Re: Creating Drop Caps with XSL

Actually, your footnote element is seen by your processor as and
element... all properly formed markup is as long as it is not contained
in a CDATA tag.  

For a deep copy of an element (itself and all of it descendants) try
copy-of instead of copy.

Best of luck!

<M:D/>


On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 12:18, David Laurie wrote:
> Hello XSL list,
> 
> I have been gleaning bits of coding help from the list archive for quite a 
> while now (thanks!) but have run into something I cannot find a solution for 
> so I finally needed to post. I am using xml and xslt to build a dynamic 
> website that displays text and maps from an atlas. Our designer wants to be 
> able to set off the first paragraph and first letter of each text block 
> displayed.
> 
> So I want to transform something like:
> 
> <content>
>     <header>Some heading</header>
>     <paragraph> Some text  here. Some text  here<footnote number="1"/>. Some 
> text  here. </paragraph>
>     <paragraph> Some text  here. </paragraph>
>     <paragraph> Some text  here.</paragraph>
> </content>
> 
> into:
> 
> <content>
>     <header>Some heading</header>
>     <firstparagraph> <dropcap>S</dropcap>ome text  here. Some text  
> here<footnote number="1"/>. Some text  here. </firstparagraph>
>     <paragraph> Some text  here. </paragraph>
>     <paragraph> Some text  here.</paragraph>
> </content>
> 
> Following tips from list archive, I have managed to get almost proper output 
> with the problem being the exclusion of the footnote tags from the newly 
> created <firstparagraph> element. It is clear that this occurs because my xslt 
> converts <paragraph> content to a string, thus omitting the <footnote> tags.
> 
> The xsl I use:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="div/paragraph[1]">
>         <xsl:variable name="dropcap" select="substring(.,1,1)"/>
>         <xsl:element name="firstparagraph">
> 	<xsl:element name="dropcap">
>             <xsl:value-of select="$dropcap"/>
>         </xsl:element>
>         <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
> 	</xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
> <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
>   <xsl:copy>
>     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I am using the cocoon xslt tansformer built-in processor (a cagey way of 
> saying I don't know the name of it ;).)
> 
> The only solution I can see is to perform an intermediate transformation that 
> captures all of the contents of paragraph[1] as a string (including the 
> footnote tags), perform the transformation above, and then transform the 
> appropriate firstparagraph contents back into tags using a string search 
> operation.
> 
> I couldn't find a means of accomplishing this so I am assuming it is not the 
> correct solution.
> 
> Can anyone suggest one?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> Dave
> 
> David Laurie
> MA Humanities Computing