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Re: Kosher XSLT 3.0 numbering solution?
On 01.09.2016 15:51, David Sewell dsewell@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have a numbering task that is trivially easy to handle using an XSLT
extension that permits modification of global variables (such as
saxon:assign) but which is harder to accomplish via pure XSLT. I don't
*need* to accomplish this as I have code that works fine, but I'm just
curious about alternate solutions.
I have an XML file representing the contents of a printed book. I need
to add page break indicators that carry the page numeration, e.g. <pb
n="51"/>. Because I'm lazy, I just want to plug in empty markers and
then run a script to add the numeration.
This would be a straightforward job for xsl:number if all pagination was
sequential. However, parts of the book are commented out, so there may
be a page jump from say page 11 to page 30. In a case like that, I will
insert <pb n="30"/> to provide a hard-coded indication of the number.
That makes use of xsl:number more complicated. The solution via updates
to a global variable is simple, along the lines of
<xsl:variable name="bodyPageNo" select="0" as="xs:integer"
saxon:assignable="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="pb">
<xsl:variable name="pageNumber">
<saxon:assign name="bodyPageNo" select="
if (@n) then xs:integer(@n) else $bodyPageNo + 1
"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$bodyPageNo"/>
</xsl:variable>
[etc.]
If I avoid saxon:assign, I don't see any way around some moderately
messy brute-force calculation in the <pb> template to identify the
closest preceding <pb> element with an @n value (if any), and use that
value plus the number of intervening <pb> elements to assign a
numeration to the current element. Does anything jump out as a more
elegant approach?
I wonder, given XSLT 3.0 as the target, whether the above does not
translate directly into an accumulator e.g.
<xsl:accumulator name="bodyPageNo" as="xs:integer" initial-value="0">
<xsl:accumulator-rule match="pb" select="if (@n) then xs:integer(@n)
else $value + 1"/>
</xsl:accumulator>
then elsewhere you can use
accumulator-before('bodyPageNo')
respectively
accumulator-after('bodyPageNo')
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