How to parse text into words, phrases, clauses, sente

Hey XML gurus,

Still somewhat new to XML/XSL and need some help
getting started on how to use regular expressions and
tokens in English text to transform it into an XML
document marked up for:

1.words (delimited by WS, excluding any external
2.punctuation, but allowing internal punctuation)
3.phrases (delimited by the comma)
4.clauses (delimited by colon or semicolon)
5.sentences (delimited by the period, question-mark,
or  exclamation mark)
6.paragraphs (delimited by a line break)

Also ideal would be to assign sequenced id's to every
tag, either in a running consecutive style from
beginning to end, or repeating from 1 for every level
of nesting. 

In more concrete terms,

To transfrom this text:

THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness,
 Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
 A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shap
 Of deities or mortals, or of both,
 In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
 What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
 What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

into this XML: (using indexing that renumbers for each
sub-group)

<para id=1>
 <sent id=1>
  <clause id=1>
   <phrase id=1>THOU still unravish'd bride of
quietness,</phrase>
   <phrase id=2>Thou foster-child of Silence and slow
Time,</phrase>
   <phrase id=3>Sylvan historian,</phrase>
   <phrase id=4> who canst thus express A flowery tale
more sweetly than our rhyme</phrase>:
  </clause>
  <clause id=2>
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of
deities or mortals,</phrase>
   <phrase id=1> or of both,</phrase>
   <phrase id=2> In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
  </clause>
 </sent>
 <sent id=2>What men or gods are these?</sent>
 <sent id=3>What maidens loth?</sent>
 <sent id=4>What mad pursuit?</sent>
 <sent id=5>What struggle to escape?</sent>
 <sent id=6>What pipes and timbrels?</sent>
 <sent id=7>What wild ecstasy?</sent>
</para>


or into this XML: (using indexing that is continuous
per tag)

<para id=1>
 <sent id=1>
  <clause id=1>
   <phrase id=1>THOU still unravish'd bride of
quietness,</phrase>
   <phrase id=2>Thou foster-child of Silence and slow
Time,</phrase>
   <phrase id=3>Sylvan historian,</phrase>
   <phrase id=4> who canst thus express A flowery tale
more sweetly than our rhyme</phrase>:
  </clause>
  <clause id=2>
What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of
deities or mortals,</phrase>
   <phrase id=5> or of both,</phrase>
   <phrase id=6> In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
  </clause>
 </sent>
 <sent id=2>What men or gods are these?</sent>
 <sent id=3>What maidens loth?</sent>
 <sent id=4>What mad pursuit?</sent>
 <sent id=5>What struggle to escape?</sent>
 <sent id=6>What pipes and timbrels?</sent>
 <sent id=7>What wild ecstasy?</sent>
</para>

Surely this has been done before. I have searched
through archives and have not found anything, probably
since I am searching using the wrong terminology.

Would really appreciate the help as it would give me
insight into using regular expressions and sequencing
in XSL.

Thanks in advance

Mark Bordelon



 
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