RE: Problem with grouping the handling of sibling node

> I try to convert some special tags into some more regular tags.
> I have something like <starttag/>sometext<endtag/>, but starttag and 
> endtag are tags without content, the content is the sometext.
> 
> So I have an example xml and a suggestion for an xsl, but it 
> does not work.
> 
> The example xsl runs mostly within XMLSpy but I have to use 
> Saxon8 in my application, and that gave me an exception.

What kind of exception? There's no value in reporting errors on this list
unless you're specific about the error message. The stylesheet below gives
no exceptions.

> I try to stripp the xsl until it runs with saxon, but than I 
> lost almost 
> of my functionality.
> 
> So If someone could give me an advice how to do this with 
> saxon or what 
> else to do.
> I I would be very grateful if someone could help me.

I think it would be useful to simplify the problem. It's difficult to guess
at what you're trying to do by studying code that doesn't work.

I think I would tackle this (even in 2.0) with an apply-templates sibling
traversal, along the lines:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="group-start-and-end">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="child::node()[1]" mode="traverse"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="start" mode="traverse">
  <span><xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node()[1]"
mode="traverse"/></span>
  <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::end/following-sibling::node()[1]"
                       mode="traverse"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="end" mode="traverse"/>

<xsl:template match="node()" mode="traverse">
  <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node()[1]"
mode="traverse"/>
</xsl:template>

Don't try to do anything else in the same transformation pass, keep that for
a second pass over the data once you've sorted the hierarchic structure out.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> 
> Regards
> Olaf
> 
> Here are the XML (tinytest.xml)
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="tinytest.xsl"?>
> <document>
> 	<story>Test text with
> 	<tabcontent>
> 	<row>
> 		<cell>cell 1</cell>
> 		<cell>cell 2<start type="1"/>TEST TAG TEXT<end 
> endfor="start"/></cell>
> 		<cell>cell 3<start type="5"/>TEST TAG TEXT<end 
> endfor="start"/> </cell>
> 	</row>
> 	</tabcontent> more <start type="2"/>TEST TAG TEXT<end 
> endfor="start"/>
> 	if TEST  <start type="3"/><test desc="should be 
> removed"/>TEST TAG
> 	<test1 desc="should be removed">also trash</test1><end 
> endfor="start"/>would need.
> 	And another test text TEST TAG TEXT with some regex markup.
> 	<start type="4"/>TEST TAG TEXT<end endfor="start"/></story>
> </document>
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========
> and the XSL (tinytest.xsl)
> ==============================================================
> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> 	xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> 	xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> 	xmlns="http://www.example.com/tinytest"
> 	>
> 
> 	<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" 
> indent="yes"/>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates />
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="story" >
> 		<text x="single story">
> 			<xsl:for-each select="node()">
> 				<xsl:call-template name="breaktest"/>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 		</text>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 	
> 	<xsl:template match="cell" >
> 		<td x="single cell">
> 			<xsl:for-each select="node()">
> 				<xsl:call-template name="breaktest"/>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 		</td>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="row" >
> 		<tr>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates />
> 		</tr>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 	<xsl:template match="tabcontent" >
> 		<table>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates />
> 		</table>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> 	<xsl:template name="breaktest">
> 	<xsl:choose>
> 		<xsl:when test="(name() eq 'start')
> 						and 
> (following-sibling::*[1]/name() eq 'end')
> 						and 
> (following-sibling::*[1]/@endfor eq 'start') ">
> 			<FoundStart>
> 				<xsl:attribute 
> name="mytype"><xsl:value-of 
> select="@type"/></xsl:attribute>
> 			</FoundStart>
> 		</xsl:when>
> 		<xsl:when test="(name() eq 'end')
> 						and (@endfor eq 'start')
> 						and 
> (preceding-sibling::*[1]/name() eq 
> 'start')"><FoundEndWillBeDeleted/></xsl:when>
> 		<xsl:when test="(self::text())
> 						and 
> (preceding-sibling::*[1]/name() eq 'start')
> 						and 
> (following-sibling::*[1]/name() eq 'end')
> 						and 
> (following-sibling::*[1]/@endfor eq 
> 'start')"><FoundTextWillBeDeleted/></xsl:when>
> 		<xsl:when test="(self::text())">
> 			<xsl:analyze-string select="." 
> regex="(.*?)(TEST TAG TEXT)">
> 				<xsl:matching-substring>
> 					<xsl:value-of 
> select="regex-group(1)"/><FoundTextWillBeChanged/>
> 				</xsl:matching-substring>
> 				<xsl:non-matching-substring>
> 					<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 				</xsl:non-matching-substring>
> 			</xsl:analyze-string>
> 		</xsl:when>
> 		<xsl:otherwise>
> 			<xsl:analyze-string select="." 
> regex="(.*?)(TEST TAG TEXT)">
> 				<xsl:matching-substring>
> 					<xsl:value-of 
> select="regex-group(1)"/><FoundTextWillBeChanged/>
> 				</xsl:matching-substring>
> 				<xsl:non-matching-substring>
> 					<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 				</xsl:non-matching-substring>
> 			</xsl:analyze-string>
> 			<xsl:apply-templates />
> 		</xsl:otherwise>
> 	</xsl:choose>
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
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> =========
> ==============================================================
> =========