Re: That's a wrap!

On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:46:53PM -0000, Charles O'Connor coconnor@xxxxxxxxxxxx scripsit:
> How do I exclude them? A bonus would be to know how to preserve the
> punctuation and spaces between the <string-name> (and <collab> and
> <etal>) elements.

Well, you don't really have a good use case for the identity template
here; you'd be trying to distinguish text elements by relative position.
It looks like what you've got is a grouping problem; you want to get rid
of the label element, group up everything before a certain element, and
have everything else stay the same.

If the example displays a consistent pattern -- you want everything in
front of the article-title to wind up in the person-group --

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    exclude-result-prefixes="xs"
    version="2.0">
    <xsl:variable as="element(ref)" name="example">
        <ref id="r2">
            <label>2.</label>
            <mixed-citation publication-type="journal"><string-name name-style="western"><surname>Selvarajah</surname>
                    <given-names>S</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"><surname>Hammond</surname>
                    <given-names>ER</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"><surname>Haider</surname>
                    <given-names>AH</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"><surname>Abularrage</surname>
                    <given-names>CJ</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"><surname>Becker</surname>
                    <given-names>D</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"><surname>Dhiman</surname>
                    <given-names>N</given-names></string-name>, <etal>et al.</etal>
                <article-title>The burden of acute traumatic spinal cord injury among adults in the United States: an update.</article-title>
                <source>J Neurotrauma</source>
                <year>2014</year>;<volume>31</volume>(<issue>3</issue>):<fpage>228</fpage>-<lpage>38</lpage>.</mixed-citation>
        </ref>
    </xsl:variable>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="$example"/>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="node() | @*">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="node() | @*"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="label">
        <!-- drop this element -->
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="mixed-citation">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
            <person-group>
                <xsl:sequence select="node()[following-sibling::article-title]"/>
            </person-group>
            <xsl:sequence select="node()[self::article-title or preceding-sibling::article-title]"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


gives me
<ref id="r2">
    <mixed-citation publication-type="journal"><person-group><string-name name-style="western"><surname>Selvarajah</surname><given-names>S</given-names></string-name>,
                <string-name name-style="western"><surname>Hammond</surname><given-names>ER</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"
                    ><surname>Haider</surname><given-names>AH</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"
                    ><surname>Abularrage</surname><given-names>CJ</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"
                    ><surname>Becker</surname><given-names>D</given-names></string-name>, <string-name name-style="western"
                    ><surname>Dhiman</surname><given-names>N</given-names></string-name>, <etal>et al.</etal></person-group><article-title>The burden of acute traumatic
            spinal cord injury among adults in the United States: an update.</article-title><source>J
            Neurotrauma</source><year>2014</year>;<volume>31</volume>(<issue>3</issue>):<fpage>228</fpage>-<lpage>38</lpage>.</mixed-citation>
</ref>


If you need to do other processing the "xsl:sequence" can be
"xsl:apply-templates".

-- Graydon