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Subject: Re: Grouping by attribute
From: Jostein Austvik Jacobsen <josteinaj@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:54:43 +0200
Re:  Grouping by attribute
<quote> tags were occuring inside <p> tags, which they are not allowed
to do. Initially <quote> tags are the only thing I need to move out of
<p>. So:

<body>
  <!-- case 1 -->
  <p>text<p>

  <!-- case 2 -->
  <quote>
    text
    <p>text</p>
    text
    <span>text</span>
  </quote>

  <!-- case 3 -->

  <p><quote>text</quote></p>

  <!-- case 4 -->

  <p>
    text
    <quote>text</quote>
    text
    <span>text</quote>
    text
  </p>
</body>

should become:

<body>
  <!-- case #1 -->
  <p>text</p>

  <!-- case #2 -->
  <quote>
    text
    <p>text</p>
    text
    <span>text</span>
  </quote>

  <!-- case #3 -->
  <quote>text</quote>

  <!-- case #4 result #1 -->

  <p>text</p>
  <quote>text</quote>
  <p>
    text
    <span>text</span>
    text
  </p>
</body>

I'm not sure if the last p actually turns into three p's:

  <!-- case #4 result #2 -->
  <p>text</p>
  <p><span>text</span></p>
  <p>text</p>

Result #1 would be best, but result #2 this is also acceptable. I'll
check tomorrow what is actually happening. In any case, it validates
against the DTD used and the result is working as expected.

-Jostein

2009/10/21 Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Jostein,
>
> At 08:33 AM 10/21/2009, you wrote:
>>
>> Nice. I modified it slightly for the more complex structure of the
>> actual XML, but you essentially solved it.
>
> But ... as so often, the problem as specified is just the tip of what could
be a much larger iceberg.
>
> What if your data has
>
> <p>
>  text <span>more text</text> text
>  <quote>text</quote>
>  text
>  <quote>text</quote>
>  text
> </p>
>
> What do you want to happen then?
>
> By generating p elements only when you match "text()[parent::p]" (or,
equivalently, "p/text()"), you succeed in splitting out all the text node
children of p from their sibling elements. But your problem specification
didn't actually say this was what you wanted to do -- and the problem of
splitting only some of the elements is at least as common.
>
> For that problem, you do in fact want to use grouping. (And I think it came
up quite recently on the list).
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
>
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