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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: grouping based on string but with child nodes
 Just to make sure I'm understanding it, a couple questions interspersed below with my understanding of what it does. I suppose, but does the use of that element *really* mean what you say it is? Where I needed a dummy element I explicitly called it a dummy element. > <xsl:template match="title"> > <xsl:variable name="separated-titles" as="node()*"> > <xsl:apply-templates mode="separate-titles"/> > </xsl:variable> It changes how the processor looks at the title elements. Without it, $separated-titles has only a single node, that being the root of the temporary tree. By indicating this type then the processor creates a set of nodes instead of a tree of nodes. The set of nodes is important for the way I've written for-each-group ... if it were a tree I would have had to address the child nodes of the tree root. > <xsl:variable name="titles" as="element(title)*"> > <xsl:for-each-group select="$separated-titles" > group-starting-with="dummy:dummy"> > <title> > <xsl:copy-of select="current-group()[not(self::dummy:dummy)]"/> > </title> > </xsl:for-each-group> > </xsl:variable> > <xsl:copy-of select="$titles"/> > </xsl:template> Yes, instead of a single node being the top of a temporary tree. Mike Kay's advice in his posts has convinced me that typing is so very important. In my XSLStyle documentation methodology I enforce a stylesheet writing rule that mandates every global variable be explicitly typed, otherwise the violation is flagged visibly in the documentation. grouping with groups starting with the dummy:dummy element maybe before. And the content is to copy the entire thing but exclude from that copy the very dummy:dummy that you're grouping by. nifty! Yes ... note that the first group doesn't have a dummy:dummy so you cannot use: current-group()[position()>1] ... which is what I would have used if *every* group began with a dummy:dummy element. But when using group-starting-with= there may be (as here) a set of nodes not meeting the criterion, therefore the first group doesn't in fact start with the element. > <xsl:template match="*" mode="separate-titles"> > <xsl:copy-of select="."/> > </xsl:template> Copy every *element* ... this handles the <emph> or any other element. Note that this doesn't process the content, it copies the element and its descendants in their entirety. This allows you to have "||" in the emphasized content because it really is content and not a delimiter between titles. > <xsl:template match="text()" mode="separate-titles"> > <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="\|\|"> > <xsl:matching-substring> > <dummy:dummy/> > </xsl:matching-substring> > <xsl:non-matching-substring> > <xsl:value-of select="."/> > </xsl:non-matching-substring> > </xsl:analyze-string> > </xsl:template> In fact we are only handling the child text nodes of the original <title>, not descendent text nodes. Cool. I actually think I understand that at the moment. Must remember to use analyze-string on text nodes more.... Yes, you've got a handle on it all, and you were heading in the right direction from the start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- Upcoming XSLT/XSL-FO hands-on courses: Wellington, NZ 2009-01 Training tools: Comprehensive interactive XSLT/XPath 1.0/2.0 video Video sample lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNjJCh7Ppg Video course overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTiodiij6gE G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal 
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