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 <author>Bauman, Syd</author> rather than using the <forename> and <surname> tags. Recently I began to use the more specific format of <author><surname>Bauman</surname><forename>Syd</forename></author> ...but have run into an XSLT problem that has me stymied. As everyone knows, in bibliography output we have to deal with the case where the forename might end in a period, and where the output adds a period after the author's name. I.e., we don't want Muller, Albert C. to end up as Muller, Albert C.. To deal with this problem in my old system, I was using this kind of structure: <xsl:template match="author"> [...] <xsl:when test="substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'"> <xsl:apply-templates/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:when> </xsl:choose> In other words, in the case where the author name ends in a period, only inserting a space after, without a period. I'm now trying to create the same kind of function in the case where the <forename> tag is used, to test whether or not the forename has a period, and outputting with or without a period accordingly. After spending half a day on this, the closest I could come up with was the following code, which does not do the trick. I present it here as a continuation of the above example: <xsl:when test="substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="child::surname">
<xsl:choose>{next, in the case of the presence of a period in the forename, we output without a period} <xsl:when test="substring(forename, string-length(.)) = '.'"> <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename" /><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:when> {next, in the other case, where there is no period in the forename, we output with a period} <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename" /><xsl:text>. </xsl:text> </xsl:otherwise> I believe I must have an XPath error of some sort, but have not been able to identify it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. In case it is necessary, I include the full code below. Regards, Chuck ---------------------------------------- <xsl:template match="author"> <!-- 2003-08-01 If our author name is the same as the preceding one, output a string of dashes in its place. NB this presupposes that identical names are indeed entered identically! It might also be a wise precaution to normalize-space both the string values we are comparing. Also, the "suppression marker" perhaps ought to be in a variable rather than hard-coded as here. --> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/author = ."> <xsl:text>----. </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="preceding::biblStruct[1]/*/editor = ."> <xsl:text>----. </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/author = ."> <xsl:text>----. </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/editor = ."> <xsl:text>----. </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="preceding::bibl[1]/*/author = ."> <xsl:text>----. </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:when test="substring(., string-length(.)) = '.'"> <xsl:apply-templates/> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="child::surname"> <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="substring(forename, string-length(.)) = '.'"> <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename" /><xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:value-of select="surname" />, <xsl:value-of select="forename" /><xsl:text>. </xsl:text> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose></xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> <xsl:apply-templates/><xsl:text>. </xsl:text> </xsl:otherwise></xsl:choose> </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> </xsl:template> ------------------- A. Charles Muller University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, Faculty of Letters Center for Evolving Humanities 7-3-1 HongE , BunkyE -ku Tokyo 113-8654, Japan Office: 03-5841-3735 Web Site: Resources for East Asian Language and Thought http://www.acmuller.net <acmuller[at]jj.em-net.ne.jp> Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 Twitter @acmuller4 
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