Re: [xsl] Overlapping structures

[Jörg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

Without Perl you can get it with the not very nice solution

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&lt;z&gt;</xsl:text>

and analogue the second

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&lt;/z&gt;</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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> 
> 
> 


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