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 Good day,
The XSL I wrote below works, but I'm looking for ways to improve my
coding style. Is this a bad way of writing style sheets? - in
particular the fact that I call "apply-templates" about a million
times.
Also, I could not get the Act numbering to be added in the Scene
title, so I left it in the Act element, where I would have liked a
Scene title like "Act 1, Scene 1" but using position() from within the
scene match gave me strange numbering.
Input XML:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<play>
<title>Tragedy of MACBETH</title>
<act>
<scene>
<stage-direction>An open place. Thunder and lightning. Enter three
Witches</stage-direction>
<speech><speaker>1ST WITCH</speaker>
<line>When shall we three meet again</line>
<line>In thunder, lightning, or in rain?</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>2ND WITCH</speaker>
<line>When the hurly-burly's done</line>
<line>When the battle's lost and won.</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>3RD WITCH</speaker>
<line>That will be ere the set of sun.</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>1ST WITCH</speaker>
<line>Where the place?</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>2ND WITCH</speaker>
<line>Upon the heath.</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>3RD WITCH</speaker>
<line>There to meet with Macbeth. <stage-action>Cat
meows.</stage-action></line>
</speech><speech><speaker>1ST WITCH</speaker>
<line>I'm coming, Graymalkin. <stage-action>Toad
croaks.</stage-action></line>
</speech><speech><speaker>2ND WITCH</speaker>
<line><stage-direction-in-dialogue>to Third
Witch</stage-direction-in-dialogue> Toad's
calling.</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>3RD WITCH</speaker>
<line>I'm coming now.</line>
</speech><speech><speaker>ALL</speaker>
<line>Fair is foul, and foul is fair;</line>
<line>Hover through the fog and filthy air. <stage-action>They
vanish.</stage-action></line>
</speech></scene>
</scene>
</act>
</play>
XSLT:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:mbp="http://www.amazon.com/amazonything"
exclude-result-prefixes="xs" version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="play">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<h1><xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates></h1>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="act">
<mbp:pagebreak />
<h1>Act <xsl:number></xsl:number></h1>
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="scene">
<mbp:section>
<h2>Scene <xsl:number></xsl:number></h2>
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</mbp:section>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="stage-direction">
<hr/>
<p><em>
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</em></p>
<hr/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="speech">
<p width="-40pt" text-indent="-40pt">
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="speaker">
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="line">
<xsl:text>
</xsl:text><xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates><br/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="stage-action">
---
<xsl:apply-templates></xsl:apply-templates>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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