RE: [xml-dev] Generating implicit wrapper element

["Harbarth, Juliane" <Juliane.Harbarth@softwareag.com>]

Hi Ferdinand,

there is an XSL list at http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/ that
is more appropriate for your question.

Anyway, the idea to pack all li's into one ul is to have a template
for the first li (match="li[1]") that introduces both the <ul> and the 
</ul> tag and includes all li's in between using the following-sibling 
axis. Another template is needed to ignore the non-first li's.

Regards,
Juliane.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferdinand Soethe [mailto:xml-dev@soethe.net] 
Sent: Dienstag, 30. August 2005 14:56
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Generating implicit wrapper element


I have an XML-document with paragraphs and list items that have no
wrapper element around each list.

Something like this:

<par>my first para</par>
<par>second para</par>
<li>first list item of first list</li>
<li>second list item of first list</li>
<li>third list item of first list</li>
<par>third para</par>
<li>first list item of second list</li>
<par>fourth para</par>
<li>first list item of third list</li>
<li>second list item of third list</li>

In my transformation I would like to add these implicit wrapper element
around each of the list to get something like

<p>my first para</p>
<p>second para</p>
<ul>
<li>first list item of first list</li>
<li>second list item of first list</li>
<li>third list item of first list</li>
</ul>
<p>third para</p>
<ul>
<li>first list item of second list</li>
</ul>
<p>fourth para</p>
<ul>
<li>first list item of third list</li>
<li>second list item of third list</li>
</ul>

My attempt to solve this with

<xsl:template match="Aufzaehlungspunkt">
    
  <xsl:if test="not(preceding-sibling::li)">
    <ul>
  </xsl:if>
  
  <li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>

  <xsl:if test="not(following-sibling::li)">
    </ul>
  </xsl:if>

</xsl:template>

ran into two separate problems:

1. I'm not allowed to use <ul> without the matching </ul> (even though
   that is in a separate if-branch below.

2. The preceding-sibling and following-sibling-axes are only true when
   dealing with the very first and the very last <li> in the document.
   So rather than meaning 'previous element is not <li>' the meaning
   'there is no more previous <li>-element in this document'.

Any ideas how to solve these problems with XML?

Oh, btw. I saw the solution suggested some years ago

<officers>
<xsl:for-each select='/doc/person[@er="officer"]'>
<person><xsl:value-of select='.'/></person> </xsl:for-each> </officers>

<xsl:for-each select='/doc/person[not(@er="officer")]'>
<person><xsl:value-of select='.'/></person> </xsl:for-each>

</perslist>
 </xsl:template>

 but this doesn't seem to be an option since I'm not using the
procedural style of processing my document.

 Thanks for any input,

 --
 Ferdinand

--
Ferdinand Soethe


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