[XSLT 1.1] xsl:document

[Peter Gerstbach]

Hello,

I need help on the new xsl:document element!
I'm using XSLT version 1.1 to be able to use the <xsl:document> element, because I need more than 1 output files. I'm using Saxon 6.5.3

My problem is the following. My XML document is a OpenOffice-document. There are headers and text underneath. But unfortunately the text elements are not nested in the header elements.
See this simple example:

<h>header 1</h>
<p>text</p>
<p>text</p>
<h>header 2</h>
<p>once more text</p>
<p>and so on</p>

Now I have the folowing Problem. I want to put each header with all subsequent text in one seperate file. To write into a new file I have to use the "document" element as follows:

<xsl:document href="file.txt">
blahblah
</xsl:document>

So I have to write the XSLT like that:

<xsl:for-each select="h">
<xsl:document href="file.txt">
Include headers and text here...
</xsl:document>
</xsl:for-each>

But this pull-based approach is very frustrating for a very big text document. Does anybody know how to handle this in a push-based way with templates?

Thanks a lot!
Peter

P.S: I crossposted this question in german on de.comp.text.xml

 

[David Carlisle]

Hello,

I need help on the new xsl:document element!

Note there will never be an xsl:document element in XSL XSL 1.1 was a working draft only and has been explictly withdrawn by the working group (some years ago now) and will not progress to REC status. XSLT2 drafts have a similar element but it's called (at the moment) xsl:result-document. saxon 8 implements the xslt2 drafts.

I'm using XSLT version 1.1 to be able to use the <xsl:document> element, because I need more than 1 output files. I'm using Saxon 6.5.3

My problem is the following. My XML document is a OpenOffice-document. There are headers and text underneath. But unfortunately the text elements are not nested in the header elements.
See this simple example:

<h>header 1</h>
<p>text</p>
<p>text</p>
<h>header 2</h>
<p>once more text</p>
<p>and so on</p>

Now I have the folowing Problem. I want to put each header with all subsequent text in one seperate file. To write into a new file I have to use the "document" element as follows:

<xsl:document href="file.txt">
blahblah
</xsl:document>

So I have to write the XSLT like that:

<xsl:for-each select="h">
<xsl:document href="file.txt">
Include headers and text here...
</xsl:document>
</xsl:for-each>

But this pull-based approach is very frustrating for a very big text document. Does anybody know how to handle this in a push-based way with templates?

xslt2 grouping constructs would help here but in xslt1 you can use any of the standard grouping techniques, for example I think that you want every node up to but not including the next h so that would be

<xsl:for-each select="h">
<xsl:document href="file-{position}.txt">
<xsl:variable name="n" select="count(following-sibling::h)"/> <xsl:apply-templates select=".|following-sibling::node[count(following-sibling::h)=$n]"/> </xsl:document> </xsl:for-each>

Then you just need templates for uour elements doing whatever transform you require. each section will appear in file-1.txt file-2.txt etc.

David

 

[Peter Gerstbach]

Note there will never be an xsl:document element in XSL XSL 1.1 was a working draft only and has been explictly withdrawn by the working group (some years ago now) and will not progress to REC status. XSLT2 drafts have a similar element but it's called (at the moment) xsl:result-document. saxon 8 implements the xslt2 drafts.

Ok, thank you, I will give Saxon 8 a try!

xslt2 grouping constructs would help here but in xslt1 you can use any of the standard grouping techniques, for example I think that you want every node up to but not including the next h so that would be

<xsl:for-each select="h">
<xsl:document href="file-{position}.txt">
<xsl:variable name="n" select="count(following-sibling::h)"/> <xsl:apply-templates select=".|following-sibling::node[count(following-sibling::h)=$n]"/> </xsl:document> </xsl:for-each>

Yes, that's it. I was looking for a solution like this. Thanks!

Peter