17 -0400
      - Andreas L. Delmelle - Mon, 10 May 2004 20:52:32 +0200
      - Nicholas Shanks - Tue, 11 May 2004 02:27:54 +0100
      - Nicholas Shanks - Tue, 11 May 2004 13:13:35 +0100

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