Re: [xml-dev] are the regular expressions over xml structure?

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

> Unfortunately, this code is not enough. Imagine a mostly identity
> transform with such grouping. What to do with the elements "caption"
> and "table"?

In an identity transform situation, have no-op templates for caption
and table, with suitable predicates eg

<xsl:template match="caption[preceding-sibling::*[1][self::image]"/>

and then the usual way to handle them from the image template is with a mode:

<xsl:template match="image[following-sibling::*[1][self::caption]] .... ">
    (output the image markup)
    <xsl:apply-templates
select="following-sibling::*[1][self::caption]" mode="image-caption"/>

with

<xsl:template match="caption" mode="image-caption">
  ...
</


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Andrew Welch
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