RE: Making flat files strucutred hierarchically

There should be plenty of examples in the archives of this list. I know that I have done several of them myself. Here is another solution to this frequently-asked question.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" />
  <xsl:strip-space elements="*" />

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="title" />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="title">
    <xsl:variable name="place" select="count(preceding-sibling::title)" />
    <layer>
      <xsl:copy-of select="." />
      <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::para">
        <xsl:with-param name="slot" select="$place" />
      </xsl:apply-templates>
    </layer>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="para">
    <xsl:param name="slot" />
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="count(preceding-sibling::title) = $slot + 1">
        <xsl:copy-of select="." />
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise />
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
-- 
Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     Huditsch Roman <Roman.Huditsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Wed, 6 Oct 2004 16:36:47 +0200
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:   Making flat files strucutred hierarchically

Hi,

 

I am in search for a comfortable way for sructuring flat files.

Please take this source document as an example:

 

<?xml versio="1.0"?>

<root>

   <title>Titel 1</title>

  <para>Para 1</para>

  <para>Para 2</para>

  <para>Para 3</para>

  <title>Title 2</title>

  <para>Para 1</para>

  <para>Para 2</para>

  <title>Title 3</title>

  <para>Para 1</para>

  <para>Para 2</para>

</root>

 

After my XSLT 1,0 transformation the output should look like

 

<?xml versio="1.0"?>

<root>

   <layer>

     <title>Titel 1</title>

     <para>Para 1</para>

     <para>Para 2</para>

     <para>Para 3</para>

  </layer>

  <layer>

    <title>Title 2</title>

    <para>Para 1</para>

    <para>Para 2</para>

  </layer>

  <layer>  

    <title>Title 3</title>

    <para>Para 1</para>

    <para>Para 2</para>

  </layer>

</root>

 

Is there any way to do this? I don't know how to define "take all "para" nodes up to the next "title" element.....

Can you help me?

Thank you very much in advance.

 

Wbr,

Roman



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