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Re: Overlapping structures
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Overlapping structures
- From: Jörg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:34:26 +0200
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Without Perl you can get it with the not very nice solution
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping><z></xsl:text>
and analogue the second
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping></z></xsl:text>
Joerg
Stuart Brown wrote:
> I have an XML document with two overlapping structures. To get round this,
> for one of the structures I use empty "start" and "end" tags as follows:
>
> <a>I said <z.start/>I will watch my ways</a>
> <a><x/>and keep my tongue from sin<z.end/></a>
>
> In my XSL I want to test, from any node <z.start/> if there is the
> additional empty element <x/> before the next <z.end/> (i.e. if the
> imaginary "z" element "contains" x). I have not found any way I can achieve
> this -- any pointers please?
>
> Secondly, if I want to invert the structures, so that the "a" tags become
> the imaginary empty tags and the z tags "real" elements, I am currently
> cheating to overcome the well-formed constraint as follows (ignoring the x
> element above):
>
> <xsl:template match="a">
> <a.start/><xsl:apply-templates/><a.end/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="z.start">
> <z>!!DELETE_CLOSE_TAG</z>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="z.end">
> <z>!!DELETE_OPEN_TAG</z>
> </xsl:template>
>
> thus generating:
>
> <a.start/>I said <z>!!DELETE_CLOSE_TAG</z>I will watch my ways<a.end/>
> <a.start/>and keep my tongue from sin<z>!!DELETE_OPEN_TAG</z><a.end/>
>
> and then running a simple Perl script to get rid of the unwanted tags amd
> text to result in:
>
> <a.start/>I said <z>I will watch my ways<a.end/>
> <a.start/>and keep my tongue from sin</z><a.end/>
>
> However, I would far rather handle this entirely within the XSL stylesheet.
> Is there any way I can cheat using CDATA sections to overcome the
> well-formed constraint and directly match <z> to <z.start/> and </z> to
> <z.end/>?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
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